There is a reasonable simple way to move data between Redis servers: Simply temporarily configure the new server as a...

CSS selectors are a very simple tool to select elements from a Nokogiri document. However, the colon in the XML...

Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra. This talk will be in German with English slides.

Running Cucumber tests while your cucumber.yml is 100% valid may still produce the following error. cucumber.yml was found, but could...

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...

betterspecs.org

betterspecs.org is a documentation on how to write better RSpec tests. Note that there are also other approaches like The...

makandra dev

With Rspec you can mock objects or functions, for example like this: expect(my_object).to receive(:my_function).and...

We use the whenever gem to automatically update the crontab of the servers we deploy to. By default, whenever will...

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thoughtbot.com

One of the earliest pieces of wisdom we are given as programmers is to not write duplicate code: Don’t...

This seems to be obvious, but you can expect Rake tasks to be called in RSpec. it 'deletes all Users...

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Using git fixup helps you to speed up appending changes further back in the git history of your feature branch...

To make CSS rules dependent on the screen size, we use media queries: @media (max-width: 500px) { // rules for screen...

Ruby and Rails have several methods for creating a new object that looks like another: clone, dup, deep_dup. When...

When you have many changes, and you want to spread them across different commits, here is a way to stage...

github.com

The linked GitHub repository is a bit like our "dev" cards deck, but groomed from a single person (Josh Branchaud...

With puma you can have concurrent requests. There are two concepts on how Puma can handle two incoming requests: Workers...

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...

When we write a form with date fields, we often use graphical data picker like Rome to get a consistent...

Embedding videos on a website is very easy, add a tag to your source code and it just works...

By default, Devise redirects to a sign-in form when accessing a route that requires authentication. If for some reason...