Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote...

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tl;dr git checkout is the swiss army of git commands. If you prefer a semantically more meaningful command for...

You have uncommited changes (you can always check by using git status), which you want to discard.

If you need to convert an SVG source to PS or EPS, the most common suggestion on the interwebs is...

Working with a self-signed certificate is much easier, when the browser accepts it. Google Chrome Warnings from chrome might...

Sometimes the need arises for SSL in local development. We have guides for different webservers, this one is for puma...

These are the results of the "personal tech stack survey". I've included only the most popular mentions, maybe it...

This should be fixed in the latest LTS-branches of our mysql2 fork, 0.2.x-lts and 0.3.x-lts...

Recent IRB versions include a multi-line autocomplete which may be helpful to novice users but can be distracting.

It might sometimes be useful to check whether your Rails application accesses the file system unnecessarily, for example if your...

Testing file download links in an end-to-end test can be painful, especially with Selenium. The attached download_helpers.rb provides...

Code quality can be measured in four levels: (Working code) Reliable code (minimum) Readable code (ok for short-lived code...

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You'll need openssl-3 or newer for servers running 22.04 Ruby version 3.1 uses by default the gem openssl...

There is a way to use multiple databases in Rails. You may have asked yourself how you're able to...

When you need information about a gem (like version(s) or install path(s)), you can use the gem binary...

Redis.current will be removed without replacement in redis-rb 5.0. Version 4.6.0 adds deprecation warnings for Redis.current and Redis.current=: `Redis.current...

While we are used to run our JavaScript tests on a test page within our Browser, it's also possible...

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To ensure a consistent code style for JavaScript code, we use ESLint. The workflow is similar to integrating rubocop...

This are the steps I needed to do to add esbuild to an application that used the vanilla rails asset...

We use foreman to start all necessary processes for an application, which are declared in a Procfile. This is very...

Building application assets with esbuild is the new way to do it, and it's great, especially in combination with...

Attaching files to a field that is handled by Carrierwave uploaders (or maybe any other attachment solution for Rails) in...

Sometimes you need to access a dev server running on localhost from another machine that is not part of the...

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In my case [...] the catalog is an XML that contains all kinds of possible products, categories and vendors and it...