Added: State machine can now use the :prefix-option to avoid name collision if you define multiple state machines on...
Getting CSS (and JS) live reloading to work in a esbuild / Rails project is a bit of a hassle, but...
Make sure that you use the correct property when editing an HTML attribute. Using innerHTML with unsafe arguments makes your...
In my career, I have consumed hundreds of REST APIs and produced dozens. Since I often see the same mistakes...
When you find similar groups of expect calls in your tests, you can improve readability by extracting the group into...
If you ever need to restore exact records from one database to another, Marshal might come in handy. Marshal.dump is...
The sprintf method has a reference by name format option: sprintf("% d : % f", { :foo => 1, :bar => 2 }) # => 1 : 2.000000
Ruby has the class Rational which allows you to store exact fractions. Any calculation on these variables will now use...
Even when you app has no CSS at all, you still inherit a default user agent stylesheet from your browser...
Every modern Rails app should have a Content Security Policy enabled. Very compatible default The following "default" is a minimal...
While upgrading CarrierWave from version 0.11.x to 3.x, we encountered some very nasty fails. Below are the basic...
All direct child directories of app are automatically added to the eager- and autoload paths. They do NOT create a...
On the Rails console, assigning an object to a variable can lead to this strange error (without stacktrace): irb > recipient...
TLDR Using .includes or .eager_load with 1-n associations is dangerous. Always use .preload instead. Consider the following ActiveRecord...
In the discussion of the difference between include and extend in Ruby, there is a misconception that extend would add...
Most of our applications use CarrierWave for file uploads. CarrierWave has an integrated processing mechanism for different file versions with...
I recently stumbled over a problem that my feature tests broke in CI because of a mismatching chromedriver version.
Given you have an array column like this: create_table "users", force: :cascade do |t| t.integer "movie_ids", default: [], array...
View specs are a powerful tool to test several rendering paths by their cases instead of using a more costing...
The recommended additional setup of the spreewald gem, a useful set of cucumber steps, includes adding a file for defining...
Note Don't use reruns as a mean to work around flaky tests. You should always try to fix those...
Do you remember finding where a method is defined? I recently that Method objects are quite useful within a debugging...
The linked rbenv plugin rbenv-each is very helpful to keep QoL gems up to date that are not part...
By default, Devise sends all emails synchronously with deliver_now. To change that, Devise's readme suggests overwriting the send...