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Accessing other repositories in Gitlab CI is not straight forward, since the access rights of the current pipeline might not...
In case your integration tests crash with a message like below, try to upgrade Capybara to a newer version (3.35.3...
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We recently noticed issues with Chrome 75+ when having the w3c option enabled within the Selenium webdriver. It looks like...
The linked article points out that COUNT queries might be unexpectedly slow in PostgreSQL. If you just need to know...
When giving a presentation where you do some coding, the font size you usually use is probably a bit too...
When testing JavaScript functionality in Selenium (E2E), you may need to access a class or function inside of a evaluate...
I encountered a unlucky behavior of byebug 11.1.3 (the most recent version at time of writing) when using it with...
Matching the "space" character class For matching whitespaces in a regular expression, the most common and best-known shorthand expression...
While renaming a file sometimes feels like "dropping its history", that is not true: Just use git log --follow on...
rspec >= 3.1 brings a method and_wrap_original. It seems a bit complicated at first, but there are use cases...
When dealing with external data sources, you may have to deal with improperly encoded strings. While you should prefer deciding...
Browsers usually cache website content in order to provide the user with faster responses. Examples are returning to a website...
You can publish pre-release versions of an npm package. Naming convention for pre-release versions An npm package must...
When a Ruby version gem has a letter in its version number, it is considered a pre-release:
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When deleting a record in your Rails app, Carrierwave automatically takes care of removing all associated files. However, the file...
If your Webpack build is slow, you can use the Speed Measure Plugin for Webpack to figure out where time...
To run additional code before an existing Rake tasks you can add a dependency like this: task :before_task...