Since Rails 7 you are able to encrypt database information with Active Record. Using Active Record Encryption will store an...
Sometimes I ran across a GitHub merge request of a gem where it was not completely obvious in which version...
To retrieve only unique combinations of the selected attributes: You can omit rows, where all selected columns are equal with...
Rails includes milliseconds in Time / DateTime objects when rendering them as JSON: JSON.parse(User.last.to_json)['created_at'] #=> "2001-01-01...
Sometimes, the rails dev server doesn't terminate properly. This can for example happen when the dev server runs in...
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
TLDR if you define a equality method for a class you must also implement def hash. Ruby has a lot...
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.
Usually, Unpoly compiler destructors are returned from the compiler function. However, when using async compiler functions, you can not register...
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...
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...
tl;dr In Chrome DevTools in the Layouts tab you have handy options to debug CSS Flexbox and Grid. Including...
While in CSS zero is usually referenced without specifying a unit (e.g. padding: 0), you must not use a unitless...
Large Rails projects tend to define multiple custom ways to format Dates or DateTimes. This often leads to duplicated format...
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...