.desktop files define launchers for applications installed on your machine. They specify the command that will be executed when launched, icons, titles, etc. There are two directories in which these files are stored:

# basic installation
/usr/share/applications

# installed via snap
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/

Version 2.3.0 of our gem Cucumber Factory has been released.

• Added a step to add file objects to a model:

  Given there is a user with the avatar file:"path/to/avatar.jpg"
  

  Both single and double quotes are supported.

The sidekiq-rate-limiter gem allows rate-limiting Sidekiq jobs and works like a charm. However, it needs to be integrated on a per-worker basis.

If you want to limit a whole queue instead, and if your requirements are simple enough, you can do it via a Sidekiq middleware yourself.

Here is an example that limits concurrency of the "mailers" queue to 1. It uses a database mutex via the [with_advisory_lock](https://github.com/ClosureTree/wit...

Generated Photos produces AI-generated face images.

This is useful for UI mockups where you don't want to show real people or copyrighted stock photography.

If you're using the webdrivers gem and VCR together, depending on your configuration, VCR will yell at you regulary.
The webdrivers gem tries to update your webdrivers on your local machine. To do so, it checks the internet for newer versions, firing an HTTP-request to e.g. https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com

You can "fix" this in multiple ways:

1. Update your drivers on your machine with
   RAILS_ENV=test rake webdrivers:chromedriver:update

2. Ignore the driver update-URL in your ...

If a model inherits from others or uses many concerns / traits, it might be hard to see in the code which validators it has.
But fortunately there's a method for that:

irb(main):002:0> pp UserGroup.validators
[#<ActiveModel::Validations::InclusionValidator:0x00007f55efff97a8
  @attributes=[:deleted],
  @delimiter=[true, false],
  @options={:in=>[true, false], :allow_nil=>false}>,
 #<ActiveModel::Validations::InclusionValidator:0x00007f55f15748d0
  @attributes=[:cancelled],
  @delimiter=[true, false],
  @options={:in=>[true, false], ...

Version 2.2.0 of our gem Cucumber Factory has been released.

• A step was added that allows modifying existing records with a similar syntax to creating new records:

  (Given "Bob" is a user)
    And "Bob" has the email "foo@bar.com" and is subscribed
  

  • This step will also work with doc strings or tables:

  (Given "Bob" is a user)
    And the user above has these attributes:
    | name  | Bob         |
    | email | foo@bar.com | 
  

Never ever declare your associations with a string, especially when doing metaprogramming. A common mistake is something like

# WRONG
class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
  %w[main sub].each do |type|
    belongs_to "#{type}_title"
  end
end

   
# RIGHT
class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
  %w[main sub].each do |type|
    belongs_to :"#{type}_title"
  end
end

Always convert to a symbol, otherwise you'll have [all](/makandra/4177-bugfix-rails-does-not-find-an-association-when-it-is-named-w...

Do not pass times to date attributes. Always convert times to dates when your application uses time zones.

Background

A time-zoned Time attribute on a Rails record is converted to UTC using to_s(:db) to be stored, and converted back into the correct time zone when the record is loaded from the database. So when you are not on UTC, time objects will be converted as follows.

>> Time.current
=> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:56:03 CET +01:00
>> Time.current.to_s(:db)
=> "2013-03-15 10:56:03" # This is now UTC

Problem

That will...

When logging in Rails, you can use the log_tags configuration option to add extra information to each line, like :request_id or :subdomain. However, those are only valid inside a request context and have no effect when your application is logging from inside a Sidekiq process.
This includes custom as well as any framework logs, like query logging from ActiveRecord.

Since Sidekiq Workers run inside threads of a single process, running multiple jobs in...

ActiveRecord provides the ids method to pluck ids from a scope, but what if you need to pluck Global IDs?

While you could just call map(&:to_global_id) on your scope, this approach would instantiate each record just to do that. When you have many records, this will at the very least be slow.

Here is a method that does it for you efficiently. It respects Single Table Inheritance (STI).
Put it in your project's ApplicationRecord to make it available on all models.

class ApplicationRecord
  ...

If you want to get the path of a file relative to another, you can use the expand_path method with either the constant __FILE__ or the method __dir__. Read this card for more information about __FILE__ and __dir__.

Example

Structure:

.
├── bin
│   ├── format_changelog
├── CHANGELOG.md

bin/format_changelog:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

changelog_path = ? # How to get the path to ../CHANGELOG.md independent of the working dir of the caller
changelog = File.read(changelog_path)

# ... further actions h...

Development

Google Chrome disables Notifications for insecure origins (i.e. those using HTTP). Only http://localhost is considered secure.

If you need to use browser notifications on other origins, you can set a flag: chrome://flags/#unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure. Enable the flag and add your origins. Remember that "origin" refers to the combination of protocol+hostname+port, e.g. "http://example.com:8088".

To find a version containing the regular expression foo in the history of any branch:

git grep foo $(git rev-list --all)

You may also limit the search to a file extension, e.g. Ruby files (.rb) like this:

git grep foo $(git rev-list --all) -- *.rb