<soapenv:Envelope>
  <soapenv:Body>
    <elem>
      <nest>...</nest>
    </elem> 
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

CSS selectors are a very simple tool to select elements from a Nokogiri document. However, the colon in the XML namespace syntax does not work with CSS. When selecting namespaced elements, you need to replace their colon (soapenv:Envelope) with a pipe (soapenv|Envelope):

document = Nokogiri::XML(xml)
nest = document.at_css 'soapenv|Envelope soapenv|Body elem nest'

Running Cucumber tests while your cucumber.yml is 100% valid may still produce the following error.

cucumber.yml was found, but could not be parsed. Please refer to cucumber's documentation on correct profile usage.

This may in fact be due to your rerun file (e.g. tmp/rerun.txt) being invalid. Delete it and try again.

betterspecs.org is a documentation on how to write better RSpec tests.

Note that there are also other approaches like The Self-Contained Test, which is complementary to the dry-approches in betterspecs. Like usual you need to weight the different recommendation and there is no rule of thumb for all specs.

With Rspec you can mock objects or functions, for example like this:

expect(my_object).to receive(:my_function).and_return('hello world')

It's also easy to remove mocks for an object:

RSpec::Mocks.space.proxy_for(my_object).reset

We use the whenever gem to automatically update the crontab of the servers we deploy to. By default, whenever will update all servers with a matching role (we use the :cron role ).

This card describes how to install some tasks only for a given Rails environment or for a given Capistrano stage ("deployment target").

Installing jobs only for a given Rails environment
-----------------------------------...

When you call a method on an object, Ruby looks for the implementation of that method. It looks in the following places and uses the first implementation it finds:

1. Methods from the object's singleton class (an unnamed class that only exists for that object)
2. Methods from prepended modules (Ruby 2.0+ feature)
3. Methods from the object's class
4. Methods from included modules
5. Methods from the class hierarchy (superclass and its an...

This seems to be obvious, but you can expect Rake tasks to be called in RSpec.

it 'deletes all Users' do
   FactroyBot.create(:user)
   expect(Rake::Task['notify:critical_operation']).to receive(:invoke)
   
   expect { described_class.clean }.to change(User, :count).from(1).to(0) 
end

Note: Try to avoid logic in rake tasks and prefer to just call classes in them.

Example:

desc 'Some task'
task :some_task do
  SomeClass.new.run
end

Using git fixup helps you to speed up appending changes further back in the git history of your feature branch.

Example:

git commit --fixup aabbcc # Create a commit with the message "fixup! Commit message of aabbcc"
git rebase -i --autosquash master

It would be nice if you could use this feature without the -i flag, but until now it seems not to be possible. Read more about our recommended git workflow for feature branches.

Also have a look at [git shortcut to use git fixup](https://makandracards.com/makand...

Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home:

1. Install mysql-sandbox

sudo apt install mysql-sandbox

2. Download the version of MySQL you want to use from mysql.com:
   https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/file/?id=480427
   Make sure to choose "Generic Linux" instead of "Ubuntu" so you get a .tar.gz instead of .deb

3. cd into the directory the mysql binaries will be extracted to

mkdir -p ~/bin/sandbox_dist
cd ~/bin/sandbox_dist

4. Build the sandbox

make_sandbo...

Sometimes it is useful to define a named scope by implementing a static method with the scope's name on the scoped class. For instance, when a method should decide which existing scope should be the next link in the scope chain. Take this class for example:

class Meal < ActiveRecord::Base

  named_scope :for_date, lambda { |date| :conditions => { :date => date }}
  named_scope :with_meat, :conditions => { :meat => true }
  named_scope :without_meat, :conditions => { :meat => false }

  def self.suitable_for(user)
    if user.vegetar...

You can install rubygems 3.0.8 (released on February 18, 2020) to keep all the Gem::Specification#rubyforge_project deprecation warnings away from your development log. With Rubygems >= 3.1 this deprecation warning was introduced. While maintaining older projects this could get quite annoying and the fix below might okey, for newer projects the right ways is to upgrade the gems.

gem update --system 3.0.8

Example message:

NOTE: Gem::Specification#rubyforge_project= is deprecated with no replacement. It will be removed o...

