Here is a bash script that I use to auto-configure displays on Ubuntu 24.04 with Xorg. Background
When debugging slow SQL queries, it’s helpful to understand the database engine's query plan. Whenever you execute a...
Using ffmpeg, you can easily re-encode a video to reduce its file size. Command Do it like this:
Bundler allows you to specify the name of the Gemfile you want to bundle with the BUNDLE_GEMFILE environment variable...
Also see the list of IRB commands. Switching the context Changes the "default receiver" of expressions. Can be used to...
To reverse lookup a fixture by its table name and id, use the following approach on ActiveRecord::FixtureSet: table = 'users...
In development, we store files using ActiveStorage's disk service. This means that stored files are served by your Rails...
If you update Selenium regularly, you'll run into deprecation warnings similar to: WARN Selenium [:clear_local_storage] [DEPRECATION] clear...
tl;dr When a cookie includes an Expires attribute or an HTTP response includes caching headers like Expires or Cache...
In FactoryBot factories, Rails' file_fixture is not available by default. To enable it, include a support module from rspec...
Some key highlights and points from the linked article TestProf II: Factory therapy for your Ruby tests. The Problem with...
Text fragments allow linking directly to a specific portion of text in a web document, without requiring the author to...
When Ruby objects are inspected in any modern IRB, some objects (like ActiveRecord instances) are rendered with neat colors and...
YJIT is Ruby's default just-in-time compiler. It is considered production-ready since Ruby 3.2 (source).
A lesser known fact about PG enums is that they are ordered. This can be really handy when values have...
When using Rails credentials, you will edit the encrypted credentials for staging or production environments from time to time. To...
When users type into a Tom Select control, the options list is updated with a short delay which can feel...
Slow test suites are a major pain point in projects, often due to RSpec and FactoryBot. Although minitest and fixtures...
While the main goal always is to prevent long-running queries in the first place, automatic timeouts can serve as...
When handling nested hashes the RSpec output is often hard to read. Here the gem super_diff could help.
Starting with ChromeDriver 127, if your application displays a beforeunload confirmation dialog, ChromeDriver will immediately close it. In consequence, any...
I recently stumbled upon the Rails feature composed_of. One of our applications dealt with a lot of addresses and...
Rails' default logger prefixes each log entry with timestamp and tags (like request ID). For multi-line entries, only the...
Recently I needed to benchmark an Active Record query for performance measurements. I wrote a small script that runs each...