...on a Rails record is converted to UTC using to_s(:db) to be stored, and converted back into the correct time zone when the record is loaded from the...
...This is now UTC Problem That will blow up in your face when you send times to attributes that expect dates, just because those times will also be converted using...
If your app does not need to support IE11, you can use most ES6 features without a build step. Just deliver your plain JavaScript without transpilation through Babel or TypeScript...
...and modern browsers will run them natively. Features supported by all modern browsers include: fat arrow functions (() => { expr }) let / const class async / await Promises Generators Symbols Rest arguments (...args)
...with VCR, the recorded cassettes will contain the full base64-encoded image payloads. A single image can easily be hundreds of kilobytes; a handful of recorded interactions will balloon your...
...repository size significantly. The VCR configuration below solves two problems: It scrubs base64 image data from cassettes before they are written to disk, replacing each image with a placeholder string...
First, go to the webinterface of your phone. Choose Software Update in the navigation on the left. Next, you have to find the current firmware version for your model in...
...the snom wiki. To do this, you have to follow the ? next to the Firmware text field to this page and then follow the link of the current firmware below...
...index do |person, index| person.award_trophy(index + 1) end Ruby's map with index Similarly, you may need an index when using other methods, like map, flat_map, detect (when...
...you need the index for detection), or similar. Here is an example for map: people.map.with_index do |person, index| person.at_rank(index + 1)
The File System Access API is a new capability of modern browsers that allows us to iterate over selected folders and files on a user's machine. Browser support is...
...not great yet, but if the feature is only relevant for e.g. a single admin user it could still be worth using it prior to wider adaption instead of building...
...ZIP archive, you basically have two options: Write a ZIP file to disk and send it as a download to the user. Generate a ZIP archive on the fly while...
...streaming it in chunks to the user. This card is about option 2, and it is actually fairly easy to set up. We are using this to generate ZIP archives...
...only tidies up your own code, but also makes it easier to write future specs. However, not all situations are well-suited for that. Sometimes the effort isn't worth...
...would need too many parameters to be reusable. In those cases, you can also simply extract a private method: describe `/search` do it "doesn't lose the infinite scroll's...
If you need a sample video with certain properties for a test you can create one using ffmpeg. You might want a very low bitrate file to speed up processing...
...ffmpeg -t 21 -s 10x10 -r 1 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 -i /dev/zero sample_21_seconds.mp4 Option Explanation -t 21 set the length to 21s -s 10x10
We structure our CSS using the BEM pattern. Our naming convention for blocks, elements and modifiers has evolved over the years. This card shows our current style and various alternative...
...styles that you might encounter in older projects. The difference between the various styles are mostly a matter of taste and optics. I do recommend to not mix styles and...
When you have a Cucumber step like Then I should see "Did you see those \"quotation marks\" over there?" you'll run into trouble. Cucumber won't take your...
...escaped quotation marks. Workarounds One workaround is to write the step as regex (since there is a step taking a regex): Then I should see /Did you see those "quotation...
You want to prevent input to a form field, but all the solutions have side effects: The [readonly] attribute is only available for text fields, but not for checkboxes, selects...
...all kinds of fields, but will no longer include the field value in the submitted form data. pointer-events: none still allows keyboard input, and does not indicate disabledness visually...
geordi cucumber path/to/features -r2 Background and how to rerun manually Cucumber will save a file tmp/parallel_cucumber_failures.log containing the filenames and line number of the failed scenarios after a...
...full test run. Normally you can say cucumber -p rerun (rerun is a profile defined by default in config/cucumber.yml) to rerun all failed scenarios. Here are a few alternative ways...
Ask the admins to turn on SSL (they will set an HSTS header for SSL-only sites) Make cookies secure and http_only Never hard-code the http protocol...
...into URLs that point to your application, which makes you vulnerable to SSL-stripping. When linking to internal resources, just use the path without protocol or URL When linking to...
We use foreman to start all necessary processes for an application, which are declared in a Procfile. This is very convenient, but the outputs of all processes get merged together...
...Especially while debugging you might not want other processes to flood your screen with their log messages. The following setup allows you to start Terminator in a split view with...
...offset, e.g. Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:00:00 CET +01:00. Ruby's stdlib TZInfo also has time zones, but with different identifiers. Unfortunately, not all timezone codes can...
...time zone has a pretty abbreviation. In such cases, you'll end up with a semi-broken offset identifier that humans won't understand. What to do?
Some browsers render PNG images with color profiles and other shenanigans, some do not. The cleanest way to have consistent colors across browsers is to convert all your images to...
...a standard color profile, strip the image's original profile and attach the standard profile. If you can't be bothered to convert color profiles, a quicker (but less effective...
...be roughly the same width. This avoids awkward cases in wide layouts where a single or few items wrap to their own row, leaving lots of empty space.
balance is a new value to the flex-wrap property. Since flex-wrap: wrap already exists, you must take care not to break browsers that don't support balance...
Occasionally you need to do something directly on the server -- like having all records recalculate something that cannot be done in a migration because it takes a long time.
...s say you do something like this: Project.all.each(&:recalculate_statistics!) Even though you may have been successful with this on your development machine or the staging server, keep in mind...
Rails offers several ways to remove records. They differ in whether they instantiate records, fire callbacks (including dependent: associations) and how they manage relation state afterward. destroy_all
# ActiveRecord::Relation def destroy_all records.each(&:destroy).tap { reset } end records evaluates SQL, caches result .each(&:destroy) iterates the cached Array, returns it .tap { reset } calls Relation#reset...
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10 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-updates/main amd64 Packages 10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-security/main amd64 Packages 2:7.4.1829-1ubuntu2 10 10 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main...
We're always striving towards keeping our website's JavaScript as small as possible. If you're using webpack(er), you can use the webpack-bundle-analyzer plugin to get...
...a good overview, which of your JavaScript modules take up how much space, and where you can optimize. To use it, add it via npm or yarn yarn add webpack...
When your site is on HTTPS and you are linking or redirecting to a HTTP site, the browser will not send a referrer. This means the target site will see...
Clients SHOULD NOT include a Referer header field in a (non-secure) HTTP request if the referring page was transferred with a secure protocol.
...had worked fine just a few weeks ago and there had been no changes since. Long story short: The browserslist database was simply outdated and the project's browserslist config...
...specifies "last 2 years" -- which no longer resolved to any known browsers, because the package version was older than 2 years. So, the fix is to just upgrade that package...