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Rails' ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone objects have both a timezone code and offset, e.g. Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:00:00 CET...
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This is a presentation from 2019-01-21. Summary We want to move away from jQuery in future projects
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When restoring a PostgreSQL dump using pg_restore, you usually add the --clean flag to remove any existing data from...
When building an application that sends e-mails to users, you want to avoid those e-mails from being classified...
The standard way to abort async code is that your function takes a AbortSignal { signal } property. The caller can use...
Suggested Workflow Set the ruby version in .ruby-version to 2.3.5, then perform these steps one by one, fixing errors...
When doing Basic Authentication, your browser will send an "Authorization" header. Its value is simply a Base64-encoded representation of...
In ruby you can easily read and write CSVs with the standard CSV library class. On top of this, you...
To restart all tasks monitored by God, don't use god restart. This command is only meant to soft-restart...
Cucumber has an output format that prints step definitions only. You can use this to find unused ones: Temporarily add...
When upgrading Rails versions -- especially major versions -- you will run into a lot of unique issues, depending on the exact...
The Ace editor is a great enhancement when you want users to supply some kind of code (HTML, JavaScript, Ruby...
If your Rubymine does not recognize a file type correctly although you have entered the unmistakeable file extension like material_orders_controller.rb...
We figured out, that ActiveJob Inline might lead to autoloading problems in development. The result was an exception when running...