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  1. Using GDB to Inspect a Running Ruby Process

    This job shouldn’t be taking this long! That’s not a great thing to have...

    Jon Yurek
    April 5, 2013
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Unix
  2. Foreman as Process Manager

    Web application development/production parity can be improved by defining...

    Dan Croak
    January 9, 2013
    • Unix
  3. Trail Map

    How do I learn Ruby on Rails? Vim? Test-Driven Development? Someone asks...

    Dan Croak
    May 29, 2012
    • News
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    • Git
    • Ruby
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    • PostgreSQL
    • Testing
    • Unix
    • Vim
  4. How To Use Arguments In a Rake Task

    I came across this today. You can write Rake tasks that accept arguments,...

    Chad Pytel
    February 23, 2012
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Unix
  5. Bracket Expansion

    Let’s say you want to update capybara and capybara-webkit. You’d normally...

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    February 21, 2012
    • Unix
  6. Run a Command Every Time You Change Directories in zsh

    You can run a command every time you change directories in zsh with the chpwd...

    Josh Clayton
    February 16, 2012
    • Unix
  7. capybara-webkit doesn't like #fork

    Tips for using capybara-webkit with cucumber suites and forking.

    Jon Yurek
    October 13, 2011
    • Web
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    • Unix
    • JavaScript
    • Ruby
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    • Capybara Webkit
  8. cd'ing to frequently-used directories in ZSH

    Josh just dropped some sweet, sweet ZSH knowledge. I spend a lot of time in...

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    September 30, 2011
    • Unix
  9. Font Battle 2011

    A recent straw poll of text editor fonts at thoughtbot found these results....

    Nick Quaranto
    August 15, 2011
    • Design
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    • Vim
    • Unix
  10. Keeping A GitHub Fork Updated

    A git guide on how to keep your GitHub forks updated with its upstream.

    Dan Croak
    May 2, 2011
    • Git
    • Unix
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