Debugging performance issues in your Rails app can be a tough challenge. To get more detailed insights consider using the...
Developing or debugging SAML functionality can be a hassle, especially when you need to go back and forth with someone...
10.0.0 2024-03-07 Compatible changes console command: You can now globally disable the IRB multiline feature by setting irb...
You can chain multiple Capybara matchers on the page or any element: expect(page) .to have_content('Example Course')
A common cause of non-accessible web pages are elements that were made interactive via JavaScript but cannot be focused...
These are the top ten accessibility errors as researched by TPGi, a company focusing on accessibility. See the linked article...
Today I stumbled across a pretty harmless-looking query in our application which turned out to be pretty harmful and...
All browsers implement an event named beforeunload. It is fired when the active window is closed and can be used...
I recently noticed a new kind of flaky tests on the slow free tier GitHub Action runners: Integration tests were...
Sometimes you have a file that is related to a project, while not actually being part of it. You'd...
A Rails script lives in lib/scripts and is run with bin/rails runner lib/scripts/.... They are a simple tool to perform...
There are a few tools to combat the dreaded n+1 queries. The bullet gem notifies you of missing eager...
Version 3.7.0 broke some things in complex forms. Sorry for that. Concurrent user input is hard. 3.7.1 This change fixes...
The linked article suggests an interesting way to speed up tests of Rails + Postgres apps: PostgreSQL allows the creation of...
In Capistrano 3, your Capfile requires 'capistrano/rails/migrations', which brings two Capistrano tasks: deploy:migrate and deploy:migrating. The former checks...
#pluck is commonly used as a performant way to retain single database values from an ActiveRecord::Relation Book.pluck(:title, :price...
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
While upgrading CarrierWave from version 0.11.x to 3.x, we encountered some very nasty fails. Below are the basic...
TLDR Using .includes or .eager_load with 1-n associations is dangerous. Always use .preload instead. Consider the following ActiveRecord...
Given you have an array column like this: create_table "users", force: :cascade do |t| t.integer "movie_ids", default: [], array...
The recommended additional setup of the spreewald gem, a useful set of cucumber steps, includes adding a file for defining...
We regularly have tasks that need to be performed around a deploy. Be it to notify operations about changed application...
Chromedriver (or selenium-webdriver?) will not reliably scroll elements into view before clicking them, and actually not click the element...