In long diffs, it can become impossible to spot small changes in larger blocks of moved code. This may be either a method that was moved from the top to...
...the bottom of a file, or a long test file that was split in many. Fortunately, Git offers a special highlighting mode that directs the reader's attention to relevant...
...with information from an associated table, you can JOIN the associated table into the statement. Example Let's say you have a database schema where an Employee belongs_to :department...
Now you need to backfill existing Employee records with the new department_name. Since the department's name lives in another table, you need to JOIN both tables during...
The File System Access API is a new capability of modern browsers that allows us to iterate over selected folders and files on a user's machine. Browser support is...
...not great yet, but if the feature is only relevant for e.g. a single admin user it could still be worth using it prior to wider adaption instead of building...
Sometimes it's nice to have some coloring in your logs for better readability. You can output your logs via tail and pipe this through sed to add ANSI color...
...containing "FATAL" in red and all lines with "INFO" in green: tail -f /path/to/log | sed --unbuffered -e 's/\(.*INFO.*\)/\o033[32m\1\o033[39m/' -e 's/\(.*FATAL.*\)/\o033[31m...
...only tidies up your own code, but also makes it easier to write future specs. However, not all situations are well-suited for that. Sometimes the effort isn't worth...
...would need too many parameters to be reusable. In those cases, you can also simply extract a private method: describe `/search` do it "doesn't lose the infinite scroll's...
...hints on best practices to maintain your tasks in larger projects. Rake Tasks vs. Scripts The Rails default is using rake tasks for your application tasks. These live in lib/tasks...
...case you want to avoid rake for your tasks and just use plain ruby scripts, consider lib/scripts/* as folder. Keeping tasks slim For readability and testing it's easier to...
YJIT is Ruby's default just-in-time compiler. It is considered production-ready since Ruby 3.2 (source). To activate YJIT you need two steps: Your ruby binary needs to...
...be compiled with YJIT support. You need to enable YJIT. Getting a Ruby with YJIT support We usually install Ruby with tools like rbenv or asdf. This compiles the ruby...
The benefit of the Rails asset pipeline is that it compiles your stylesheets and javascripts to a single file, respectively. However, the consequences are startling if you don't understand...
...all your asset libraries in the same folder, which quickly becomes confusing as your set of assets grows. To overcome this, we have two different solutions. Custom solution
...and how to normalize them. In the example below, the Movie#title attribute is stripped from leading and trailing whitespace automatically: class Movie < ApplicationRecord normalizes :title, with: -> { _1.strip } end
...a class. Which could look like this: class Movie < ApplicationRecord normalizes :title, with: Normalizers::StripNormalizer end The with keyword accepts any callable object that takes the attribute’s value as...
Tested on Ubunut 22.04 1. Opener script Create a file ~/.local/bin/coverage_zip_opener with: #!/bin/bash tmp_folder="/tmp/coverage-report-opener" if [ -z "$1" ] then echo "Usage: coverage_zip_opener [filename]" exit -1 fi
index_filename=$(find /tmp/coverage-report-opener -name "index.html" | awk '{ print length, $0 }' | sort -n -s | cut -d" " -f2- | head -1) if [ -z "$index_filename" ] then echo "No index file...
You want to prevent input to a form field, but all the solutions have side effects: The [readonly] attribute is only available for text fields, but not for checkboxes, selects...
...all kinds of fields, but will no longer include the field value in the submitted form data. pointer-events: none still allows keyboard input, and does not indicate disabledness visually...
We structure our CSS using the BEM pattern. Our naming convention for blocks, elements and modifiers has evolved over the years. This card shows our current style and various alternative...
...styles that you might encounter in older projects. The difference between the various styles are mostly a matter of taste and optics. I do recommend to not mix styles and...
The :test adapter doesn't respect limits_concurrency configuration. Switch to :solid_queue adapter in your test to verify blocking behavior. Job Configuration class MembershipJob < ApplicationJob limits_concurrency(key: ->(membership...
...assert_enqueued_jobs(2, only: MembershipJob) # Both enqueue, but we haven't proven the second will block end The solution test('limits concurrency second job with same membership is blocked...
...investigate by running that example again using rspec . However, this does not work with shared examples, since Rspec doesn't know in which context the shared example should be run...
...But there is a different way: You can run the shared example using the -e, --example option. It takes a string value and runs all scenarios containing that substring in...
...offset, e.g. Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:00:00 CET +01:00. Ruby's stdlib TZInfo also has time zones, but with different identifiers. Unfortunately, not all timezone codes can...
...time zone has a pretty abbreviation. In such cases, you'll end up with a semi-broken offset identifier that humans won't understand. What to do?
...driver_opts directly. However, this is deprecated and will be removed in version 4 of selenium-webdriver. Version 5.x will drop support for passing the service options as hash...
...Option 2: Connect tests to a manually started chromedriver Warning This does not work with selenium-webdriver > 4 anymore. You can pass in a specific port as attribute of the...
Some browsers render PNG images with color profiles and other shenanigans, some don't. The cleanest way to have consistent colors across browsers is to convert all your images to...
...a standard color profile, strip the image's original profile and attach the standard profile. If you can't be bothered to convert color profiles, a quicker (but less effective...
...use heredoc to avoid endlessly long lines of code that nobody can read. Heredoc strings preserve linebreaks and can be used like this: def long_message puts(<<-EOT)
...a very long message... Sincerely, foobear EOT end <<-EOT will be somewhat of a placeholder: anything you write in the line after you used it will be its value until...
This RailsCast demonstrated a very convenient method to activate VCR for a spec by simply tagging it with :vcr. For RSpec3 the code looks almost the same with a few...
...minor changes. If you have the vcr and webmock gems installed, simply include: # spec/support/vcr.rb VCR.configure do |c| c.cassette_library_dir = Rails.root.join("spec", "vcr") c.hook_into :webmock end RSpec.configure do |c...
This is a short overview of things that are required to upgrade a project from the Asset Pipeline to Webpacker. Expect this upgrade to take a few days even the...
Cleanup Remove all gems you used for assets and the Asset Pipeline itself, e.g. sass-rails, uglifier, autoprefixer-rails, sprockets-rails, jquery-rails, bootstrap-sass and many more.
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10 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-updates/main amd64 Packages 10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-security/main amd64 Packages 2:7.4.1829-1ubuntu2 10 10 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main...
Option 1: Creating a self-signed certificate with the openssl binary As igalic commented on this gist. openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -sha256 -days 365 -nodes -x509 -keyout server.key...
make it an X.509 certificate, not a Certificate Signing Request. Option 2: Creating a self-signed certificate with the mkcert binary The linked tool mkcert helps you to setup...
If you're using a Redis cache in Rails (e.g. :redis_cache_store), it's possible to configure additional parameters for your Redis connection. Example config for Rails 7.2
...store = :redis_cache_store, { pool: { timeout: 0.5 }, read_timeout: 0.2, # default 1 second write_timeout: 0.2, # default 1 second # Attempt two reconnects with some wait time in between reconnect_attempts...
...s possible you get this "error" message: *** [err :: example.com] There are no Phusion Passenger-served applications running whose paths begin with '/var/www/example.com'. *** [err :: example.com] This is just because there were...
...no running passenger process for this application on the server which could be restarted. It's not a real error. The application process will start if the first request for...