When you have many changes, and you want to spread them across different commits, here is a way to stage all changes matching a given regular expression for a single commit.

Example

Consider the following git diff output.

diff --git a/file1.rb b/file1.rb
index 806ca88..36d536b 100644
--- a/file1.rb
+++ b/file1.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-# Here is a useless comment.
-# It will be removed.
 class File1
-  def foo
+  def bar
     # ...
   end
 end
diff --git a/file2.rb b/file2.rb
index 550e1c6..600f4e3 100644
--- a/file2.rb
+++ b/file2...

The linked GitHub repository is a bit like our "dev" cards deck, but groomed from a single person (Josh Branchaud). It includes an extensive list of over 900 TILs on many topics that might be interesting for most of us. (e.g. Ruby, Rails, Git, Unix..)

Ruby

Here is an excerpt of all the Ruby TILs that were new to me. I encourage you to take your time to skim over the original list as well!

• Assoc For Hashes
  • `Hash#ass...

With puma you can have concurrent requests. There are two concepts on how Puma can handle two incoming requests: Workers and Threads.

Workers

Puma can have multiple workers. Each worker is a process fork from puma and therefore a very heavy instance and can have multiple threads, that handle the incoming requests.

Example: A Puma server with 2 workers and 1 thread each can handle 2 request in parallel. A third request has to wait until the thread of one of the workers is free.

Threads

Rails is thread-safe since version 4 (n...

Simplecov is a code coverage tool. This helps you to find out which parts of your application are not tested.

Integrating this in a rails project with rspec, cucumber and parallel_tests is easy.

1. Add it to your Gemfile and bundle

   group :test do
     gem 'simplecov', require: false
   end
   

2. Add a .simplecov file in your project root:

   SimpleCov.start 'rails' do
     # any custom configs like groups and filters can be here at a central place
     enable_cov...
   

"Everything in Ruby is an object". This is also true for nested hashes and arrays. If you copy a hash with #clone or #dup and you modify the copy, you will run into the following behavior:

original_hash = { foo: { bar: 'original value' } }
copied_hash = original_hash.dup
copied_hash[:foo][:bar] = 'changed value'

original_hash # => { foo: { bar: "changed value" }

This is, because { bar: 'baz' } is an object, which is referenced in :foo. The copy of original_hash still holds the reference to the same object, so alterin...

Chrome allows you to throttle the Network and the CPU. Both settings are useful to measure the performance of you application and reproduce performance issues (Example Debugging frontend performance issues with Chrome DevTools).

You find the settings in: DevTools > Performance > Capture Settings (Gear icon in the right corner) > `CPU: No...

Intro

Embedding videos on a website is very easy, add a <video> tag to your source code and it just works. Most of the time.

The thing is: Both the operating system and Browser of your client must support the container and codecs of your video. To ensure playback on every device, you have to transcode your videos to one or more versions of which they are supported by every device out there.

In this card, I'll explore the available audio and video standards we have right now. The goal is to built a pipeline that...

By default, Devise redirects to a sign-in form when accessing a route that requires authentication. If for some reason you do not want this, but use Basic Authentication (and the corresponding browser username/password dialog) instead, this is a simple change.

Note that Devise's default configuration actually only redirects requests for HTML content (as requested by the HTTP Accept header).
For all other formats (like JSON) it would use Basic Auth if the http_authenticatable setting was enabled. So you can simply enable that flag and cl...

Code comments allow for adding human readable text right next to the code: notes for other developers, and for your future self. You can imagine comments as post-its (or sometimes multi-sheet letters ...) on real-world objects like cupboards, light switches etc.

As always, with power comes responsibility. Code comments can go wrong in many ways: they may become outdated, silently move away from the code they're referring to, restate the obvious, or just clutter files.

Good Comments

Here are some simple rules to keep your comments help...