I recently enjoyed debugging a Cucumber step that tried to be retryable using a patiently block: Then /^"([^"]*)" should( not)? be...
Using ActiveRecord's #signed_id and .find_signed methods you can create URLs that expire after some time. No conditionals...
When an object is created / updated, various callbacks are executed in this order: before_validation after_validation before_save
Bundler so far ignored the version specified under BUNDLED_WITH in the Gemfile.lock. This had two annoying consequences:
In a Jasmine spec you want to spy on a function that is imported by the code under test. This...
In esbuild, you usually import other files using relative paths: import './some-related-module' import `../../utils/some-utility-module` import `../../../css/some-css.sass` This is totally fine...
tl;dr You should decouple migrations from models by embedding models into the migration. To use STI in this scenario...
As a developer you may have many tools watching your project for changes: Your IDE, Webpack, Guard, etc. This is...
Hide/Show Drawer You can press Escape to show/hide the drawer. Fast Navigation with Command Menu Use Ctrl + Shift + p to...
tl;dr In Chrome DevTools in the Layouts tab you have handy options to debug CSS Flexbox and Grid. Including...
sass >= 1.35.0 has the option quietDeps and silenceDeprecations to silence deprecation warnings from dependencies. quietDeps: No deprecation warnings for dependencies...
tl;dr In Chrome DevTools in the Sources tab you can activate Event Listener Breakpoints for debugging events. Example
tl;dr In Chrome DevTools in the Elements tab or in Firefox in the Inspector tab you can right click...
ActiveType::Object inherits from ActiveRecod::Base and is designed to behave like an ActiveRecord Object, just without the database...
Unpoly's [up-observe], [up-autosubmit] and [up-validate] as well as their programmatic variants up.observe() and up.autosubmit...
You can use ETags to allow clients to use cached responses, if your application would send the same contents as...
Here are a few common patterns that will probably lead to flaky specs. If you notice them in your specs...
tl;dr git checkout is the swiss army of git commands. If you prefer a semantically more meaningful command for...
New versions of wkhtmltopdf dissallow file:// URLs by default. You can allow them by passing --enable-local-file-access.
You have uncommited changes (you can always check by using git status), which you want to discard.
tl;dr In RubyMine you can use find and replace with capture groups (.*?) and backreferences $1 (if you have several...
To allow HTTP 304 responses, Rails offers the fresh_when method for controllers. The most common way is to pass...
Greg Molnar has written a neat article about creating a single-file Rails app. This is not meant for production...
When working with feature branches, stale branches pile up over time. It's best to remove them right after merge...