New versions of wkhtmltopdf dissallow file:// URLs by default. You can allow them by passing --enable-local-file-access.

You have uncommited changes (you can always check by using git status), which you want to discard.

tl;dr In RubyMine you can use find and replace with capture groups (.*?) and backreferences $1 (if you have several...

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The robots.txt file and HTML tag can be used to control the behavior of search engine crawlers. Both have different...

Ruby's standard library includes a class for creating temporary directories. Similar to Tempfile it creates a unique directory name...

tl;dr Since Rails 6+ you can use before? and after? to check if a date/time is before or after...

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Case studies and experiments demonstrating the impact of web performance optimization (WPO) on user experience and business metrics.

To allow HTTP 304 responses, Rails offers the fresh_when method for controllers. The most common way is to pass...

A memory leak is an unintentional, uncontrolled, and unending increase in memory usage. No matter how small, eventually, a leak...

For Rails models where only one of multiple attributes may be filled out at the same time, there is no...

If you need to convert an SVG source to PS or EPS, the most common suggestion on the interwebs is...

When working with feature branches, stale branches pile up over time. It's best to remove them right after merge...

Recently we detected a memory leak in one of our applications. Hunting it down, we found that the memory leak...

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The linked content includes a few design patterns implemented with Ruby on Rails. What is the card indented to achieve...

This should be fixed in the latest LTS-branches of our mysql2 fork, 0.2.x-lts and 0.3.x-lts...

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The inset CSS property is a shorthand that corresponds to the top, right, bottom, and/or left properties. It has the...

In case you have trouble with the zeitwerk autoloader, you can check out the documentation Autoloading and Reloading Constants and...

When paginating records, we usually need to know the number of total records in order to render pagination links. Popular...

You can use the code below to check whether the browser can make connections to the current site: await isOnline...

Somewhat regularly, you will need to filter a list down to some items and then map them to another value...

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I recently wanted to add a model for address information but also wanted to add a unique index to those...

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Imagine these models and associations: class Deck < ApplicationRecord has_many :cards end class Card < ApplicationRecord belongs_to :deck, optional: true...

When changing code in mailers, updating the corresponding mailer preview can be forgotten very easily. Mailer previews can be tested...

When redirecting you should take care to use the right HTTP status code. From controllers When redirecting from a controller...