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...
This is an extract from the linked article. It shows an approach on how to implement encrypted passwords with the...
Rails 5.2+ supports "verbose query logs" where it shows the source of a query in the application log.
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.
When writing some logs to a file, that don't use Ruby's logger utility, it is often useful to...
If you have a Ruby Pathname, you can use the method :/ to append filepaths to it. With this method, Ruby...
Ruby's File class has a handy method binary? which checks whether a file is a binary file. This method...
If you want to prevent that two processes run some code at the same time you can use the gem...
CSP hat zum Ziel einen Browser-seitigen Mechanismus zu schaffen um einige Angriffe auf Webseiten zu verhindern, hauptsächlich XSS...
We're pleased to announce Ruby 3’s new language for type signatures, RBS. One of the long-stated goals...
GoodJob is a new background worker gem. It's compatible with ActiveJob. We're huge fans of Sidekiq for its...
These warnings are printed when the etc Gem is installed, while etc is also included in Ruby. Fix with:
"Open-source software (OSS) is great. Anyone can use virtually any open-source code in their projects." Well, it depends...
Nokogiri is great. It will even fix invalid HTML for you, like a browser would (e.g. move block elements out...