...in "Comment" with: """ This is a long comment. With multiple lines. And paragraphs. """ The step definition is part of the spreewald gem

When you do a bitwise copy using the dd tool you will not see any output until it completes or an error occurs. However, you can send a command signal...

...to the process to have it show its progress so far. From another terminal, simply call (be root or use sudo): pkill -USR1 dd This makes dd write something like...

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...listen to other events. Quirks The "default behavior" in this case is not to show an alert, and preventing this default means the alert is being shown. In ancient browsers...

...customize the alert text, but this is no longer possible. You might want to set event.returnValue = true, as a truthy returnValue was necessary to trigger the alert in Chrome...

...at the same time. When assets did not change, we do not want to spend time compiling them. Here is our solution for all that. Its concept should work for...

...all test suites. Copy the following to config/initializers/webpacker_compile_once.rb. It will patch Webpacker, but only for the test environment: # Avoid hardcoded asset hosts in webpack, otherwise all chunks would be loaded...

Let's say we have posts with an attribute title that is mandatory. Our example feature request is to tag these posts with a limited number of tags. The following...

...In most cases you want to use Option 4 with assignable values. The basic setup for all options looks like this: config/routes.rb Rails.application.routes.draw do root "posts#index" resources :posts, except...

tl;dr: Ruby's Bundler environment is passed on to system calls, which may not be what you may want as it changes gem and binary lookup. Use Bundler.with_original...

...env to restore the environment's state before Bundler was launched. Do this whenever you want to execute shell commands inside other bundles. Example outline Consider this setup: my_project/Gemfile...

Let's say you have a form that you render a few times but you would like to customize your submit section each time. You can achieve this by rendering...

...form partial as layout and passing in a block. Your template or partial then serves as the surrounding layout of the block that you pass in. You can then yield...

Sometimes we write plain SQL queries in migrations so we don't have to mock ActiveRecord classes. These two migrations do the same: class Migration1 < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.2]

...Migration2 < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.2] def up add_column :users, :trashed, :boolean update("UPDATE users SET trashed = #{quoted_false}") end end The plain SQL migration is less code, but has a...

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When testing your command line application with Aruba, you might need to stub out other binaries you don't want to be invoked by your test. Aruba Doubles is a...

Install the gem as instructed by its README, then put this Before block somewhere into features/support: Before do ArubaDoubles::Double.setup prepend_environment_variable 'PATH', ArubaDoubles::Double.bindir + ':' end

...If you are plucking from the id column in particular you can also say: User.active.ids => [1, 5, 23, 42] For a DISTINCT selection, use distinct on your scope (not the...

...resulting array). Article.distinct.pluck(:state) # SELECT DISTINCT state FROM articles => ['draft', 'published'] In Rails 3 and 4 you must use uniq instead of distinct: Article.uniq.pluck(:state) # SELECT DISTINCT state FROM articles...

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The issue: You are using stub_const to change a constant value for your test. stub_const "SomeClass::CONST", 'test' All of a sudden, tests fail with undefined method 'some...

...method' for # . The reason When using stub_const before the Class containing the constant has been loaded, a module is automatically created with the name. Since RSpec does no autoloading...

Most browsers have built-in drag and drop support for different page elements like text and images. While this may be useful in most situations, it may become annoying in...

...functionality. This does no longer work. You may now achieve this by explicitly preventing the startdrag-event:

const noDragElement = document.querySelector('no-drag-pls') noDragElement.addEventListener('dragstart', event => event.preventDefault())

...a web developer, you know Google Analytics (GA). Probably you've dropped the GA snippet into more than one website, maybe you've even used its Javascript API to implement...

...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...

...optimize the experience. Using capistrano-rails capistrano-rails is a Gem that adds Rails specifics to Capistrano, i.e. support for Bundler, assets, and migrations. While it is designed for Asset...

...Pipeline (Sprockets) assets, it can easily be configured for Webpacker. This brings these features to the Webpacker world: Automatic removal of expired assets Manifest backups # config/deploy.rb # No need to include...

In Rails, we usually have a mailer setup like this: class MyMailer < ActionMailer::Base def newsletter mail to: 'receiver@host.tld', from: 'sender@host.tld', subject: 'My mail' end end If you want to...

...Rails will print the mail's text representation to your log/development.log. You may also save this output as-is to an .eml file and open it with your mail client...

...Layouts tab you have handy options to debug CSS Flexbox and Grid. Including: Display size and lines along with labels Changing their attributes Change how overlay is colored and fastly...

...switch nested elements in the Elements panel This guide will only cover some example gif recordings on how to use with Grid, since it's basically straight forward to apply...

Some users might use Adblock Plus or similar browser plugins to reduce the number of ads displayed. If you run into an issue that your application or part of an...

...our web apps. But if your application uses iframes or is embedded in another site it's more prone to it. Blocked elements most of the time appear to the...

...don't only have a favicon.ico in your project but also PNGs of different sizes and backgrounds, you should test if all those files are actually reachable.

...few selectors to get you started: 'link[rel~="icon"]' # regular ones, matches "shortcut icon" and "icon" 'link[rel="apple-touch-icon"]' # iOS 'meta[content][name="msapplication-TileImage"]' # IE11 'meta[content...

...a remote API, check out the VCR gem as an alternative to Webmock or stubbing hell. The idea behind VCR is that is performs real HTTP requests and logs the...

...in a .yml file. When you run the test again, requests and responses are stubbed from the log and the test can run offline. It's a great way to...

In Cucumber, scenario outlines help avoiding tests that are basically the same, except for a few variables (such as different inputs). So far, nothing new. The problem

...your test should (or should not) do something, like filling in a field only for some tests? Scenario Outline: ... When I open the form And I fill in "Name" with...

...modern JavaScript down to EcmaScript 5. Depending on what browser a project needs to support, the final Webpack output needs to be different. E.g. when we need to support IE11...

...JavaScript features. Hence our output will be more verbose than when we only need support modern browsers. Rails 5.1+ projects often use Webpacker to preconfigure the Webpack pipeline for us...

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...to do it. Make an educated decision: Is the code change worth the effort? Stay straight on track, don't go astray. Note: Usually, you'd refactor after finishing your...

...story. At times, it might be necessary to refactor up front. But try to keep refactoring out of your current task. Knowing where to optimize Things should only be optimized...

...some beyond 50MB. Unless you need to offer this large files, you should always shrink uploaded files to a reasonable resolution. class ImageUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base process resize_to_limit...

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I recently did a quick research on how to better write down multiline statements like this: # Dockerfile RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \ && apt-get update \ && apt-get dist-upgrade -y...

...apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests -y \ ca-certificates \ curl \ unzip It turns out, there is! Buildkit, the tool behind docker build added support for heredoc strings...