In a project team for a bigger project people have several roles: Developer: at makandra Project lead: at makandra
...feature of Bundler. It might be an unintended side effect of something else. I believe this command will try to update GEMNAME and GEMNAME only. If this leads to unmatched...
You want to use fields in your applications. However, your desktop users may encounter some weird quirks: Aside from allowing...
...for Structs are temporary data structures which just hold state and don't provide behaviour. In many cases you could use a simple hash as a data structure instead. However...
...are incredibly fast. If you have to handle lots of data it may be better to use hashes for performance reasons, even if the readability of the code suffers compared...
...addition of both margins takes place but the maximum of both is applied. This behavior is called collapsing margins. Oftentimes it is a good behavior but collapsing margins can be...
...the previous sibling of the parent box. Nevertheless there are some exceptions where the behavior of vertical collapsing margins is not used. Exceptions when margins do not collapse
...in an encrypted YAML file. Usage is simple: each key in the credentials file becomes a method on Rails.application.credentials, returning the corresponding secret. # Credentials file file_storage_secret: superstrongsecret
We have now updated/created two gems that implement the requirements above using the best practices we know of: assignable_values: ActiveRecord macro to restrict the values that may be...
If you are using PDFKit / wkhtmltopdf, you might as well want to use custom fonts in your stylesheets. Usually this...
Whenever you create a table from a database migration, remember to add updated_at and created_at timestamps to that...
It's 2024 and we have tools like ffmpeg, imagemagick and GPT readily available. With them, it's easy to...
This might be relevant for us since we're often managing customer documents in our apps. I played around with...
...move elements to the back (e.g. background images, gradients etc). They will be rendered behind all other elements within the context (e.g. text), but not behind elements outside the stacking...
The value of the Unicode byte-order character placed at the beginning of the file (BOM). The value given by the charset attribute of the Content-Type...
Your package-lock.json should always match and resolve all packages from your package.json. Coming from Yarn, I was looking for an...
Today I learned that you can animate HTML elements using the Web Animation API's method .animate(keyframes, options) (which...
...or newer versions for these libraries before you start. Maybe you can upgrade them beforehand which makes the migration easier. Here are some libraries that I had come across:
...implement the navigation on your own. Tip: Add a feature for your navigation bar beforehand and test links and their highlighting (don't forget dropdown submenus!). After upgrading to Bootstrap...
You can use the code below to check whether the browser can make connections to the current site: await isOnline...
around do |example| superuser_power = Power.new(create(:user, :superuser)) Power.with_power(superuser_power) do # before-block will be run here, DB snapshot will be created example.run # after-block will...
...number of options. Offers some pretty skins for downloading, but is hard to customize beyond that. SoundManager 2 Free. Only does audio. Awkward API. There seems to be no way...
...will be short a window manager. This might be fixable, but it's probably best to simply log out (or shut down) using the Gnome panel...
Your development server is usually running on an insecure HTTP connection which is perfectly fine for development.
You can hook into Slack when using Capistrano for deployment. The slackistrano gem does most of the heavy lifting for...
TL;DR Append your locale keys with _html to have them marked as html_safe and translate them with = t...
...would possibly need in a clean way, I prefer to simply always use them. Behind the scenes, Open3 actually just uses Ruby's spawn command, but gives you a much...
Open3.capture3 Basic usage is require 'open3' stdout_str, error_str, status = Open3.capture3('/some/binary', 'with', 'some', 'args') if status.success? # okay else raise "did not work" end Open3 will raise...