Your commit messages should include the ID of the issue your code belongs to. Our preferred syntax prefixes the issue...
We are using assignable_values for managing enum values in Rails. Nevertheless Rails is adding more support for enum attributes...
When making requests using the http gem you might want to automatically follow redirects to get the desired response. This...
Debugging performance issues in your Rails app can be a tough challenge. To get more detailed insights consider using the...
There are two ways a logout in SAML can happen: Service Provider (SP) initiated and Identity Provider (IDP) initiated logout...
Starting with Rails 7.1 the production logger is set to standard out. For applications running with opscomplete ensure to keep...
If you are using git submodules in Gitlab CI, you might run into a "The project you were looking for...
If you need to make an HTTPS connection to a host which uses an expired certificate, do not disable certificate...
It's 2024 and we have tools like ffmpeg, imagemagick and GPT readily available. With them, it's easy to...
The author describes his little journey in hunting down a memory leak. Maybe his approach and tooling may one day...
You can chain multiple Capybara matchers on the page or any element: expect(page) .to have_content('Example Course')
I recently noticed a new kind of flaky tests on the slow free tier GitHub Action runners: Integration tests were...
Any form fields where users enter numbers should be an . Numeric inputs have several benefits over : On mobile or tablet...
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' }. When running tests in a real browser...
A Rails script lives in lib/scripts and is run with bin/rails runner lib/scripts/.... They are a simple tool to perform...
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...
You can ignore certain commits when using git blame with the --ignore-revs-file option. This is handy to ignore...
The linked article suggests an interesting way to speed up tests of Rails + Postgres apps: PostgreSQL allows the creation of...
In the Gitlab settings the flag Auto-cancel redundant pipelines is enabled by default. This auto-cancels pipelines with jobs...
A general overview about why and how we migrate can be found under Migrating from Elasticsearch to Opensearch
In Capistrano 3, your Capfile requires 'capistrano/rails/migrations', which brings two Capistrano tasks: deploy:migrate and deploy:migrating. The former checks...