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...
...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 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.
Whenever you have to deal with randomness in a jasmine test there are some spy strategies to help you out! Let's say we have a method Random.shuffle(array) to...
...shuffle an array randomly and a class that uses shuffle within the constructor. returnValue & returnValues it('shuffles the array', () => { spyOn(Random, 'shuffle').and.returnValue([3, 2, 1])
...not necessary to add a version constraint next to your packages in the package.json. Since all versions are saved in a lockfile, everyone running yarn install will get exactly the...
...within the yarn install command: Before: unpoly@^2.7.2: version "2.7.2" resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/unpoly/-/unpoly-2.7.2.tgz#55044c08bce0984c000f7cd32450af39271727de" integrity sha512-jfBbBRBQMCZZcNS6fckKpFunfdiTDBXW8yxRKqLs09jSrYYUDPd+YuyDoXjABXOro0aDUIMcmyTc7moc1/Z5Tw== After: unpoly@x: version "2.7.2" resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/unpoly/-/unpoly-2.7.2.tgz#55044c08bce0984c000f7cd32450af39271727de" integrity sha512-jfBbBRBQMCZZcNS6fckKpFunfdiTDBXW8yxRKqLs09jSrYYUDPd...
...loading associations. By preloading associations you can prevent the n+1 query problem that slows down a many index view. You might have noticed that using :include randomly seems to...
...involved table with a condition like...
...WHERE id IN (123, 125, 170). Execute a single query for a huge table joined from all involved tables. ActiveRecord prefers option 1, probably...
When using Rails to truncate strings, you may end up with strings that are still too long for their container or are not as long as they could be. You...
...did not use it. Since Firefox 7 you can! Note that this only works for single-line texts. If you want to truncate tests across multiple lines, use a JavaScript...
...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...
...are using the routing-filter gem in your Rails 7.1 app for managing URL segments for locales or suffixes, you will notice that the filters do no longer apply, routes...
...your controller action. This way you receive a locale parameter from a matching URL segment. Before Rails 7.1, this method returned all associated routes (as enumerable) and the using methods...
...for an option like Yarn's --frozen-lockfile which validates that. Here is what seems to be the way to do it. Using npm clean-install Running npm clean-install...
...versions while npm clean-install will complain. You can use npm ci as a shortcut for npm clean-install. Combine with a cache The idea of a "clean install" is...
...from the app/models folder to the lib/ folder. The approach is applicable to arbitrary scenarios and not limited to API clients. Example Let's say we have a Rails application...
...that synchronizes its users with the Github API: . └── app └── models ├── user │ ├── github_client.rb │ └── sychronizer.rb └── user.rb In this example the app folder contains domain dependent code (user.rb and sychronizer.rb) and domain independent...
...on a very good network connection. To test how your application behaves on a slow network (e.g. mobile), you can simulate limited bandwidth. Chrome Open the dev tools (Ctrl+Shift...
...I or F12) and switch to the "Network" tab In the row below the dev tool tabs, there's a throttling dropdown which reads "Online" by default. Inside the dropdown...
...set the Sass options. Webpacker const sassLoaderConfig = environment.loaders.get('sass') const sassLoaderIndex = sassLoaderConfig.use.findIndex(config => { return config.loader === 'sass-loader' }) // Disable deprecation warnings inside dependencies sassLoaderConfig.use[sassLoaderIndex].options.sassOptions.quietDeps = true sassLoaderConfig.use[sassLoaderIndex].options.sassOptions.silenceDeprecations = ['import...
module.exports = { module: { rules: [ { test: /\.s[ac]ss$/i, use: [ "style-loader", "css-loader", { loader: "sass-loader", options: { sassOptions: { quietDeps: true, silenceDeprecations: ['import'], }, }, }, ], }, ], }, }; ESBuild esbuild.build({ // ... plugins: [ sassPlugin({ quietDeps: true, silenceDeprecations...
...the test, as if the callback function is not executed in the test. However, since the test does not fail, the method :my_method must have been called during the...
...where the method :my_method should be called This will execute the original implementation (see here...
...to add some custom functionality. This card contains some tips how to achieve this. Setup Basically, follow the guide in the Rails documentation. The automated script may not work with...
...it should be easy to fix. If you don't want the default css shipped with Action Text, you can copy the stylesheet from basecamp's github into your project...
All major browsers (IE8+, FF3.5+, Safari 4+, any Chrome) support sessionStorage, a JavaScript storage object that survives page reloads and browser restores, but is different per new tab/window (in contrast...
...to localStorage which is shared across all tabs). MDN says: The sessionStorage object is most useful for hanging on to temporary data that should be saved and restored if the...
...they reach approx. 100MB: $ ls -lh log/ -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 55M Sep 15 09:54 development.log -rw-r--r-- 1 user group 101M Aug...
...development.log.0 This behavior is a built-in feature of Ruby's standard Logger class, which Rails uses by default. To control the maximum file size, set config.log_file_size...
Most of the time, when you are interested in any log output, you see the logs directly on your console or you tail / grep some logfile in a separate terminal...
...In rare cases it's helpful to redirect the Logger output temporary to e.g. STDOUT. Rails.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT) ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT) User.save! #=> D, [2025-09-08T11...
...t easily customizable. Example usage /slackfont Comic Neue to use "Comic Neue" (if installed) /slackfont system-ui to use your desktop's system font in Slack. /slackfont (without an argument...
...the default font. Some fonts may be unavailable If you installed Slack through Snap, only system-wide installed fonts (i.e. fonts located in /usr/share/fonts/ or /usr/local/share/fonts/) are available.
This guide shows how to create an AngularJS application that consumes more and more memory until, eventually, the browser process crashes on your users. Although this guide has been written...
...for Angular 1 originally, most of the advice is relevant for all client-side JavaScript code. How to observe memory consumption To inspect the amount of memory consumed by your...
Ever wondered how you can create a simple table output in bash? You can use the tool column for creating a simple table output. Column gives you the possibility to...
...same level. Pipe output to column -t (maybe configure the delimeter with -s) and see the magic happening. detailed example I needed to separate a list of databases and their...
Update: This is now documented on Edgeguides Ruby on Rails: If you set the :validate option to true, then associated objects will be validated whenever you save this...
...default, this is false: associated objects will not be validated when this object is saved. Setup # post.rb class Post < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :attachment end # attachment.rb class Attachment < ActiveRecord::Base...
For searching in large database tables we usually use PostgreSQL's fulltext search capabilities. While this works reasonably well for content primarily consisting of prose, it is not necessarily a...
...good solution for all use cases. The main issue is that it is only possible to search for prefixes of text tokens, which can potentially be unexpected for users.
...really want to get their arguments processable as keyword arguments. Don't change the syntax, or you'll experience pain. Always call super inside of your overridden #initialize method. A...
...things happen in the ActiveRecord world. Just let them happen, otherwise kittens will die somewhere. You don't want that. Example class Item < ActiveType::Object def initialize(attributes) super