I used two lab days to read the The framework field guide - Fundamentals, the first of a three part series...
The gemspec for gems allows to add metadata to your gem, some of which have a special meaning and are...
...GA configurable without changing anything in the application's code base (and much more beyond, see below). Only prefer GTM if the customer requests it, or if he is updating...
...his tracking requirements frequently. The idea behind GTM The "tag" in "Google Tag Manager" has nothing to do with HTML tags, nor with word tags or tag clouds. In the...
Ever needed to use a global variable in Rails? Ugh, that's the worst. If you need global state, you...
...Normalize characters in Ruby". Specs (for nerds) Here are some specs that describe the behavior of #to_sort_atoms: describe String do describe '#to_sort_atoms' do it 'should return...
A primer on vector graphics For rastered image formats like JPG or PNG, each pixel is basically drawn on a...
Git log offers useful options for filtering. This card provides a short overview. By message Only commits that include a...
Removing features and merging those changes back can be painful. Here is how it worked for me.\
...To do that, we’ll need to fully specify the component parts, states, and behaviors of the built-in controls, as well as necessary accessibility requirements, and provide test suites...
...reinvent common web UI controls to give designers full control over their appearance and behavior. We hope to make it unnecessary to reinvent built-in UI controls, but for those...
Ctrl + Alt + S > search "rubocop on save" Under "Inspections", check the highlighted box on rubocop -a Caveat: This adds a...
Large Rails projects tend to define multiple custom ways to format Dates or DateTimes. This often leads to duplicated format...
Version 3.7.0 broke some things in complex forms. Sorry for that. Concurrent user input is hard. 3.7.1 This change fixes...
JavaScript objects can have getter and setter functions that are called when a property is read from or written to...
OpenAI is currently limiting the Audio generating API endpoint to text bodies with a maximum of 4096 characters.
Note: ActiveRecord::Base#becomes has a lot of quirks and inconsistent behavior. You probably want to use ActiveType.cast instead. ActiveRecord models have with a method becomes(klass) which you can...
If the project team consists of at least 2 members, do a daily standup. It should not take much longer...
Interactively rebase your current branch onto main, keeping the original base commit (i.e. not rebasing onto main directly).
I recently noticed that better_errors allows you to to open files from within your favorite editor. However it was not so easy to get rubymine:// links to work on...
...Does xdg-open "rubymine:///etc/hosts" open the hosts-file in RubyMine? Step 4: Tell better_errors to use your opener The BETTER_ERRORS_EDITOR_URL environment variable can be used...
Talking with APIs makes more fun using Postman. As an alternative you can also use command line tools like cURL...
Flash movies (.swf files) can talk with Javascript code embedded in the same HTML page. There are two ways to...
It is quite easy to migrate from CoffeeScript to ES6. You can use decaffeinate to convert your CoffeeScript source to...
We're usually running Ubuntu LTS versions. Sometimes newer hardware requires packages from more recent Ubuntu releases that only come...
...for Rails 2 and 3. Recently, caching with timestamp- or content-based keys has become more popular which saves you the pain of invalidating stale caches. How to enable/disable caching...
Using Capistrano, we usually have some array configurations in the config/deploy.rb file, like set :linked_files, %w[config/database.yml], so in...