One problem I was having, though, is that the current version of VirtualBox (in this exact moment I’m using 4.1.10) uses Command + R as a keyboard shortcut to reset the guest operating system. As you may know if you too use a Mac, this is also the combination of keys used to refresh a page in most browsers in Mac OS X. Since I keep switching between Windows and Mac throughout the day, my brain was having a difficult time remembering this difference, and I kept rebooting Windows by mistake.

Since I couldn’t find a solution, I decided to post a feature request in the VirtualBox Community website, asking for a feature that allows the users to change keyboard shortcuts. Before posting, though, I decided to investigate a little more, and ended up find a fix! Turns out it’s quite easy.

So, here it is what you have to do to stop this annoyance:

1) Under VirtualBox / Preferences, change the Host Key to something other than the left Cmd key (I used the right Option key);

2) In Windows, install SharpKeys and use it to map the Cmd key to the Ctrl key (or whatever other key you want);

3) ???

4) Profit!

No route matches “/rails/info/properties”

This was happening because by default Passenger sets the RAILS_ENV to production. The solution was to set it to development. This can be done in a couple of ways, but I decided to add “RailsEnv development” to the Apache configuration file, inside de definition of the app’s virtual host.

1) Create a textfile (using Notepad or another plain text editor) with the following text:

DirectShowSource(“video-filename.mkv”)

Obviously replacing “video-filename” with the name of the MKV video you want to open. Give any name to the text file, but save it with the .avs extension, instead of the default .txt.

2) Open the .avs file you just created in VirtualDub. Make sure to have the video file in the same directory as the .avs.

Source

Install and enable both modules, then enable the Replace Tokens filter in the desired input format. This is under Configuration / Input Formats.

To add the custom tokens, go to Structure / Custom tokens. If you create a token named Foobar, the custom token will be something like [custom:foobar].