tl;dr Prefer request specs over end-to-end tests (Capybara) to joyfully test file downloads! Why? Testing file downloads
10.0.0 2024-03-07 Compatible changes console command: You can now globally disable the IRB multiline feature by setting irb...
You can chain multiple Capybara matchers on the page or any element: expect(page) .to have_content('Example Course')
A common cause of non-accessible web pages are elements that were made interactive via JavaScript but cannot be focused...
Today I stumbled across a pretty harmless-looking query in our application which turned out to be pretty harmful and...
All browsers implement an event named beforeunload. It is fired when the active window is closed and can be used...
I recently noticed a new kind of flaky tests on the slow free tier GitHub Action runners: Integration tests were...
Usually our code lives on GitLab, therefore our documentation for CI testing is extensive in this environment. If you are...
Sometimes you have a file that is related to a project, while not actually being part of it. You'd...
tl;dr We recommend configuring Selenium's unhandled prompt behavior to { default: 'ignore' } with the monkey patch below.
A Rails script lives in lib/scripts and is run with bin/rails runner lib/scripts/.... They are a simple tool to perform...
There are a few tools to combat the dreaded n+1 queries. The bullet gem notifies you of missing eager...
Today I learned that you can animate HTML elements using the Web Animation API's method .animate(keyframes, options) (which...
Here are some hints on best practices to maintain your tasks in larger projects. Rake Tasks vs. Scripts
Version 3.7.0 broke some things in complex forms. Sorry for that. Concurrent user input is hard. 3.7.1 This change fixes...
I recently did a quick research on how to better write down multiline statements like this: # Dockerfile RUN export DEBIAN...
A list of clever debugging tricks. TOC: Advanced Conditional Breakpoints monitor() class Calls Call and Debug a Function Pause Execution...
RubyMine has a collaboration feature called "Code With Me". Using it, you can invite someone into your local editor to...
The linked article suggests an interesting way to speed up tests of Rails + Postgres apps: PostgreSQL allows the creation of...
This Capistrano task runs a command on all servers. bundle exec cap production app:run cmd='zgrep -P "..." RAILS_ROOT/log/production.log...
A general overview about why and how we migrate can be found under Migrating from Elasticsearch to Opensearch
OpenAI is currently limiting the Audio generating API endpoint to text bodies with a maximum of 4096 characters.
In Capistrano 3, your Capfile requires 'capistrano/rails/migrations', which brings two Capistrano tasks: deploy:migrate and deploy:migrating. The former checks...
#pluck is commonly used as a performant way to retain single database values from an ActiveRecord::Relation Book.pluck(:title, :price...