You can share a state in Ruby with global variables. Even if you should avoid them whenever possible, for debugging...

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General hints on the DOM the root of the DOM is document custom elements inherit from HTMLElement. They need a...

When an AJAX request raises an exception on the server, Rails will show a minimal error page with only basic...

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Two weeks ago, Cloudflare was struck by a global outage that lasted ~30 minutes. The incident was rooted on a...

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webpack is a very powerful asset bundler written in node.js to bundle (ES6) JavaScript modules, stylesheets, images, and other assets...

RubyMine comes with a nice way to grep through your project's files: The finder (ctrl + shift + f). Don't...

Element finding is a central feature of Capybara. Since #find is normally used to get elements from the current page...

The goal is to get Jasmine specs running in a Rails project using Webpacker, with the browser based test runner...

If your Ruby project includes a gem like Spreewald that comes with some external step definition, RubyMine does not know...

If rspec hangs with no output and you dont get a backtrace neither with --backtrace nor by just killing it...

In Ruby on Rails, all objects have a useful blank? method. It returns true for nil but also for empty...

Travis changed their default distribution from Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) to 16.04 (precise). This might break your test setup for new...

Not all versions of Node.js are compatible with each other. Also npm packages may require a minimum or maximum version...

When you update your ChromeDriver to version 75 or beyond, you might get w3c errors in your tests.

Cucumber up to version 2 had a neat feature called Step Argument Transforms which was dropped in favor of Cucumber...

Until Capybara 2, node finders that accept a text option were able to find nodes based on rendered text, even...

Download buttons can be difficult to test, especially with Selenium. Depending on browser, user settings and response headers, one of...

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TL;DR Most web applications do not require action on this. SameSite=None (old browser default) will continue to work...

Was ist Elastic? Suchmaschine, basierend auf Apache Lucene größtenteils Open-Source einige kommerzielle Features ("Elastic Stack", früher "X-Pack") Zugriffsrechte...

PostCSS is a tool for transforming styles with JS plugins. In Webpacker you can configure the plugins and their settings...

This is a short overview of things that are required to upgrade a project from the Asset Pipeline to Webpacker...

While deploying an Ruby update to an old application these days, we encountered the following misleading error: *** [err :: some-host.makandra.de] You...

When we want to use our own (or bought) fonts in an application with Webpack(er), we have two options...

When you have a powerful machine with many CPU cores, you might run into an error like