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When you use Sentry to monitor exceptions, an important feature is Sentry's error grouping mechanism. It will aggregate similar...
In Ruby on Rails, all the routes of a given application can be found within the config/routes.rb file.
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Ruby's File class has a handy method binary? which checks whether a file is a binary file. This method...
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CSP hat zum Ziel einen Browser-seitigen Mechanismus zu schaffen um einige Angriffe auf Webseiten zu verhindern, hauptsächlich XSS...
"Open-source software (OSS) is great. Anyone can use virtually any open-source code in their projects." Well, it depends...
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RubyMine has a HTTP Client that can be useful to test web APIs. Just create a .http scratch file an...
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If you render markdown from user input, an attacker might be able to use this to inject javascript code into...
We use CarrierWave in many of our projects to store and serve files of various formats - mostly images. A common...
The linked GitHub repository is a bit like our "dev" cards deck, but groomed from a single person (Josh Branchaud...
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Test-Driven Development (TDD) in its most dogmatic form (red-green-refactor in micro-iterations) can be tedious. It does...
A recent patch level Ruby update caused troubles to some of us as applications started to complain about incompatible gem...
Embedding videos on a website is very easy, add a tag to your source code and it just works...
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Ruby's Net::HTTP library repeats a failing request once, as long as it deems it idempotent (GET, HEAD etc...
You can use the CSS property mask-image to define an "alpha channel" for an element. E.g. to let an...
TLS/SSL certificates are often used for HTTPS traffic. Occasionally a service may also use their TLS certificate to support public...
This is a personal post-mortem analysis of a project that was mainly build to provide a REST API to...