Capybara has a variety of finder methods like find_button to help you look up DOM elements. There are also...
Maintaining larger projects makes it more difficult to balance refactoring and upgrade tasks according to its actual value. Consider to...
When you use native smooth scrolling there is no built-in method to detect the end of the scrolling animation...
By default most exceptions in Rails will render a 500 error page and will create a new issue in your...
...same before you set a Rails.application.config.time_zone. Example User.find(123).created_at # => 2023-04-19 13:24:42.90857 +0200 User.connection.select_values("SELECT CAST(updated_at as text) FROM users WHERE...
# => ["2023-04-19 13:24:42.90857"] If those values are not the same, you will corrupt your data by configuring a time zone...
Rails offers the fresh_when method to automatically compute an ETag from the given record, array of records or scope...
By activating strict_loading you force developers to address n+1 queries by preloading all associations used in the index...
Testing your responses in Rails allows to parse the body depending on the response MIME type with parsed_body.
We will achieve this by creating a block accepting method to optionally create and then lock a .lock File of...
Since Ruby 3.2.0 you can measure coverage support for eval statements and support has been added for the simplecov gem...
SASS has an @extend keyword to inherit styles. .alert color: red &.-framed border: 1px solid red padding: 5px &.-homepage
The change_column method for rails migrations support casting with a custom SQL statement. This allows us to change a...
Container queries enable you to apply styles to an element based on the size of the element's container. If...
If you use a newer SSH key generated with the ED25519 algorithm instead of RSA (see Create a new SSH...
Rails partials have a lot of "hidden" features and this card describes some non-obvious usages of Rails Partials.
In the past we validate and set default values for boolean attributes in Rails and not the database itself.
Not all email clients support external images in all situations, e.g. an image within a link. In some cases, a...
Since Rails 7 you are able to encrypt database information with Active Record. Using Active Record Encryption will store an...
In Rails 5+ you can access a helper from a controller using the helpers method: # Inside a controller action
To retrieve only unique combinations of the selected attributes: You can omit rows, where all selected columns are equal with...
Rails includes milliseconds in Time / DateTime objects when rendering them as JSON: JSON.parse(User.last.to_json)['created_at'] #=> "2001-01-01...
vertical-align is hard. Have you ever wanted to vertically center an icon with text? This usually means "vertically align...
Sometimes, the rails dev server doesn't terminate properly. This can for example happen when the dev server runs in...
When you use the :as option to map a power to a controller method you can now override the generated...