tl;dr Prefer request specs over end-to-end tests (Capybara) to joyfully test file downloads! Why? Testing file downloads
It's 2024 and we have tools like ffmpeg, imagemagick and GPT readily available. With them, it's easy to...
10.0.0 2024-03-07 Compatible changes console command: You can now globally disable the IRB multiline feature by setting irb...
I recently built a screen with a very high and wide table in the center. This posed some challenges:
Usually our code lives on GitLab, therefore our documentation for CI testing is extensive in this environment. If you are...
Tested on Ubunut 22.04 1. Opener script Create a file ~/.local/bin/coverage_zip_opener with: #!/bin/bash tmp_folder="/tmp/coverage-report-opener" if [ -z "$1" ]
Here are some hints on best practices to maintain your tasks in larger projects. Rake Tasks vs. Scripts
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...
The linked article suggests an interesting way to speed up tests of Rails + Postgres apps: PostgreSQL allows the creation of...
Getting an entire test suite green can be a tedious task which involves frequent switches between the CLI that is...
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.
Getting CSS (and JS) live reloading to work in a esbuild / Rails project is a bit of a hassle, but...
In my career, I have consumed hundreds of REST APIs and produced dozens. Since I often see the same mistakes...
If you ever need to restore exact records from one database to another, Marshal might come in handy. Marshal.dump is...
The old Chrome downloads bar had several advantages over the new subtle downloads dropdown: see all (many, at least) downloads...
While upgrading CarrierWave from version 0.11.x to 3.x, we encountered some very nasty fails. Below are the basic...
All direct child directories of app are automatically added to the eager- and autoload paths. They do NOT create a...
I recently stumbled over a problem that my feature tests broke in CI because of a mismatching chromedriver version.
View specs are a powerful tool to test several rendering paths by their cases instead of using a more costing...
Note Don't use reruns as a mean to work around flaky tests. You should always try to fix those...
Do you remember finding where a method is defined? I recently that Method objects are quite useful within a debugging...