The new params.expect method in Rails 8 improves parameter filtering, addressing issues with malformed input and enhancing security. It provides...
Bundler allows you to specify the name of the Gemfile you want to bundle with the BUNDLE_GEMFILE environment variable...
Also see the list of IRB commands. Switching the context Changes the "default receiver" of expressions. Can be used to...
Your package-lock.json should always match and resolve all packages from your package.json. Coming from Yarn, I was looking for an...
In development, we store files using ActiveStorage's disk service. This means that stored files are served by your Rails...
tl;dr When a cookie includes an Expires attribute or an HTTP response includes caching headers like Expires or Cache...
Some key highlights and points from the linked article TestProf II: Factory therapy for your Ruby tests. The Problem with...
Text fragments allow linking directly to a specific portion of text in a web document, without requiring the author to...
When Ruby objects are inspected in any modern IRB, some objects (like ActiveRecord instances) are rendered with neat colors and...
Capistrano 3 has a doctor task that will print information about Environment: Ruby, Rubygems and Bundler versions List of Capistrano...
Rails' fragment caching caches subtrees of an HTML document tree. While constructing that tree though, it can be really hard...
YJIT is Ruby's default just-in-time compiler. It is considered production-ready since Ruby 3.2 (source).
Git has the concept of hooks: bash scripts that are invoked at certain points in the Git lifecycle. One handy...
A lesser known fact about PG enums is that they are ordered. This can be really handy when values have...
We recently migrated a Rails application from yarn to npm. We decided to go this step instead of upgrading to...
Zeitwerk is the new autoloader of Rails. It is mandatory starting with Rails 7.0. Sometimes, a model needs to know...
I noticed that tig 2.5.1 that is provided by Ubuntu 22.04 repositories has inferior bash completion than older versions after...
When using Rails credentials, you will edit the encrypted credentials for staging or production environments from time to time. To...
Slow test suites are a major pain point in projects, often due to RSpec and FactoryBot. Although minitest and fixtures...
While the main goal always is to prevent long-running queries in the first place, automatic timeouts can serve as...
When handling nested hashes the RSpec output is often hard to read. Here the gem super_diff could help.
This talk shows simple and advanced usages of the ruby/debug debugger. It goes through a step by step debugging workflow...
The ActiveSupport::BroadcastLogger allows you to log to multiple sinks. You know this behavior from from the rails server command...
I recently stumbled upon the Rails feature composed_of. One of our applications dealt with a lot of addresses and...