PostgreSQL has partial indexes. With a partial index you tell Postgres to only index rows matching a given query.
Systemd's networkd will drop IP-Addresses configured by other processes like Keepalived's VRRP, when it is restarted. This...
Rails supports alert and notice as default flash types. This allows you to use these keys as options in e.g...
I just finished migrating a project from the Asset Pipeline to Webpacker, this is what my diff to master looks...
SSHKit 1.9.0 might fail with the following error, when trying to deploy a Rail application. Upgrading the gem to version...
Using Ruby 1.8.7 you will not be able to use the maximum versions Rubygems 1.8.30 and Bundler 1.17.3 with https://...
When deploying a Rails application that is using Webpacker and Capistrano, there are a few configuration tweaks that optimize the...
IRB 1.2 (shipped with Ruby 2.7, but works on 2.5+) brings pretty syntax highlighting and multiline cursor navigation. However, pasting...
This card is mainly an explanation how variable fonts work in CSS, not necessarily a recommendation to actually use them...
Git diffs show the surrounding contexts for diff hunks. It does so by applying regular expressions to find the beginning...
Sometimes you want to find the inverse of an ActiveRecord scope. Depending on what you want to achieve, this is...
Ubuntu 18.04 uses systemd to manage services. There are basically two commands for listing all services and manipulating the state...
We currently test most of our gems on Travis CI, but want to migrate those tests to Github Actions. This...
If you're experiencing problems with your Google Chrome installation after an update, it might help downgrading Chrome to check...
On some of our older projects, we use the mysql2 gem. Unfortunately, versions 0.2.x (required for Rails 2.3) and...
Installing old Rubies (<= 2.3) with a standard rbenv + ruby-build is no longer possible on Ubuntu 20.04. This is because...
When loading a database dump created with pg_dump into your database, you might run into an error like
It sometimes happen that a database dump, that would want to insert into your development database, does not match the...
If you're using the webdrivers gem and VCR together, depending on your configuration, VCR will yell at you regulary...
If a model inherits from others or uses many concerns / traits, it might be hard to see in the code...
When logging in Rails, you can use the log_tags configuration option to add extra information to each line, like...
If you want to get the path of a file relative to another, you can use the expand_path method...
Rails 5.2+ supports "verbose query logs" where it shows the source of a query in the application log.
Important If your railscomplete-deployment uses the net-ssh-gem please ensure you use version 5.2.0 or newer to ensure...