This is a short overview of things that are required to upgrade a project from the Asset Pipeline to Webpacker...

While deploying an Ruby update to an old application these days, we encountered the following misleading error: *** [err :: some-host.makandra.de] You...

Rails' ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone objects have both a timezone code and offset, e.g. Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:00:00 CET...

When we want to use our own (or bought) fonts in an application with Webpack(er), we have two options...

When you have a powerful machine with many CPU cores, you might run into an error like

Webpacker is Rails' way of integrating Webpack, and version 4 has been released just a few days ago, allowing us...

RSpec >= 3.3 added aggregate_failures, which allows multiple failures in an example and list them all, rather than aborting on...

If you have a PostgreSQL dump in the custom format you can can view the text format dump (plain SQL...

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When building an application that sends e-mails to users, you want to avoid those e-mails from being classified...

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Suggested Workflow Set the ruby version in .ruby-version to 2.3.5, then perform these steps one by one, fixing errors...

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When your code does not behave as expected, you can use a debugger statement ("breakpoint") at any point in your...

Cucumber has an output format that prints step definitions only. You can use this to find unused ones: Temporarily add...

When upgrading Rails versions -- especially major versions -- you will run into a lot of unique issues, depending on the exact...

The exception_notification gem supports to provide custom data to e.g. the fail mail within foreground or background jobs. ExceptionNotifier.notify...

Accessing pseudo elements via JavaScript or jQuery is often painful/impossible. However, accessing their styles is fairly simple. Using getComputedStyle

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There are two ways to lock a user in devise. Using the lockable module Customizing the user account status validation...

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When you are using lambdas in RSpec to assert certain changes of a call, you know this syntax: expect { playlist.destroy...

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Mobile Chrome and Safari support the "web share API" which allow you to use the native share functionality of an...

Rubymine 2024.3 bundles Grazie Lite by default. You need to enabled "German" under Settings/Preferences | Editor | Natural Languages.

Geordi uses parallel_tests if available for running the test suite. To debug an application it is very unhandy to...

It is possible to access Rails config (for example secrets) from within your webpack bundles, thanks to rails-erb-loader...

Font Awesome 5 is a comprehensive solution for vector icons on your website. Originally, Font Awesome came as an icon...

There seems to be no built-in matcher in RSpec to check if a string contains terms in the desired...