20 5 / 2013
Rails Girls: # RailsGirls Summer of Code: Student application now open!
We’re extremely excited to announce that the RailsGirls Summer of Code student application is now open!
The Berlin team, especially the incredible Rails Girls Hero Sven from Travis CI have been working unimaginably hard to bring this to you. Big ups!!
RailsGirls Summer of Code is a…
15 8 / 2012
giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Git Landscaping
I recently worked on a project with 60+ old feature branches. Most of them had been merged into
masterand were subsequently abandoned. We decided we wanted to clean up a bit, and git made that easy. Assuming your main branch is namedmaster, and the remote you are cleaning up is calledorigin:
29 5 / 2012
23 5 / 2012
Badass JavaScript: The JSConf 2012 videos are being released!
Well the title pretty much says it all, but I thought I’d let everyone know that the JSConf 2012 videos are beginning to be released. JSConf is one of the premier JavaScript conferences that always sells out within a few seconds, so if you didn’t make it this year, you’re in luck because…
22 5 / 2012
Fix for (ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII)
I was getting the following error whenever I tried to deploy with Capistrano:
** [deploy:update_code] exception while rolling back: Capistrano::ConnectionError, connection failed for: 10.180.82.250 (ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII) connection failed for: 10.180.82.250 (ArgumentError: invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII)
But after researching I found out that the problem was on some gem’s file and the fix is pretty simple, all you need to do is:
$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$ export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
$ bundle
The lines above will force the file system to use UTF-8 and bundle will use UTF-8 for all the gems.
Update: Is better to add the export properties above to your ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.zshrc) otherwise you will have to do the above steps whenever you want to bundle.
27 3 / 2012
