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When debugging your application, you will come across objects created by some gem or framework. You don't have the...
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is an attack pattern for websites. A CSRF attack is usually relevant in a...
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Geordi provides a pretty neat way to generate beautiful commit messages according to your stories in Linear: geordi commit
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Let's say you have a gem which has the following module: module SuperClient def self.foo 'Foo' end
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Migrating data from a legacy into a new system can be a surprisingly large undertaking. We have done this a...
In general, the tracker should always be the definitive source of truth of what needs to be done as part...
In a project team for a bigger project people have several roles: Developer: at makandra Project lead: at makandra
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Background information about session storage in Rails Rails has a default mechanism to store the session in the CookieStore. This...
Whenever is a Ruby gem that provides a nicer syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs. Leading zeros are important...
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For outputting a given String in HTML, you mostly want to replace line breaks with or tags.
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When you have string contents (e.g. a generated binary stream, or data from a remote source) that you want to...
Form fields can be rendered as noneditable by setting the disabled or the readonly attribute. Be aware of the differences...
Note netstat has mostly been superseeded by its more modern rewrite ss which nowadays comes pre-installed rather than netstat...
Understanding your type of cronjob Some cronjobs must only run on a single server. E.g. when you run nightly batch...
TL;DR Use user.update!(remove_avatar: true) to delete attachments outside of forms. This will have the same behavior as...
This is a small example on how you can check if your Postgres index can be used by a specific...