Note: Making a reverse proxy with nginx is much more straightforward. A reverse proxy is a "man in the middle...
sslscan is a nice tool to show details about TLS/SSL connections: ~> sslscan some-host-at.makandra.de Testing SSL server some-host-at.makandra.de on port 443...
Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest...
When using Savon to connect a SOAP API, you may want to use Savon::SpecHelper to mock requests in your...
You might wonder about this request in your test.log: Started GET "/__identify__" for 127.0.0.1 at 2015-04-29 18:00...
List of cloud services and SaaS with a free tier for developers or that are generally free for open source...
Starting from Rails 4.0, you can use a special form options helper called #collection_check_boxes. It behaves similar to...
When ending a Selenium test Capybara resets the browser state by closing the tab, clearing cookies, localStorage, etc.
There are some frontends available, but they all suck, are no longer maintained or are hard to install.
Web applications can be used by multiple users at the same time. A typical application server like Passenger has multiple...
You can hook into Slack when using Capistrano for deployment. The slackistrano gem does most of the heavy lifting for...
When a CSS3 animation makes the animated element flicker, it may well be due to pixel fragments being handled differently...
To achieve this goal you have to setup the session store like the following example: MyApp::Application.config.session_store( :cookie_store...
This guide shows how to create an AngularJS application that consumes more and more memory until, eventually, the browser process...
It's like a GUI for the famous git add [-p]. Select files with the up/down-keys and hit
If you want to load an SQL dump from an ActiveRecord migration, you might find this to be harder than...
I couldn't successfully execute a simple iptables command and got this error on an Ubuntu server: # /sbin/iptables -I INPUT...
Geordi 1.0 features a command line application geordi, that holds most of Geordi's previous commands. New features
Jonas Nicklas, the author of Carrierwave and Capybara, has released Refile, a gem for handling file uploads in Rails. It...
Here is a Javascript function reloadUsers() that fetches a HTML snippet from the server using AJAX and replaces the current...
When running Selenium features with parallel_tests, some browser-server interaction might take longer than usual and the impatient Capybara...
Capybara-screenshot can automatically save screenshots and the HTML for failed Capybara tests in Cucumber, RSpec or Minitest. Requires Capybara...
Interesting approach to caching responses directly in the HTTP server, based on the value of an individual cookie.
Bourbon is a library of pure Sass mixins that are designed to be simple and easy to use. No configuration...