...you have too many inotify instances you may run into limits of your operating system. To find out which process is using them all up you can run:

...the cogwheel icon (or press F1 when focusing the dev tools) to open the settings overlay. Under "Preferences", in the "Appearance" section, find the "Panel layout" option. Set it to...

Alternatively, press Ctrl+Shift+P and search for "panel layout". Wat? Vertical means that the DOM tree is next to the styles/etc panel, like so:

...For ages, CSS transforms had to be defined using the transform property. For a single transformation, this was something like transform: scale(1.5), and multiple transformations could be applied by...

.example { transform: scale(1.5) rotate(45deg) translateY(-50%); } All modern browsers (Chrome & Edge 104+, Firefox 72+, Safari 14.1+, Samsung Internet 20+) also support individual properties for transforms.

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...to lock a user in devise. Using the lockable module Customizing the user account status validation when logging in. It depends on your requirements which methods works best.

...user on soft delete We recommend to use option 2 when you want to couple the lock to the model's soft delete logic. Option 1 might also work when...

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Or: How to avoid and refactor spaghetti code Please note that I tried to keep the examples small. The effects of the methods in this card are of course much...

...more significant with real / more complex code. What are the benefits of more modular code? Code is written once but read often (by your future self and other developers who...

ImageMagick can convert SVGs to raster image formats. Example for PNG: convert input.svg output.png If the SVG has a size of 24x24 (viewBox="0 0 24 24"), the resulting...

...PNG will also have a size of 24x24. Resizing An SVG's viewBox specifies the intended size, but vector image formats can be scaled freely. Resize flag (poor results)

If you already selected an element and want to get its parent, you can call find(:xpath, '..') on it. To get the grand-parent element, call find(:xpath, '../..'). Example

...href]).to eq("http://twitter.com/") About XPath There is a good overview on XPath syntax on w3schools. But as XPath expressions can get quite complex and hard to understand for...

When doing some meta-programming magic and you want to do something for all attributes of a class, you may need to access connection or some of its methods (e.g...

...will encounter fun errors such as: PG::ConnectionBad (for missing databases on PostgreSQL) ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::UndefinedTable (when database exists, but has no tables) Generally speaking, evaluating model columns during...

...come across objects created by some gem or framework. You don't have the source code at hand, still need to inspect this object. Here are some tools to do...

...from Object. This makes the methods list drastically more relevant. You can also try subtracting other base classes like ActiveRecord::Base.methods etc. To further narrow it down you can also...

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...an event handler, there are multiple methods to cancel event propagation, each with different semantics. event.preventDefault() Only prevents the default browser behavior for the click, i.e. going to a different...

...url or submitting a form. When invoked on a touchstart event, this also prevents mouse events like click to be triggered. event.stopPropagation() Prevents the event from bubbling up the DOM...

Sometimes you have a file that is related to a project, while not actually being part of it. You'd like to keep them around, but others won't need...

...them – e.g. some notes, a log, or a database dump. Sure, you have a project directory – but all of it is tracked by Git. A project's tmp/ directory is...

...in development. Note that there are services like badssl.com to test against weird SSL behavior. Self-signed certificates Talking to a host using a self-signed certificate will fail because...

...the certificate can not be verified. >> RestClient.get('https://self-signed.badssl.com/') RestClient::SSLCertificateNotVerified: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed Self-signed certificates...

...tell npm to install a package globally with npm -g install @puppeteer/browsers. However, it seems that its not possible that npx can run commands from global packages without referencing the...

...image, where a testing chrome and chromedriver is installed with a global npm package. Since there is no local project it was more useful to install the package in a...

In the past we validate and set default values for boolean attributes in Rails and not the database itself. Reasons for this: Older Rails didn't support database defaults when...

...the Rails upstream on constraints in the database, is adding default values in the schema of the database itself. We also encourage to set boolean attributes to not null. For...

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...instead of using the UI or creating records in the Rails console. This approach saves time and gives you useful defaults and associations right out of the box.

PostgreSQL uses the C library's locale facilities for sorting strings: First, all the letters are compared, ignoring spaces and punctuation. It sorts upper and lower case letters together. So...

...the order will be something like a A b B c C Then, spaces and punctuation are compared to break ties. Example: Ruby PostgreSQL IMAGE3.jpg image2.jpg image.jpg image3.jpg image2.jpg

Module imports are hoisted (internally moved to the beginning of the current scope). Therefore, it doesn’t matter where you mention them in a module and the following...

Footgun example When you're not aware of import hoisting you may be surprised that your code runs in a different order than you see in the source file...

...that's not a float! This occurs because JavaScript uses double precision floats to store numbers. So according to IEEE floating point definition only numbers between...

...and 2^53 - 1 (9007199254740991) can safely be represented in JavaScript. Note that ECMAScript 6 will probably also offer Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (and Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER) that point to those...

...discouraged to load your JavaScript by a tag in the : The reason is that a tag will pause the DOM parser until the script has loaded and executed. This will delay the browser's first contentful paint. A much better default is to load your scripts with a tag: A deferred script has many useful properties: It does not block the browser from rendering content. Deferred scripts...

...can query the entire DOM tree with querySelector() and friends. document.readyState is 'interactive'. Deferred scripts will run before the DOMContentLoaded event. That means if your code waits to initialize until...

...not necessary to add a version constraint next to your gems in the Gemfile. Since all versions are saved in the Gemfile.lock, everyone running bundle install will get exactly the...

...You are not checking in the Gemfile.lock into the version control (not recommended) A specific gem has a bug in a more recent version (adding a comment for the reason...

In interactive commands, Git allows the user to provide one-letter input with a single key without hitting enter (docs). # Enabled this feature globally git config --global interactive.singlekey true

...enable this feature locally for a single repository git config interactive.singlekey true This allows you to hit "y" instead of "y + ENTER" to move to the next hunk.

Ubuntu 18.04 uses systemd to manage services. There are basically two commands for listing all services and manipulating the state of a certain service: service and systemctl: service manages System...

...which system V init scripts are available and running / not running, you can use service --status-all: >service --status-all [ + ] acpid [ - ] alsa-utils [ - ] anacron [ + ] apache-htcacheclean [ - ] apache2 [ + ] apparmor [ + ] apport

When you send automated emails from a noreply@-address, and the recipient has an out of office enabled, the autoreply bounces and they get an additional email with an error...

...To prevent the recipient's auto-response and the following error message you can set the email header Auto-Submitted: auto-generated in your mailer, for example like this:

By default, Devise sends all emails synchronously with deliver_now. To change that, Devise's readme suggests overwriting the send_devise_notification method like this: class User def send_devise...

...notification(notification, *args) devise_mailer.send(notification, self, *args).deliver_later end end However, there is one problem: When deliver_later enqueues the mail with ActiveJob, the job arguments are logged. In...