Working on a remote box with sshfs
I needed to edit numerous files today on a remote linux box. Normally, I would ssh in and use vi. However, I had to edit ruby/rhtml files and I wanted a fami...
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Useful unix tricks
Update (2/20/09): Check out Useful unix tricks – part 2, Useful unix tricks – part 3 and Useful unix tricks – part 4
Another solution for disconnected unit tests
Update (9/5/07): My project has since switched over to UnitRecord for the reasons outlined by Dan Manges.
Ruby’s frustrating use of cryptic variables
One thing that really bothers me about ruby is its use of cryptic variables such as $: and $?. For example:
Rails does not support sub-second precision with Oracle
We recently discovered that Rails maps a :timestamp in a migration file to an Oracle DATE instead of a TIMESTAMP. DATE types only have second precision, not ...