Using ffmpeg, you can easily re-encode a video to reduce its file size. Command Do it like this:
Rails wraps your parameters into an interface called StrongParameters. In most cases, your form submits your data in a nested...
The new params.expect method in Rails 8 improves parameter filtering, addressing issues with malformed input and enhancing security. It provides...
Also see the list of IRB commands. Switching the context Changes the "default receiver" of expressions. Can be used to...
To reverse lookup a fixture by its table name and id, use the following approach on ActiveRecord::FixtureSet: table = 'users...
TL;DR: Rails ships two methods to convert strings to constants, constantize and safe_constantize. Neither is safe for untrusted...
In development, we store files using ActiveStorage's disk service. This means that stored files are served by your Rails...
If you update Selenium regularly, you'll run into deprecation warnings similar to: WARN Selenium [:clear_local_storage] [DEPRECATION] clear...
tl;dr When a cookie includes an Expires attribute or an HTTP response includes caching headers like Expires or Cache...
In FactoryBot factories, Rails' file_fixture is not available by default. To enable it, include a support module from rspec...
Some key highlights and points from the linked article TestProf II: Factory therapy for your Ruby tests. The Problem with...
Rails slightly changed the fragment cache implementation from Rails 7.0 to Rails 7.1. Unfortunately, this is incompatible with how Haml...
When Ruby objects are inspected in any modern IRB, some objects (like ActiveRecord instances) are rendered with neat colors and...
Capistrano 3 has a doctor task that will print information about Environment: Ruby, Rubygems and Bundler versions List of Capistrano...
YJIT is Ruby's default just-in-time compiler. It is considered production-ready since Ruby 3.2 (source).
A lesser known fact about PG enums is that they are ordered. This can be really handy when values have...
We recently migrated a Rails application from yarn to npm. We decided to go this step instead of upgrading to...
Zeitwerk is the new autoloader of Rails. It is mandatory starting with Rails 7.0. Sometimes, a model needs to know...
Rails 7.1 added the normalizes method which can be used to normalize user input. It lets you define the fields...
Slow test suites are a major pain point in projects, often due to RSpec and FactoryBot. Although minitest and fixtures...
While the main goal always is to prevent long-running queries in the first place, automatic timeouts can serve as...
When handling nested hashes the RSpec output is often hard to read. Here the gem super_diff could help.
This talk shows simple and advanced usages of the ruby/debug debugger. It goes through a step by step debugging workflow...
On our Ubuntu machines we have nautilus file manager with nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal installed. This adds an entry to...