Monthly Archives: May 2011

configuring TeamCity to run rails projects

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In our team we are very happy users of RubyMine, by JetBrains. Now JetBrains also has a continuous integration server, called TeamCity, and it is also capable to run rails rake tasks. Installing TeamCity is close to a non-operation, as described on their website. Just download the package, extract, and run bin/runAll.sh start. Then you [...]

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testing image_tag using rspec2 and rails3

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When testing your helpers, you might want to test if your call to image_tag generates the correct output. Unfortunately, in Rails, for caching purposes, the asset tag is added which makes testing it somewhat unreliable. Luckily there is an easy way around that. If you define the environment variable RAILS_ASSET_ID, that is used instead of [...]

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upgrading to Ubunty 11.04: nvidia troubles

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When upgrading my development machine to Ubunty 11.04, Natty Narwal, I also had a problem with nvidia drivers, and I want to list all possible solutions to fix that. First the symptoms: my Ubuntu would boot up, but the screen would just turn black. When booting in failsafeX it would work, but not with Unity [...]

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