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...
4.0.0 2020-07-30 Compatible changes Improved documentation; README now includes command options. Improvement #90: geordi console, geordi deploy, geordi...
"Open-source software (OSS) is great. Anyone can use virtually any open-source code in their projects." Well, it depends...
There is a reasonable simple way to move data between Redis servers: Simply temporarily configure the new server as a...
We use the whenever gem to automatically update the crontab of the servers we deploy to. By default, whenever will...
This seems to be obvious, but you can expect Rake tasks to be called in RSpec. it 'deletes all Users...
When you have many changes, and you want to spread them across different commits, here is a way to stage...
The linked GitHub repository is a bit like our "dev" cards deck, but groomed from a single person (Josh Branchaud...
A recent patch level Ruby update caused troubles to some of us as applications started to complain about incompatible gem...