We are using Spring in our tests for sequential test execution but not for parallel test execution. And Rails requires...
age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library. It features small explicit keys, no...
The rubygems binary gem allows to extract a local gem with gem unpack GEMNAME. For more details see the official...
Our gem spreewald supports a few helpers for development. In case you notice errors in your Cucumber tests, you might...
It seems like changing the HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE is not possible for a headless chrome. On Ubuntu the headless Chrome...
You can throttle the network in your headless chrome via Selenium. This might be useful for debugging issues with flaky...
Accessing other repositories in Gitlab CI is not straight forward, since the access rights of the current pipeline might not...
In case your integration tests crash with a message like below, try to upgrade Capybara to a newer version (3.35.3...
Capybara added a deprecation warning in version 3.35.3 (version from 2019) that shows up if your selector is not of...
Table of content for the linked article: 1. The `loading=lazy` attribute 2. Email, call, and SMS links
This card is a general reminder to avoid the short version of a command option in shared code. It's...
Installing gems on a server that has no access to the internet (especially rubygems.org) requires to bundle the gems into...
The ActionDispatch module of Rails gives you the helper method flash to access the flash messages in a response.
ZSH is an alternative command line shell that includes some features like spelling correction, cd automation, better theme, and plugin...
Sometimes you want to have a time in a given timezone independent from you Rails timezone settings / system timezone. I...
A rough guide how to implement a REST API. The discussion here includes some interesting points as well: Timestamps: ISO8601...
When running an older version of docker-compose you might see the following error: ERROR: Version in "./docker-compose.yml" is unsupported...
Rails supports alert and notice as default flash types. This allows you to use these keys as options in e.g...
In case Ruby does not detected the expected encoding of a file automatically you can specify the known encoding manually...
In Ruby you can communicate between processes with sockets. This might be helpful in tests that validate parallel executions or...
SSHKit 1.9.0 might fail with the following error, when trying to deploy a Rail application. Upgrading the gem to version...
Whenever requires you to set the application attribute in your Capistrano configuration. Otherwise your cronjobs are created multiple times.
Using Ruby 1.8.7 you will not be able to use the maximum versions Rubygems 1.8.30 and Bundler 1.17.3 with https://...
The linked blog post contains some background information about the alt attribute and the figure / figcaption element. It is interesting...