The ExceptionNotification has plugins that talk to external APIs rather then just sends emails, like microsoft teams or slack. You...
Headless Chrome is a way to run the Chrome browser without a visible window. Configuring Capybara Configure the Capybara driver...
SSHKit 1.9.0 might fail with the following error, when trying to deploy a Rail application. Upgrading the gem to version...
Whenever requires you to set the application attribute in your Capistrano configuration. Otherwise your cronjobs are created multiple times.
Liquid Prompt gives you a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when you need it. It shows you what you...
Sometimes you accidentally generate entries in the bash history that you do not want to have there (e.g. commands with...
Git diffs show the surrounding contexts for diff hunks. It does so by applying regular expressions to find the beginning...
curl-to-ruby is a handy tool that converts your curl command to ruby code that uses the Net::HTTP...
Ubuntu 18.04 uses systemd to manage services. There are basically two commands for listing all services and manipulating the state...
We currently test most of our gems on Travis CI, but want to migrate those tests to Github Actions. This...
If you're experiencing problems with your Google Chrome installation after an update, it might help downgrading Chrome to check...
On some of our older projects, we use the mysql2 gem. Unfortunately, versions 0.2.x (required for Rails 2.3) and...
While debugging a SPF record I found spf-record.de to be very helpful. it lists all IPs that are covered by...
Installing old Rubies (<= 2.3) with a standard rbenv + ruby-build is no longer possible on Ubuntu 20.04. This is because...
Fix: downgrade net-ssh to version 2.9.1.
When loading a database dump created with pg_dump into your database, you might run into an error like
It sometimes happen that a database dump, that would want to insert into your development database, does not match the...
.desktop files define launchers for applications installed on your machine. They specify the command that will be executed when launched...
If you're using the webdrivers gem and VCR together, depending on your configuration, VCR will yell at you regulary...
After a recent Ubuntu update I didn't see the main menu bar of the RubyMine IDE (File | Edit | View...
Rails middlewares are small code pieces that wrap requests to the application. The first middleware gets passed the request, invokes...
I experienced a lot of issues with google chrome that made it almost impossible to work with it. Here are...
Ruby's File class has a handy method binary? which checks whether a file is a binary file. This method...
grep is the go-to CLI tool to accomplish tasks like filtering large files for arbitrary keywords. When additional context...