While debugging a SPF record I found spf-record.de to be very helpful. it lists all IPs that are covered by...
When loading a database dump created with pg_dump into your database, you might run into an error like
It sometimes happen that a database dump, that would want to insert into your development database, does not match the...
The sidekiq-rate-limiter gem allows rate-limiting Sidekiq jobs and works like a charm. However, it needs to be...
If a model inherits from others or uses many concerns / traits, it might be hard to see in the code...
When logging in Rails, you can use the log_tags configuration option to add extra information to each line, like...
ActiveRecord provides the ids method to pluck ids from a scope, but what if you need to pluck Global IDs...
This is an extract from the linked article. It shows an approach on how to implement encrypted passwords with the...
A flat folder structure can be cool if you have only a few folders but can be painful for huge...
Rails 5.2+ supports "verbose query logs" where it shows the source of a query in the application log.
Learn how to create offline applications with service workers. The amazing power of service workers Writing your first service worker...
When you use Sentry to monitor exceptions, an important feature is Sentry's error grouping mechanism. It will aggregate similar...
Chrome has a built-in utility to check performance and accessibility (and more) of your web app: Lighthouse.
Rails middlewares are small code pieces that wrap requests to the application. The first middleware gets passed the request, invokes...
If you want to prevent that two processes run some code at the same time you can use the gem...
grep is the go-to CLI tool to accomplish tasks like filtering large files for arbitrary keywords. When additional context...
If you migrate a Rails application from Sprockets to Webpack(er), you can either transpile your CoffeeScript files to JavaScript...
CSP hat zum Ziel einen Browser-seitigen Mechanismus zu schaffen um einige Angriffe auf Webseiten zu verhindern, hauptsächlich XSS...
GoodJob is a new background worker gem. It's compatible with ActiveJob. We're huge fans of Sidekiq for its...
"Open-source software (OSS) is great. Anyone can use virtually any open-source code in their projects." Well, it depends...
If you have a :string or :text field, you should pair it with a model validation that restricts its length...
FactoryBot allows to create traits from Enums since version 6.0.0 The automatic definition of traits for Active Record enum attributes...
TL;DR PostgreSQL handles Rails 4+ text and string columns the same. Some libraries may still reflect on the column...
In a web application you sometimes have tasks that can not be processed during a request but need to go...