Smilies in Rails using BBCodeizer

I’ve already described how to enable support for Smilies in Rails using RedCloth. If you want to use BBCodeizer instead of RedCloth (Textile), here’s how to do it. We need to extend the BBCodeizer class. We could do this by creating a file in our /lib directory (e.g. my_string.rb), which has to be included [...]

Move Wubi installation (Ubuntu on Windows) to a native Ubuntu system

There’s a tool called LVPM which could do the move, but there are sometimes problems with it. So I recommend to use a faster and safer way to do it – with the wubi-move-to-partition script:

Boot into your Wubi installation.
Open a shell and do a:
wget “https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=wubi-move-to-partition”
Install and run gparted:
sudo apt-get install gparted
sudo gparted
Now create a swap [...]


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