In case Ruby does not detected the expected encoding of a file automatically you can specify the known encoding manually...
In Ruby you can communicate between processes with sockets. This might be helpful in tests that validate parallel executions or...
The Truemail gem (not to be confused with truemail.io) allows validating email addresses, e.g. when users enter them into a...
The ExceptionNotification has plugins that talk to external APIs rather then just sends emails, like microsoft teams or slack. You...
Ruby offers monkey patching methods in order to change the behavior of a library if there's no better way...
Ruby's String#split returns an array of substrings from the given string. Usually, this is missing the split characters...
SSHKit 1.9.0 might fail with the following error, when trying to deploy a Rail application. Upgrading the gem to version...
Using Ruby 1.8.7 you will not be able to use the maximum versions Rubygems 1.8.30 and Bundler 1.17.3 with https://...
When deploying a Rails application that is using Webpacker and Capistrano, there are a few configuration tweaks that optimize the...
IRB 1.2 (shipped with Ruby 2.7, but works on 2.5+) brings pretty syntax highlighting and multiline cursor navigation. However, pasting...
Git diffs show the surrounding contexts for diff hunks. It does so by applying regular expressions to find the beginning...
If you have installed Rubocop in your project, RubyMine can show you Rubocop violations immediately in your editor. You probably...
curl-to-ruby is a handy tool that converts your curl command to ruby code that uses the Net::HTTP...
In Rubocop you might notice the cop Style/CaseEquality for e.g. this example: def foo(expected, actual) expected === actual end
Here is a short summary of Cucumber hooks in Ruby taken from https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby. Note that the BeforeStep is...
We currently test most of our gems on Travis CI, but want to migrate those tests to Github Actions. This...
On some of our older projects, we use the mysql2 gem. Unfortunately, versions 0.2.x (required for Rails 2.3) and...
Installing old Rubies (<= 2.3) with a standard rbenv + ruby-build is no longer possible on Ubuntu 20.04. This is because...
The sidekiq-rate-limiter gem allows rate-limiting Sidekiq jobs and works like a charm. However, it needs to be...
If you're using the webdrivers gem and VCR together, depending on your configuration, VCR will yell at you regulary...
Pagy is a gem for pagination. They make some bold claims: Pagy is the ultimate pagination gem that outperforms the...
If you want to get the path of a file relative to another, you can use the expand_path method...
To find a version containing the regular expression foo in the history of any branch: git grep foo $(git rev...
Ruby Jard provides a rich Terminal UI that visualizes everything your need, navigates your program with pleasure, stops at matter...