It is possible to access Rails config (for example secrets) from within your webpack bundles, thanks to rails-erb-loader...
Phusion Passenger changed the way how it gets restarted several times. Through the project's history, these all were valid...
In this example we assume that not only the storage gem changes but also the file structure on disc.
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is an attack pattern for websites. A CSRF attack is usually relevant in a...
A JavaScript error in an E2E test with Selenium will not cause your test to fail. This may cause you...
Most forms have a single submit button that will save the record when pressed. Sometimes a form needs additional submit...
At makandra, we've built a few gems over the years. Some of these are quite popular: spreewald (> 1M downloads...
When you receive a ZIP file from a Windows user, umlauts and other non-latin1 characters in filenames may look...
Option 1: JSON dump In config/webpack/environment.js you can get inspect environment which includes all webpack config options set for the...
Why secure-only cookies used to be necessary Cookies have an optional secure flag. It tells the browser to not...
Background information about session storage in Rails Rails has a default mechanism to store the session in the CookieStore. This...
In medium-sized to large Rails applications, asset compilation can take several minutes. In order to speed up deployment, asset...
CoffeeScript and JavaScript (ECMAScript) both have operators in and of. Each language use them for more than one purpose. There...
When your application is running on a multi-server setup, application logs are stored per server (unless you choose a...
By default, Capistrano truncates server responses and places an ellipsis at the end of lines that are longer than your...
If your rails application is unable to send mails, it might be useful to debug your settings using the rails...
When you need test images, instead of using services like lorempixel or placehold.it you may generate test images yourself.
Boot partitions from installations prior to the 16.04 era are terribly small. When you install updates and encounter errors due...
geordi delete_dumps [directory] Recursively search for files ending in *.dump and offer to delete those. When no...
You might have some trouble running a Rails LTS 2 app with MySQL 5.7. If you don't want to...
MySQL and MariaDB have an SQL mode setting which changes how MySQL behaves. The SQL mode value is comprised of...
The httpclient gem comes with a custom SSL cert store. While an customizable, application-level cert store is great when...
Running rails server will start a local server that you can access via http://localhost:3000. When you are working...
We often use the Then console step from spreewald in combination with geordi vnc from geordi to debug tests within...