We forked craken today and fixed one of the issues we had with new (>0.8.7) rake versions. The craken:install...

Here is a way to create a duplicate of one database, with all its tables and their data, under a...

Random list of useful git commands for advanced users. I found some of them useful.

The state_machine gem comes with a rake task that lets you generate PNG graphs from any model using state...

Whenever Firefox updates, all your Cucumber features that use Selenium break. This is annoying. In order to remedy this, version...

Observed on Rails 2.3 and machinist 1.0.6 Like the title says, when you define the method empty? like in the...

Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating...

These methods are available to you: page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.accept page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.dismiss page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.text # the confirmation text Spreewald gives you steps like these:

Simple: Tell the application controller how to handle exceptions, here a RecordNotFound error. Do this with the following line: # application_controller.rb...

Ever wondered how Rails talks to itself in a Cucumber feature? In Rails 3 you can do it like this...

Let's say you have an Explorer window showing a directory and want a cmd terminal to be opened there...

When writing a piece of reusable code, you sometimes need to have separate code for Rails 2 and Rails 3...

If you have any class which requires access to some path methods generated by your routes. Even though you could...

DeaDBeeF is one of the better music players for Linux. You can find installation instructions here.

While it might seem trivial to implement an invoice that sums up items and shows net, gross and vat totals...

You've been there: A form cannot be submitted, but you don't see a validation error because the field...

Calling Time#utc, Time#gmt or Time#localtime will not create a converted copy. Instead these methods modify the receiving...

Note that converting from RGB to CMYK will usually degrade your colors because no exact mapping is possible. Anyway, this...

Linux provides a fix number of filesystem watches. If you have some greedy daemon (like dropbox) running, chances are it...

Note that if you plan to downgrade Firefox because your Selenium tests broke after a Firefox upgrade, there is a...

Note that if you plan to freeze your Firefox versions because your Selenium tests break whenever Firefox updates, there is...

Sometimes the Rails helper #distance_of_time_in_words is using too much magic. When you need a time difference...

Pdfposter is a Python script that allows to convert large PDFs into a PDF with multiple pages that can be...