ruby
Whenever I'm looking at backtraces, logs, or failing tests in the terminal, I often need to open one of those files in my text editor. It was previously a semi-arduous process that involved highlighting, copying, pasting and the return key. Now, all I need to do is double-click
ruby
Every Rails developer has probably seen the following error: Could not find <gem> in any of the sources Run `bundle install` to install missing gems. This happens if you or someone else adds a gem to your Gemfile, or if a gem version is updated in Gemfile.lock,
bash
If you often make changes to your ~/.bashrc, you might be sick of typing source ~/.bashrc after every change. It can also be annoying when you switch to a different tab in your terminal, but your new aliases or functions aren't available until you type source ~/.bashrc. While
linux
I'm saving a little space in my terminal by replacing my username and group (ndbroadbent) with a single symbol. I'm doing this in my prompt, as well as in the output of ls commands: (My laptop's hostname is also represented by a symbol.) For
ruby
A day in the life of a Rails developer will usually involve a few git pulls, bundle installs, and switching between different projects. I thought it would be great if my projects could be automatically kept up-to-date, so that I don't have to spend too much time updating
administration
GitHub is a great way to manage code for an open source project, but it doesn't provide any way to send a message to all of your watchers. This can be necessary whenever you make certain changes to your application. For example, I recently merged a pull request
linux
You might be familiar with the cron job scheduler, which is great for repeating tasks. But when you want to schedule a command to only run once in the future, the at command is what you are looking for. In my case, I was updating a plugin for our Thoughtworks
ruby
Update: I've updated the build status checking script, because updating all branches was taking too long (over 20 minutes.) Now it performs frequent updates for the current branch, and only periodic updates for all branches. Travis CI is a distributed continuous integration service for the open source community,
git
When you're creating logos or icons for a project that uses git, have you ever wondered where you should store those .psd or .xcf files? Do you commit all of your raw design files, or does it put you off that any changes to those files will bloat
git
SCM Breeze is a set of shell scripts (for bash and zsh) that make it easier to use git. It integrates with your shell to give you numbered file shortcuts, a repository index with tab completion, and a community driven collection of useful SCM functions. Disclaimer: git is currently the
ubuntu
Sometimes you just want to copy something from your terminal and paste it somewhere else. You might have heard of a Linux program called xclip, which provides a command line interface to X selections. However, xclip's default selection isn't the clipboard, and typing xclip -selection c
bash
I have a script that runs a search and replace on a git status. I recently found out how to do git config color.status always, so that git status gives color codes to my functions. However, this broke the substitution, and it took me a while to figure it
bash
Sometimes it's nice to add color output to your bash scripts. Here's a small 'color index' reference script for your .bashrc, for when you want to add a bit of color to your scripts. Save the following script somewhere in your PATH (e.g.
scripts
NOTE: This is only for jailbroken iPhones. I love finding awesome wallpapers on reddit. My Ubuntu desktop cycles through my wallpaper collection with a program called Cortina, and I wanted my iPhone to do the same. So I wrote a very simple script and a launchd plist that runs the
bash
When you SSH into your iPhone, or if you use MobileTerminal, you might want to use some of the aliases or functions that you're used to. To do this: 1. Create and edit your ".bashrc" file at "/var/root/.bashrc" 2. Add the following
bash
Here's a simple function to add to your shell if you ever want to replace a string in multiple files at once. It ignores everything in .git, otherwise you get 'bad index file sha1 signature' errors. function gsed () { if [ -z "$3" ] then echo "