Sometimes I ran across a GitHub merge request of a gem where it was not completely obvious in which version...
When you use the :as option to map a power to a controller method you can now override the generated...
The linked article shows how metapogramming macros can use define_method to make a method that can be overridden with...
After upgrading to Rails 6.1.7.2 one of our apps printed a wall of warnings while booting: /var/www/app/shared/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/net-protocol-0.2.1/lib/net/protocol.rb:68: warning: already...
The linked article found a simple way to rewrite legacy git aliases to make them work with differently named default...
Let's assume that we have a model Movie that registers a callback function when a new instance of Movie...
I recently enjoyed debugging a Cucumber step that tried to be retryable using a patiently block: Then /^"([^"]*)" should( not)? be...
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:
Our CI setup frequently sees this error while running yarn install: yarn install v1.22.19 [1/4] Resolving packages... [2/4] Fetching packages...
Timecop is a great gem to set the current time in tests. However, it is easy to introduce flakyness to...
In a Jasmine spec you want to spy on a function that is imported by the code under test. This...
We usually rely on VCR and WebMock to prevent any real network connection when running our unit tests.
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...
Jasmine specs for the frontend often need some DOM elements to work with. Because creating them is such a common...
Jasmine specs that work with DOM elements often leave elements in the DOM after they're done. This will leak...
This can happen with a very simple model: class Note has_many :attachments end Everything looks normal: Note.all.to_a.size # => 8 Note.all.ids.size...
Large Rails projects tend to define multiple custom ways to format Dates or DateTimes. This often leads to duplicated format...
Git allows you to set push options when pushing a branch to the remote. You can use this to build...
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...
tl;dr git checkout is the swiss army of git commands. If you prefer a semantically more meaningful command for...
tl;dr git checkout is the swiss army of git commands. If you prefer a semantically more meaningful command for...
You have uncommited changes (you can always check by using git status), which you want to discard.