CS8

If you’re someone who has multiple  git branches on a project and seem to always do git branch to check which branch you’re in. Then here’s how you can make your bash aware of a git branch. Well, I’m not sure if this works on others, but it sure does works in my Ubuntu Hardy. [...]

The beauty of git is there is no one true way to do it. Here’s how the Rails Frameworks maintainers uses git. http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/sending-patches And here’s a wonderful video from Railscast on how to contribute to Rails. http://railscasts.com/episodes/113

So , after doing a little bit of homework, this is how I’m gonna do it. I’ll try the forking approach. Assuming that the repo is forked from a repo in github.Taken from Dr Nic’s website http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/02/03/using-git-within-a-team/ Forking is to clone an entire remote repository into another remote repository. Now you have two repositories based [...]

I had to make sure my git branch is updated with my master. So at my master branch git pull master Next, I switched to my branch named ‘feature_super_tag’. git checkout feature_super_tag and then git rebase master A good explanation of what a rebase does is from these two blogs: http://jbowes.dangerouslyinc.com/2007/01/26/git-rebase-keeping-your-branches-current/ http://adam.blog.heroku.com/past/2008/6/30/rebasing_is_editing_commits/ Note: It’s a [...]

Assume you have a git branch named experimental and you would like to push it to your remote repository. Then just do git push origin experimental Now other people can see the remote branch if they do git branch -r. Perhaps they should do a git pull first before the git branch -r. This should [...]

Pheww.. all test pass after the latest ruby package updates from the ubuntu team. I was a little worried reading the comments from the official Rails site. From the comments, a lot of people are experiencing problems after using the patch provided by the official Ruby team. However, today I received an update notification on [...]

I was wondering how to keep the layouts in my rails application code DRY – I was close to the point of kicking myself for having to make changes to all my layouts whenever something standard changed – so i researched online and found the above diagram by Matt McCray in his blog. I used [...]

A label method is introduced in Rails 2.1. The following code: [sourcecode language="html"] < % form_for (@post) do |f| %> < %= f.label :title %> #Code truncated for clarity < % end %> [/sourcecode] Would generate the following HTML: [sourcecode language="html"] Title [/sourcecode] If your label contains a css class and if you need another [...]

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I don’t get it why some people write this %(Unverified email address. Please check your email for your activation code.) instead of this “Unverified email address. Please check your email for your activation code.” Is it that hard to put those double quote?