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This card is mainly an explanation how variable fonts work in CSS, not necessarily a recommendation to actually use them...

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Git diffs show the surrounding contexts for diff hunks. It does so by applying regular expressions to find the beginning...

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Minidusen lets you find text in associated records. Assume the following model where a Contact record may be associated with...

If you have installed Rubocop in your project, RubyMine can show you Rubocop violations immediately in your editor. You probably...

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You need to install the official plugin, it is not bundled with RubyMine by default. Example: Setup a watcher...

curl-to-ruby is a handy tool that converts your curl command to ruby code that uses the Net::HTTP...

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The linked article compares two approaches for writing CSS: A component library (like BEM) Utility classes (like Tailwind)

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Terminator has a cool feature that allows you to split your terminal into many panels and type in all of...

In Rubocop you might notice the cop Style/CaseEquality for e.g. this example: def foo(expected, actual) expected === actual end

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Scroll and touch event listeners tend to be computationally expensive as they are triggered very often. Every time the event...

Here is a short summary of Cucumber hooks in Ruby taken from https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby. Note that the BeforeStep is...

Sometimes you want to find the inverse of an ActiveRecord scope. Depending on what you want to achieve, this is...

Ubuntu 18.04 uses systemd to manage services. There are basically two commands for listing all services and manipulating the state...

We currently test most of our gems on Travis CI, but want to migrate those tests to Github Actions. This...

If you're experiencing problems with your Google Chrome installation after an update, it might help downgrading Chrome to check...

On some of our older projects, we use the mysql2 gem. Unfortunately, versions 0.2.x (required for Rails 2.3) and...

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While debugging a SPF record I found spf-record.de to be very helpful. it lists all IPs that are covered by...

Installing old Rubies (<= 2.3) with a standard rbenv + ruby-build is no longer possible on Ubuntu 20.04. This is because...

When loading a database dump created with pg_dump into your database, you might run into an error like

It sometimes happen that a database dump, that would want to insert into your development database, does not match the...

.desktop files define launchers for applications installed on your machine. They specify the command that will be executed when launched...

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There is a common view that extracting text from a PDF document should not be too difficult. After all, the...

The sidekiq-rate-limiter gem allows rate-limiting Sidekiq jobs and works like a charm. However, it needs to be...