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Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest change is that they moved away from their custom DSL...

...release_roles|...) :some_role do Resources Very helpful, leads you 90% of the upgrade: https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2013/11/26/capistrano-3-upgrade-guide.html Official documentation Many examples of SSHKit...

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...

...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...

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...

...Ruby parser module of Ruby-GetText comes across a file in one of its search directories (e.g. lib/scripts/) and finds out that you are defining ActiveRecord classes inside it, it...

...the whole file. Here is how to avoid that. What's happening? Let's say you have the following script which is only run once, manually, via script/runner: # lib/scripts/doomsday.rb

jQuery's deferred objects behave somewhat like standard promises, but not really. One of many subtle differences is that there are two ways to chain callbacks to an async functions...

...is done, which only exists in jQuery: $.ajax('/foo').done(function(html) { console.debug("The server responded with %s", html); }); There is also then, which all promise libraries have:

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...use Solr by calling Article.search { fulltext(title) paginate(:per_page => limit) } Now look at http://sunspot.github.com/docs/ to learn about all the possibilities of Sunspot. Overwrite Sunspots' search method

...your SysOp team that you'll need Solr on staging and production, on Ubuntu the solr-common will provide what you need. First of all you should provide Solr with...

These steps are now part of Spreewald. The step definitions below allow you to test the filename suggested by the server: When I follow "Export as ZIP"

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

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...

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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...

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...

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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...

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())

...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...

...you can install the official Java JRE: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre You can now check your default JVM with java -version. It should...

...versions below 10.10. If it does, please update this note. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6 You probably want to get rid of OpenJDK (which is...

If you have an html_safe string, you won't be able to call gsub with a block and match reference variables like $1. They will be nil inside the...

...with rails_xss) as well as Rails 3 applications. Here is a fix to SafeBuffer#gsub. Note that it will only fix the $1 behavior, not give you a safe...

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...GitHub repository is a bit like our "dev" cards deck, but groomed from a single person (Josh Branchaud). It includes an extensive list of over 900 TILs on many topics...

...TILs that were new to me. I encourage you to take your time to skim over the original list as well! Assoc For Hashes Hash#assoc can be used to...

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...

...messages should include the ID of the issue your code belongs to. Our preferred syntax prefixes the issue title with its ID in brackets, e.g. [FOO-123] Avatars for users...