...formatting. Headers, paragraphs, lists, it’s all good. What about the formatting of text in single-line text fields? If our form entry is a single line, that’s usually...
...on an old version of ImageMagick that you can no longer install in your system, you can choose the run an old ImageMagick in a Docker container. Dockerized ImageMagick commands...
...path arguments. You need to boot a corresponding docker container once before using it. Setting up Docker If you haven't installed Docker yet, use our guide or the official...
...behavior of deprecated code in your Ruby project, the warning messages littered throughout your spec output is incredibly noisy. You could silence all warnings with ::ActiveSupport::Deprecation.silenced = true, but you...
...dependencies. It’s tempting to remove the tests altogether (the code will be burned soon too, right?), but I figured out something a little nicer a little while back in...
...was missing some features on Ruby's RSS::Parser that I found in Feedjira: Speed Does not break on slightly malformed RSS feeds (like a missing length attribute on an...
...an npm package. Naming convention for pre-release versions An npm package must use Semantic Versioning's naming convention for its version. In Semantic Versioning, the version number and pre...
...release identifier (like rc1) must be separated by a dash, like this: 1.0.0-rc1 2.3.0-alpha2 3.0.0-beta3 Publishing to a pre-release tag npm packages have multiple "current" releases...
When you're facing a somewhat complex Google Analytics setup and want to find out what's happening, you can use this Chrome extension. It's much simpler than other...
...like "Google Tag Assistant") and does just one job and does it well. To see what's happening, you need to open your developer console...
The team is responsible for building great software—that’s it. It’s the only thing the team is responsible for and it’s the only thing that they actually...
...control. In other words, the development team is committed to quality software...
Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft' }). The later is nicer to read, but has horrible security...
...versions of Ruby on Rails. Affected versions Version Affected? Remedy 2.3.18 yes Use chain_safely workaround 3.0.20 no 3.1.x ??? 3.2.22 yes Use Rails LTS 3.2 with hardened configuration...
In large forms (30+ controls) new Capybara version become [extremely slow] when filling out fields. It takes several seconds per input. The reason for this is that Capybara generates a...
...huge slow XPath expression to find the field. The attached code patches fill_in with a much faster implementation. It's a dirty fix and probably does a lot less...
Since May 2011 we are cutting new gems using Bundler, which is less painful than cutting gems using Jeweler. You know a gem was cut using Bundler if you see...
This is how to update a gem that was cut using Bundler: Say git pull or check out a repository from Github like git clone git@github.com:makandra/geordi.git
Ruby's String#split returns an array of substrings from the given string. Usually, this is missing the split characters: >> 'user@example.com'.split('@') => ["user", "example.com"] If you want to join those...
...parts later on, you might know the split character and can just use it to join explicitly. But if you split by a regular expression (for a set of split...
...was typical approach for object oriented languages, designed in the 90s. A thread is sequence of instructions that can be scheduled and executed in the context of a process. Several...
...at the same time. Ruby’s VM process allocates a memory heap, which is shared and writable by threads. If incorrectly coordinated, those threads can lead to unexpected behaviors...
...methods and properties) video = document.querySelector('video') video.play() video.pause() video.load() // Reset to the beginning and select the best available source video.currentSrc // The selected source video.currentTime // The current playback time (in seconds...
...video.ended // Whether the video has finished video.muted video.paused video.readyState // See comments video.volume Comments controls makes the browser show its own video controls The image given in poster will be shown...
Sometimes you want to have a time in a given timezone independent from you Rails timezone settings / system timezone. I usually have this use case in tests. Example
...results e.g. 2020-08-09 00:00:00 +0200 depending on the Rails timezone settings / system timezone. But in this example we always want to have the given time in...
ZSH is an alternative command line shell that includes some features like spelling correction, cd automation, better theme, and plugin support. You can replace Bash with ZSH like following:
...apt-get install zsh Setting ZSH as default login shell sudo usermod -s /usr/bin/zsh $(whoami) Opening a new terminal window will show you a dialog where you can configure your...
In rare cases you might need something like form_for (for using form builder methods on the resulting block element) but without the surrounding form. One such case would be...
...updating some of a form's fields via XHR. You can simply use Rails' fields_for to do things like this in your views (HAML here): - fields_for @user do...
...dependeny of capybara gem 'nokogiri', '< 1.6' # dependency of capybara gem 'rubyzip', '< 1' # dependency of selenium-webdriver, rubyzip 1+ requires Ruby 1.9 gem 'cucumber_factory' gem 'database_cleaner', '< 1'
...spinner', '~> 0.2.5' gem 'launchy', '~> 2.1.2' With these versions set, selenium-webdriver will be at version 2.35.1. This is because all later versions depend on rubyzip 1+. More info. After upgrading...
...image formats like JPG or PNG, each pixel is basically drawn on a fixed size canvas. To display such an image in a different size (say: 1.5 times larger than...
...Monitor) needs to interpolate the color values of missing pixels. The image will appear slightly blurred. This is different for vector graphics like the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format. You...
PostgreSQL and ActiveRecord have a good support for storing dynamic attributes (hashes) in columns of type JSONB. But sometimes you are missing some kind of validation or lookup possibility (with...
...plain attributes you can use Active Record's built-in validations and have your schema.rb). One approach about being more strict with dynamic attributes is to use JSON Schema validations...
change_association :parent, class_name: 'Parent::AsForm', inverse_of: :children end When saving a Parent::AsForm record with nested Child::AsForm records, the children will not be saved...
...case where you override the association with has_many :children,...
...and belongs_to :parent, .... Solution This can be fixed with appending autosave: true to the Parent model: class Parent < ApplicationRecord...
...aws-credential-file ./aws-credential.txt The output should look something like this: arn:aws:iam::322191361670:server-certificate/www.example.com arn:aws:iam::322191361670:server-certificate/testCert Now you have to upload...
...and includes the server certificate Amazon Resource Name (ARN) and GUID: arn:aws:iam::322191361670:server-certificate/www.example.com-2011 ASCACexampleKEZUQ4K If you got the error message similar to A client error...
Here is some JavaScript code that allows you to click the screen and get the clicked element's text contents (or value, in case of inputs). The approach is simple...
...element. When you click the overlay, we look up the element underneath it and show its text in a browser dialog. You can then copy it from there.
...To reconfigure later, call s3cmd --configure. Once you're done setting up, s3cmd gives you shell-like commands like s3cmd ls or s3cmd del somefile.png. Here is a full list...
s3cmd accesslog s3://BUCKET Sign arbitrary string using the secret key s3cmd sign STRING-TO-SIGN Sign an S3 URL to provide limited public access with expiry
...frame('iframe-id') do fill_in 'E-mail', with: 'foo@bar.com' fill_in 'Password', with: 'secret' click_button 'Submit' end Instead of the frame's [id] attribute you may also pass...
If you're also using Cucumber you could make a meta-step like this: When /^(.*?) inside the (.*?) frame$/ do |step_text, frame_id| page.within_frame(frame_id...