In a web application you sometimes have tasks that can not be processed during a request but need to go...
If you render markdown from user input, an attacker might be able to use this to inject javascript code into...
An unresponsive service can be worse than a down one. It can tie up your entire system if not handled...
Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra. This talk will be in German with English slides.
We use CarrierWave in many of our projects to store and serve files of various formats - mostly images. A common...
tl;dr Don't forget require 'English' if you use a named global such as $LAST_MATCH_INFO. Otherwise this...
We use the whenever gem to automatically update the crontab of the servers we deploy to. By default, whenever will...
This seems to be obvious, but you can expect Rake tasks to be called in RSpec. it 'deletes all Users...
In case you want to use pry with an older version of Ruby, you can try the following configurations.
Ruby and Rails have several methods for creating a new object that looks like another: clone, dup, deep_dup. When...
You can install rubygems 3.0.8 (released on February 18, 2020) to keep all the Gem::Specification#rubyforge_project deprecation warnings...
When you have many changes, and you want to spread them across different commits, here is a way to stage...
The linked GitHub repository is a bit like our "dev" cards deck, but groomed from a single person (Josh Branchaud...
In Active Record you can use named bindings in where-conditions. This helps you to make your code more readable...
Test-Driven Development (TDD) in its most dogmatic form (red-green-refactor in micro-iterations) can be tedious. It does...
Simplecov is a code coverage tool. This helps you to find out which parts of your application are not tested...
"Everything in Ruby is an object". This is also true for nested hashes and arrays. If you copy a hash...
A recent patch level Ruby update caused troubles to some of us as applications started to complain about incompatible gem...
Embedding videos on a website is very easy, add a tag to your source code and it just works...
Code comments allow for adding human readable text right next to the code: notes for other developers, and for your...
Ruby's Net::HTTP library repeats a failing request once, as long as it deems it idempotent (GET, HEAD etc...
To find an input with the type hidden, you need to specify the type hidden: find_field('Some label', type...
If you need to test some HTML, e.g. an embed code, you can use RubyMine's "scratch files":
We can use ActiveRecord's where to add conditions to a relation. But sometimes our condition is not on the...