Fresh Chrome installations now show a "Choose your search engine" popup in Europe. This might make your Cucumber tests fail...
This card is a short summary on different ways of assigning multiple attributes to an instance of a class.
Using Capistrano, we usually have some array configurations in the config/deploy.rb file, like set :linked_files, %w[config/database.yml], so in...
ActiveModel classes have a class method .human_attribute_name. This returns a human-readable form of the attribute: Person.human_attribute...
When you mocked method calls in RSpec, they are mocked until the end of a spec, or until you explicitly...
In Rails 7.1 it has become possible to annotate partials with the locals they expect: # partial _user_name.erb <%# locals: (user:) %>
After an upgrade to rails 7 I noticed that async reindexing jobs of Searchkick were failing for Model.reindex(mode: :async...
If you are using the routing-filter gem in your Rails 7.1 app for managing URL segments for locales or...
tl;dr Do not use the option optional on association declarations with a symbol, lambda or proc. Explanation Association declarations...
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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Raising errors for required and permitted attributes makes it easier to find errors in your application during development and in...
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...
Debugging performance issues in your Rails app can be a tough challenge. To get more detailed insights consider using the...
There are two ways a logout in SAML can happen: Service Provider (SP) initiated and Identity Provider (IDP) initiated logout...
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...
If you need to make an HTTPS connection to a host which uses an expired certificate, do not disable certificate...
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...
If you want to system-wide disable the microphone of your external webcam in PulseAudio use the following one-liners...