When requests arrive at the application servers simultaneously, weird things can happen. Sometimes, this can also happen if a user double-clicks on a button, for example.

This often leads to problems, as two object instances are modified in parallel maybe by different code and one of the requests writes the results to the database.

In case you want to make sure that only one of the requests "wins", i.e. one of the requests is fully executed and completed while the other one at least has to wait for the first request to be completed, you ha…

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Schritt 1: Dein Problem besser kennen lernen

Grenze das Problem ein

Ein erster Schritt bei der Problemsuche ist immer, den Ort im Quelltext einzugrenzen, der das unge…

In applications without a sign-up, user accounts are usually created by an admin. This imposes two challenges:

• How to transmit the password securely and
• How to make the user change the initial password immediately

There is a simple solution: create the account with a secret password, then ask the user to use the password reset with his user name.

After loading a staging dump into development, you might get an ActiveRecord::EnvironmentMismatchError when trying to replace the database (like rails db:drop, rails db:schema:load).

$ rails db:drop
rails aborted!
ActiveRecord::EnvironmentMismatchError: You are attempting to modify a database that was last run in `staging` environment.
You are running in `development` environment. If you are sure you want to continue, first set the environment using:

        bin/rails db:environment:set RAILS_ENV=development

Starting with R…

Simply add this to your .rspec instead:

--require spec_helper

If you are on rspec >= 3 and use a rails_helper.rb require this instead of the spec_helper:

--require rails_helper

If you are using parallel_tests and this is not working for you, .rspec might be ignored. Try using a .rspec_parallel file.

Sometimes it's nice to have some coloring in your logs for better readability. You can output your logs via tail and pipe this through sed to add ANSI color annotations (which your console then interprets).

To print a log (e.g. rails log) and color all lines containing "FATAL" in red and all lines with "INFO" in green:

tail -f /path/to/log | sed --unbuffered -e 's/\(.*INFO.*\)/\o033[32m\1\o033[39m/' -e 's/\(.*FATAL.*\)/\o033[31m\1\o033[39m/'

Here are the …

To find an input with the type hidden, you need to specify the type hidden:

find_field('Some label', type: :hidden)

Otherwise you will see an exception :

find_field('Some label')
# => Capybara::ElementNotFound: Unable to find field "Some label" that is not disabled`.

Note: Usually you don't need to check the input of hidden fields in an integration test. But e.g. waiting for a datepicker library to write the expected value to this field before continuing the test, which prevents flaky tests, is a valid use case.

If you need to test some HTML, e.g. an embed code, you can use RubyMine's "scratch files":

1. File > New Scratch File (or Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Ins)
2. Select "HTML" as file type
3. Write or paste the HTML
4. Move your mouse to the upper right corner of the scratch file editor. Pick a browser to instantly open your file.

We can use ActiveRecord's where to add conditions to a relation. But sometimes our condition is not on the model itself, but on an associated model. This card explains multiple ways to express this condition using ActiveRecord's query interface (without writing SQL).

As an example we will use a User that has many Posts:

```ruby
class User < ApplicationRecord
has_many :posts
scope :active, -> { tra…

You can use the CSS property mask-image to define an "alpha channel" for an element.

E.g. to let an element start at full opacity at the top and gradually fade into transparency at the bottom:

.box {
  -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, black 0%, transparent 100%)
  mask-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, black 0%, transparent 100%)
}

• A fully opaque black pixel will render the masked pixel fully opaque
• A fully transparent black pixel will render the ma…

ActiveRecord has a feature called counter caching where the containing record in a has_many relationship caches the number of its children. E.g. when you have House has_many :rooms, Rails can cache the number of rooms in House#rooms_count.

Mind that when a model has a column that looks to Rails like a counter-cache column, Rails will apply counter-cache logic to your model, even if you're not using counter caches.

E.g. you have a house with 12 rooms, but `house.r…

TLS/SSL certificates are often used for HTTPS traffic. Occasionally a service may also use their TLS certificate to support public-key encrypting data (e.g. when it is part of the URI and visible to the user, but contains sensitive information).

Here is how to easily fetch such certificate data.

certificate = Net::HTTP.start('example.com', 443, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.peer_cert }
# => #<OpenSSL::X509::Certificate: subject=#<OpenSSL::X509::Name CN=www.example.org,...>

certificate.public_key
# => #<OpenSSL::PKey::RSA:0x...