After switching a project from Sprockets to Webpack, I started observing a bug that was hard to debug: Our...
Accessing other repositories in Gitlab CI is not straight forward, since the access rights of the current pipeline might not...
In case your integration tests crash with a message like below, try to upgrade Capybara to a newer version (3.35.3...
Capybara added a deprecation warning in version 3.35.3 (version from 2019) that shows up if your selector is not of...
The Node Version Manager allows installing multiple NodeJS versions and switching between them. By default, it does not automatically switch...
We recently noticed issues with Chrome 75+ when having the w3c option enabled within the Selenium webdriver. It looks like...
When giving a presentation where you do some coding, the font size you usually use is probably a bit too...
When testing JavaScript functionality in Selenium (E2E), you may need to access a class or function inside of a evaluate...
We have observed Lenovo laptops with nvidia graphics losing performance after they have been in use for a few minutes...
I encountered a unlucky behavior of byebug 11.1.3 (the most recent version at time of writing) when using it with...
While renaming a file sometimes feels like "dropping its history", that is not true: Just use git log --follow on...
Browsers usually cache website content in order to provide the user with faster responses. Examples are returning to a website...
You can publish pre-release versions of an npm package. Naming convention for pre-release versions An npm package must...
When a Ruby version gem has a letter in its version number, it is considered a pre-release:
When deleting a record in your Rails app, Carrierwave automatically takes care of removing all associated files. However, the file...
This card is a general reminder to avoid the short version of a command option in shared code. It's...
Installing gems on a server that has no access to the internet (especially rubygems.org) requires to bundle the gems into...
If a project ist configured to spawn CI runners for tests or deployment when pushing to the Repo, a habit...
In newer passenger versions the output of passenger -v has changed. capistrano-passenger tries to parse the version and now...
Ruby 3.0 introduced a breaking change in how it treats keyword arguments. There is an excellent blog post on the...
When your Rails application server raises error, Capybara will fail your test when it clears the session after the last...
When your application is open for public sign up and sends out transactional e-mails to a large number of...
In Ruby (almost) everything is an Object. While this enables a lot of powerful features, this concept might be confusing...
We had the issue, that a VCR spec failed, after updating CarrierWave from version 0.11.0 to 1.3.2. In this version...