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Figuring out what Rails Guide to edit next
edit Posted by Jason Noble on Sunday November 13, 2011 at 09:41AM

I've been contributing to Rails lately by going through the Rails Guides and making sure they're up to date.

How do I go about finding a guide that hasn't been updated in a while?

Here's what I came up with:

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Using git bisect to find where something broke
edit Posted by Jason Noble on Monday May 09, 2011 at 03:25PM

We recently had an issue where our CI build broke over the weekend.

We used git bisect to figure out where the problem occurred.

We wrote a cucumber feature (feature/path/to/is_it_fixed.feature) that worked on Friday and fails today.

We start by setting up git bisect:

git bisect GOOD BAD

Where GOOD is the git SHA from last Friday and BAD is this morning's SHA.