Terser is a really good minifier ("compressor") for JavaScript code. I'm often surprised by the thoughtfulness of its compressed...
While most Rails Apps are tied to at least one external REST API, machine-to-machine communication via GraphQL is...
Some rubygems come in platform-specific versions (i.e. "x86_64-linux") in addition to the usual "ruby" platform. This is...
Using Capistrano, we usually have some array configurations in the config/deploy.rb file, like set :linked_files, %w[config/database.yml], so in...
If you are using the routing-filter gem in your Rails 7.1 app for managing URL segments for locales or...
What is makandra cards? We are makandra, a team of 60 web developers, DevOps and UI/UX experts from Augsburg, Germany...
There are two ways a logout in SAML can happen: Service Provider (SP) initiated and Identity Provider (IDP) initiated logout...
Developing or debugging SAML functionality can be a hassle, especially when you need to go back and forth with someone...
10.0.0 2024-03-07 Compatible changes console command: You can now globally disable the IRB multiline feature by setting irb...
Any form fields where users enter numbers should be an . Numeric inputs have several benefits over : On mobile or tablet...
A Rails script lives in lib/scripts and is run with bin/rails runner lib/scripts/.... They are a simple tool to perform...
Your development server is usually running on an insecure HTTP connection which is perfectly fine for development.
Getting an entire test suite green can be a tedious task which involves frequent switches between the CLI that is...
This Capistrano task runs a command on all servers. bundle exec cap production app:run cmd='zgrep -P "..." RAILS_ROOT/log/production.log...
A general overview about why and how we migrate can be found under Migrating from Elasticsearch to Opensearch
In Capistrano 3, your Capfile requires 'capistrano/rails/migrations', which brings two Capistrano tasks: deploy:migrate and deploy:migrating. The former checks...
Getting CSS (and JS) live reloading to work in a esbuild / Rails project is a bit of a hassle, but...
If you ever need to restore exact records from one database to another, Marshal might come in handy. Marshal.dump is...
While upgrading CarrierWave from version 0.11.x to 3.x, we encountered some very nasty fails. Below are the basic...
On the Rails console, assigning an object to a variable can lead to this strange error (without stacktrace): irb > recipient...
TLDR Using .includes or .eager_load with 1-n associations is dangerous. Always use .preload instead. Consider the following ActiveRecord...
For my computer science bachelor's thesis I programmed and evaluated a CLI Test Case Prioritization (TCP) tool for makandra...
Newest versions of Chromedriver breaks the user agent for device emulation via device name. In previous versions the user agent...
In CI test runs I noticed that string sorting order changed after switching from a debian-based PostgreSQL docker image...