It most cases it's not necessary to add a version constraint next to your packages in the package.json. Since...

It most cases it's not necessary to add a version constraint next to your gems in the Gemfile. Since...

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If you have a fully functional CI pipeline but no CD, you might find yourself frequently waiting for CI (with...

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Geordi will now suggest related commands and options (hand-picked). If a command has suggestions, a single suggestion is printed...

We often do some HTTP requests to fetch the data we want to check for certain criteria. Testing this in...

Code splitting is a feature of esbuild that can keep huge libraries out of the main bundle. How code splitting...

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You can use rake --where task to find the source location that defines task: bundle exec rake --where assets:precompile...

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How you order elements in the can have an effect on the (perceived) performance of the page. This script helps...

When you are using the default MIME-Type configuration and your application allows uploading files, it can be a security...

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As we are slowly switching from Cucumber scenarios to RSpec feature specs, you might be tempted to write assertions like...

With this Ruby script you can print all values in a Redis database to your console (derived from this bash...

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Web forms can be made much more usable with a few HTML attributes. Short summary: type: Tells browsers about the...

When using tmux, selecting and copying multiple lines of text can be a hassle, especially when using splits (highlighting lines...

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Context and further resources Even though you can get 90% of debugging done with up to 5 basic byebug commands...

I recently noticed that better_errors allows you to to open files from within your favorite editor. However it was...

Debugging your integration tests, that run a headless Chrome inside a docker image, is tricky. In many cases you can...

It is possible to manipulate the forwarded ports of an established interactive SSH session. This is done by opening the...

A convenient way to test SNS Subscription Filter Policies is using an email address as the subscription endpoint. However, for...

Within Capybara you most certainly use the #check- and #uncheck-method to (un)check checkboxes. But there's one problem...

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The rubocop binary has a few interesting flags: rubocop (using the --parallel default ) scans the current repository for linting issues...

Looking at the source code of the validates_numericality_of validator, it becomes clear that it converts the attribute in...

When you allow file uploads in your app, a user might upload content that hurts other users. Our primary concern...

Rack::SteadyETag was a Rack middleware that generates the same default ETag for responses that only differ in XOR-masked...

Every Rails response has a default ETag header. In theory this would enable caching for multiple requests to the same...