...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...
...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...
...s calc(100 - l)); Here is what happens: from currentColor tells hsl() to start with the value of currentColor. calc(h + 180) rotates the color hue by 180 degrees, i.e...
...to the opposite of the color wheel. s keeps saturation unchanged. calc(100 - l) inverts lightness. For example, 0% becomes 100%, and 100% becomes 0%. Example usage .demo { --inverted-color...
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...
...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...
SVG is an acronym for "scalable vector graphics". SVGs should be used whenever an image can be described with vector instructions like "draw a line there" or "fill that space...
...they're not suited for photographs and the like). Benefits are the MUCH smaller file size and the crisp and sharp rendering at any scale. It's a simple, old...
...the code below to check whether the browser can make connections to the current site: await isOnline() // resolves to true or false The code The isOnline() function below checks if...
...you can make real requests by re-fetching your site's favicon. If the favicon cannot be downloaded within 6 seconds, it considers your connection to be offline. async function...
...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...
Browsers come with a set of built-in elements like or . When we need a new component not covered by that, we often build it from and tags. An alternative...
...Custom elements will be ignored for the purposes HTML validation, but their children will still be validated. Styling new elements Browsers will give unknown elements a default style of display...
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...
Slow test suites are a major pain point in projects, often due to RSpec and FactoryBot. Although minitest and fixtures are sometimes viewed as outdated, they can greatly improve test...
We adopted a project using minitest and fixtures, and while it required some initial refactoring and establishing good practices, the faster test suite was well worth it! Stick with...
...exception, Rails will look at the exception's class and choose an appropriate HTTP status code and error page for the response. For instance, an ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound will cause Rails...
...render a red "The page you were looking for doesn't exist" with a status code of "404" (not found). The mapping from exception classes to error types is a...
...or position: fixed display: inline-block display: table-cell overflow: (not "visible") and more, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Block_formatting_context Example: A fluid main area with a right sidebar
...you don't want either column to clear content of the other. Float the sidebar to the right and you're set: its content now renders in the sidebar's...
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...
...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...
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
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 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
...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...
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+
...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...
...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...