The gemspec for gems allows to add metadata to your gem, some of which have a special meaning and are...
When you need information about a gem (like version(s) or install path(s)), you can use the gem binary...
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is a European marketing association which has introduced a standard how advertising can be served...
The RSpec matcher tests if two HTML fragments are equivalent. Equivalency means: Whitespace is ignored Types of attribute quotes are...
To start a workflow manually it must have a trigger called workflow_dispatch: --- name: Tests on: push: branches: - master
If you have a flaky command you can use the nick-invision/retry to re-try a failing command, optionally...
When deleting a record in your Rails app, Carrierwave automatically takes care of removing all associated files. However, the file...
If a project ist configured to spawn CI runners for tests or deployment when pushing to the Repo, a habit...
We had the issue, that a VCR spec failed, after updating CarrierWave from version 0.11.0 to 1.3.2. In this version...
tl;dr: Upgrade the gem to at least 4.0.1 When you use rspec_rails in a version < 4 with Rails...
A rough guide how to implement a REST API. The discussion here includes some interesting points as well: Timestamps: ISO8601...
Rails 6 includes a WYSIWYG editor, Action Text. It works out of the box quite well, but chances are that...
Using Ruby 1.8.7 you will not be able to use the maximum versions Rubygems 1.8.30 and Bundler 1.17.3 with https://...
Here is a short summary of Cucumber hooks in Ruby taken from https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby. Note that the BeforeStep is...
We currently test most of our gems on Travis CI, but want to migrate those tests to Github Actions. This...
On some of our older projects, we use the mysql2 gem. Unfortunately, versions 0.2.x (required for Rails 2.3) and...
Installing old Rubies (<= 2.3) with a standard rbenv + ruby-build is no longer possible on Ubuntu 20.04. This is because...
"Open-source software (OSS) is great. Anyone can use virtually any open-source code in their projects." Well, it depends...
Select2 is a fantastic library for advanced dropdown boxes, but it depends on jQuery. Alternatives Tom Select
If you render markdown from user input, an attacker might be able to use this to inject javascript code into...
The linked GitHub repository is a bit like our "dev" cards deck, but groomed from a single person (Josh Branchaud...
Simplecov is a code coverage tool. This helps you to find out which parts of your application are not tested...
Because colors improve readability so much. On Ubuntu 18.04 you can install it with sudo apt install grc
This is a personal post-mortem analysis of a project that was mainly build to provide a REST API to...