Invoking a Rake Multitask in a loop
I am running selenium tests that I launch using a rake task. Recently I wanted to run a bunch on them concurrently every so often. The problem I ran into […]
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Building and installing a patched ubuntu kernel for the surface pro 3
Some of you have been asking for this tutorial so I hope this is easy to follow. I am sort of repeating the instructions here Assumptions You have followed the […]
Dual boot Gnome Ubuntu 15.04 on a Surface Pro 3
update 6: I have rolled a new kernel surface-pro-3-linux-kernel-4.2.0-34.40 Good news everyone! the latest version of Ubuntu 15.04 works really good with the Surface Pro 3 Things that immediately work […]
Guanacotoon, I never thought I would see the day
Most of us that live in the US are familiar with a web comic. We enjoy great quality, fairly regular updates and great diversity. This American experiment is spreading around […]
Using Rails 4 engine/plugin helpers across your entire app
Sometimes you need your rails engine/plugins helpers to work across the host app. An example of this is my Gem Paginas. I provide helper methods to generate menu links, since […]
Getting tinymce-rails to play nice in Rails 4 and Turbolinks
I am using the plugin on a project and I kept having problems loading the editor on for the second time. The problems materialized in two different ways. On first […]
TIL some awesome ActiveRecord behaviors in Rails
So I started using rails about 3 months ago and it has been awesome. ActiveRecords was my first experience using ORM. I wish I had started using this a long […]