Occasionally, you have to talk to APIs via HTTPS that use a custom certificate or a misconfigured certificate chain (like missing an intermediate certificate).

Using RestClient will then raise RestClient::SSLCertificateNotVerified errors, or wh...

Webpack is the future. We're using it in our latest Rails applications.

For tests, we want to compile assets like for production.
For parallel tests, we want to avoid 8 workers compiling the same files at the same time.
When assets did not change...

Summary

• We want to move away from jQuery in future projects
• Motivations are performance, bundle size and general trends for the web platform.
• The native DOM API is much nicer than it used to be, and we can polyfill the missing pieces
• Un...

When you generate a URL in a mailer view, ActionMailer will raise an error unless you previously configured it which hostname to use.

There are t...

Note: Making a reverse proxy with nginx is much more straightforward.

A reverse proxy is a "man ...

Consider you have a website vhost listening to www.example.com, redirecting all incoming requests that do not talk about the configured hostname (this is often used to redirect users to http://www.example.com when entering only `http://example...

A flaky test is a test that is often green, but sometimes red. It may only fail on some PCs, or only when the entire test suite is run.

There are many causes for flaky...

Basic configuration

Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git.

[user]
  name = Your Name
  email = your.name@domain.com

[branch]
  sort = -committerdate
[color]
   ui = auto
[color "bra...

You configured authentication in your Apache configuration that requires username and password but you want a single IP address, host or network to allow access without entering credentials you can use the code below.

To allow a network you can u...