Problem

Here's one that took me a surprising amount of digging to find an answer deep in a lone comment in a thread.

You're running your chrome/chromedriver-driven test suite and start getting mysterious errors, which might be related to problems that were previously solved by setting particular options. After some . . .

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Problem

Sometimes after rebasing and force pushing, github will show commits in a different order from what you expect.

Solution

git rebase -i master --exec 'git commit --amend --date="$(date -R)"' 
git push --force origin my-branch

If I remember correctly, some solutions to this problem . . .

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Books

• Confident Ruby https://shiprise.dpdcart.com/
• Objects on Rails https://shiprise.dpdcart.com/
• Working With UNIX Processes https://www.jstorimer.com/pages/books
• Working With Ruby Threads https://www.jstorimer.com/pages/books
• https://computationbook.com
• Don’t Make Me Think http://sensible.com/dmmt.html . . .

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git clone --mirror old-remote-url
cd repo.git
git push --mirror new-remote-url

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Here's what I recently put together so I could measure some Sidekiq behavior with Librato. This code makes use of the librato-metrics gem.

Measure the time taken to perform each type of job

I put this in my lib directory:

class SidekiqMetrics
 def call(worker, msg, queue)
 librato_queue = Librato::Metrics:: . . .

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git checkout branch-you-are-working-on
git rebase --onto branch-you-want-it-based-on branch-it-is-based-on

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