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This decision tree describes how to use the alt attribute of the element in various situations. For some types of...

Rails wraps your parameters into an interface called StrongParameters. In most cases, your form submits your data in a nested...

Elements can be hidden and shown by toggling the display property. However, this is not animatable, so we often turn...

Your package-lock.json should always match and resolve all packages from your package.json. Coming from Yarn, I was looking for an...

TL;DR: Rails ships two methods to convert strings to constants, constantize and safe_constantize. Neither is safe for untrusted...

In development, we store files using ActiveStorage's disk service. This means that stored files are served by your Rails...

In FactoryBot factories, Rails' file_fixture is not available by default. To enable it, include a support module from rspec...

When Ruby objects are inspected in any modern IRB, some objects (like ActiveRecord instances) are rendered with neat colors and...

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Capistrano 3 has a doctor task that will print information about Environment: Ruby, Rubygems and Bundler versions List of Capistrano...

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Rails' fragment caching caches subtrees of an HTML document tree. While constructing that tree though, it can be really hard...

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YJIT is Ruby's default just-in-time compiler. It is considered production-ready since Ruby 3.2 (source).

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Git has the concept of hooks: bash scripts that are invoked at certain points in the Git lifecycle. One handy...

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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...

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Zeitwerk is the new autoloader of Rails. It is mandatory starting with Rails 7.0. Sometimes, a model needs to know...

Rails 7.1 added the normalizes method which can be used to normalize user input. It lets you define the fields...

When using Rails credentials, you will edit the encrypted credentials for staging or production environments from time to time. To...

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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...

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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...

Starting with ChromeDriver 127, if your application displays a beforeunload confirmation dialog, ChromeDriver will immediately close it. In consequence, any...

I recently stumbled upon the Rails feature composed_of. One of our applications dealt with a lot of addresses and...