This card shows an uncommon way to retrieve a file using selenium where JavaScript is used to return a binary...

Some rubygems come in platform-specific versions (i.e. "x86_64-linux") in addition to the usual "ruby" platform. This is...

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Debouncing a method call delays its execution until after a specified time has passed. If it's called again before...

You might know a few examples, where you configure some library via a block. One example is the Rails configuration...

This cards describes an example with a Github Client on how to keep your Rails application more maintainable by extracting...

This card is a short summary on different ways of assigning multiple attributes to an instance of a class.

ActiveModel classes have a class method .human_attribute_name. This returns a human-readable form of the attribute: Person.human_attribute...

In Rails 7.1 it has become possible to annotate partials with the locals they expect: # partial _user_name.erb <%# locals: (user:) %>

If an view spec crashes due to undefined helper methods, you can enable this option: # config/application.rb config.action_controller.include_all_helpers = true...

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Your commit messages should include the ID of the issue your code belongs to. Our preferred syntax prefixes the issue...

This card describes four variants, that add a more intuitive workflow when working with nested attributes in Rails + Unpoly:

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...

This card describes different flavors for concatting HTML safe strings in a helper method in Rails. You might want to...

...HTML elements can automatically start playing when the autoplay attribute is set on them. Except for when they can not...

Why do we migrate? Due to a change in licensing, we cannot provide Elasticsearch versions >= 8.0. Version 7.17.x will...

Debugging performance issues in your Rails app can be a tough challenge. To get more detailed insights consider using the...

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There are two ways a logout in SAML can happen: Service Provider (SP) initiated and Identity Provider (IDP) initiated logout...

Note Using rem only ever makes sense when the root font size is dynamic, i.e. you leave control to the...

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...

tl;dr Prefer request specs over end-to-end tests (Capybara) to joyfully test file downloads! Why? Testing file downloads

It's 2024 and we have tools like ffmpeg, imagemagick and GPT readily available. With them, it's easy to...