It most cases it's not necessary to add a version constraint next to your gems in the Gemfile. Since...

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If you have a fully functional CI pipeline but no CD, you might find yourself frequently waiting for CI (with...

Git commands like diff use the less binary for their output representation. I often find myself searching for strings like...

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Geordi will now suggest related commands and options (hand-picked). If a command has suggestions, a single suggestion is printed...

Within Vim do the following: Move cursor to the first starting line where you want to start editing

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As we are slowly switching from Cucumber scenarios to RSpec feature specs, you might be tempted to write assertions like...

With this Ruby script you can print all values in a Redis database to your console (derived from this bash...

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Web forms can be made much more usable with a few HTML attributes. Short summary: type: Tells browsers about the...

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Context and further resources Even though you can get 90% of debugging done with up to 5 basic byebug commands...

I recently noticed that better_errors allows you to to open files from within your favorite editor. However it was...

Debugging your integration tests, that run a headless Chrome inside a docker image, is tricky. In many cases you can...

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The rubocop binary has a few interesting flags: rubocop (using the --parallel default ) scans the current repository for linting issues...

When you allow file uploads in your app, a user might upload content that hurts other users. Our primary concern...

Every Rails response has a default ETag header. In theory this would enable caching for multiple requests to the same...

tl;dr asdf allows you to manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool and is backwards compatible by...

If your irb or rails console keeps randomly crashing and you can't figure out why then you can try...

Sidekiq 7 adds a new feature called capsules. Use cases: a chrome queue limited to 1 for e.g. PDF processing...

If you want to to create maps within SASS/SCSS-files, it normally works like this: $some-map: (key1: value1, key2: value2...

To navigate between test and test subject Rubymine requires you to set the test root sources as Test Sources Root...

If you use a newer SSH key generated with the ED25519 algorithm instead of RSA (see Create a new SSH...

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Rails partials have a lot of "hidden" features and this card describes some non-obvious usages of Rails Partials.

Sometimes I ran across a GitHub merge request of a gem where it was not completely obvious in which version...

vertical-align is hard. Have you ever wanted to vertically center an icon with text? This usually means "vertically align...

Sometimes, the rails dev server doesn't terminate properly. This can for example happen when the dev server runs in...