Phusion Passenger changed the way how it gets restarted several times. Through the project's history, these all were valid: touch tmp/restart.txt sudo passenger-config restart-app /path/to/app passenger-config...
gem 'capistrano-passenger', require: false Add to your Capfile: require 'capistrano/passenger' Declare which server role should be restarted (optional). Usually passenger tries to restart all servers with the app...
Why secure-only cookies used to be necessary Cookies have an optional secure flag. It tells the browser to not send the cookie for a non-https request.
...users from http:// to https://. The reason was that most users will only enter a scheme-less domain like makandra.de into their location bar, which will default to http://makandra.de...
Understanding your type of cronjob Some cronjobs must only run on a single server. E.g. when you run nightly batch operations on the database, it should probably run on a...
...single server. Running it on multiple servers would likely result in deadlocks or corrupt data. Some cronjobs must always run on all servers. E.g. starting a sidekiq process on reboot...
Although regular expression syntax is 99% interchangeable between languages, keep this in mind: By default, the dot character (".") does not match a line feed (newline, line break, "\n") in any...
...use the /s modifier in Ruby. It changes the RegExp to interpret text as Shift JIS encoded which you probably don't want. Javascript There is no modifier to make...
Migrating data from a legacy into a new system can be a surprisingly large undertaking. We have done this a few times. While there are significant differences from project to...
...project, we do have a list of general suggestions. Before you start, talk to someone who has done it before, and read the following hints: Understand the old system
...can reset the min-width. Say you have a simple grid layout: .container .first-item .second-item .third-item .container display: grid grid-template-columns: 100px 1fr 100px Your expectation...
...correct as the grid layout will try to do that: +---------+----------------------------+---------+ | | - 10 characters long | | +---------+----------------------------+---------+ However, if .second-item's content is too large to fit into the reserved space, it will...
...latest commits are not ready for production? Then use git merge master~n to skip the n-last commits. Tip A big advantage of merging vs. cherry-picking is that...
In a nutshell: Use git rebase --onto target-branch source-commit target-branch means "branch you want to be based on" source-commit means "commit before your first feature commit...
...Let's say my-feature-branch is based on master and we want it to be based on production. Consider this history: %%{init: { 'gitGraph': {'showCommitLabel': true, 'mainBranchName': 'production'}} }%% gitGraph
The following two hints are taken from Github's Ruby style guide: If your regular expression mentions a lot of forward slashes, you can use the alternative delimiters %r(...), %r...
...complex, you can use the /x modifier to ignore whitespace and comments: regexp = %r{ start # some text \s # white space char (group) # first group (?:alt1|alt2) # some alternation end
...in coding lies in crafting precise prompts. The main challenge is learning how to structure prompts effectively to guide the model toward accurate results. Further evidence supporting this is the...
...that Aider already writes ~70% of its own code (as of 02/2025). However, when starting out, your results may fall short of efficiently generating large portions of your code with...
...Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code DRY by sharing behavior by using inheritance, modules, traits or partials. When you reuse behavior you want to...
...writing integration tests with Cucumber, where you need to express yourself with Gherkin and step definitions instead of Ruby classes and methods. But don't dispair! Below you will find...
...This release has many minor changes and fixes to prepare your application for Rails 3. Step-by-step upgrade instructions: Upgrade rails gem Change your environment.rb so it says RAILS...
...for a detailed list of changes. 2.3.9 to 2.3.10 Fixes Vulnerability in Nested Attributes code. Step-by-step upgrade instructions: Upgrade rails gem Change your environment.rb so it says RAILS...
...this card, we describe a wrapper for it that humanizes a given number of seconds in the "next best" unit, like seconds, minutes, etc. Example usage >> new Duration(42).humanized...
>> new Duration(123456).humanized() => '1 Tag' >> new Duration(123456).humanized('es') => '1 día' Code Here is the code as an ECMAScript module. Note that we default to German in...
When you need to find out in which kind of spec you are during run-time, it's definitely possible. It's a lot easier in RSpec 2+.
...consider this global before block where you'd want to run some code for specific specs only: config.before do # stuff that_fancy_method # more stuff end RSpec 2+
...Doing that enables e.g. man in the middle attacks. If you accept only a single expired and known certificate, you are much less in trouble. Setup All the solutions described...
...below use a verify_callback for the request's OpenSSL::X509::Store where you can specify a lambda to adjust its verification response. Your callback must return either true or...
...maintain. There are some good practices for writing a changelog that adds value, please stick to these. Add a notice to the README's contribute section about the changelog
...this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html). ## Unreleased - Added `Foo#foo` method. ## 1.0.0 - 2017-06-20 ### Breaking changes - Renamed `Foo...
Icon fonts like Font Awesome are infinitely scalable, look great on high-DPI displays and will give your app a modern look. However, icon fonts can be very awkward to...
...use compared to raster icons. Elements are given icons by giving them a special class like icon-plus or icon-home: Create The icon font's stylesheet will then recognize...
This card is a general reminder to avoid the short version of a command option in shared code. It's much easier to understand a command and search for an...
...option when it's written out. You can still use the short version of the options in your own terminal or in code snippets that are more useful when they...
...more complicates it is easier to understand and to process. Note: In case a string does not match the pattern, .match will return nil. With Ruby 2.4 the result of...
...transformed to a Hash with named_captures. This allows you to use methods like slice or fetch on the result. Example with a multiple assignment PRODUCT_PATTERN = /\A(.+) S\/N...
...uses a "real" time zone or :local, and if config.active_record.time_zone_aware_attributes is set to false or not. With time zones configured, always use .current for Time, Date, and...
...which hold time zone information and Time.now only in those that run with the server's time. If you don't, bad things can and will happen. More information can...
...least one external REST API, machine-to-machine communication via GraphQL is less commonly seen. In this card, I'd like to give a quick intro on how to query...
Interacting with GraphQL feels a bit like querying a local database. You are submitting queries to fetch data in a given structure (like SELECT in SQL) or mutations to...
...config={}). There also is a generate method which will run the generator in a subprocess. Call it with generate 'generator_name', 'command line args'. Expected (hard-coded) directory structure of...
... #{generator name, e.g. model}_generator.rb USAGE Templates If you want to use the supplied template, directory and other template methods, you must call source_root 'path/to/templates' inside your generator...
...with an english name. This makes you code easier to read and is also suggested by Rubocop's Style/GlobalVars cop. Example before: if 'foo' =~ /foo/ puts $~[1] # => foo end
...following content: require 'English' List of global aliases $ERROR_INFO => $! $ERROR_POSITION => $@ $FS => $; $FIELD_SEPARATOR => $; $OFS => $, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR => $, $RS => $/ $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR => $/ $ORS => $\ $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR => $\ $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER...
When your application is open for public sign up and sends out transactional e-mails to a large number of users, e-mail deliverability becomes an issue. E-mail providers...
...work hard to eliminate spam and have put in place relatively tight checks what kinds of emails they will accept, and from whom. To that end we use tools like...