When setting up cronjobs, commands somtimes output something every time. If these commands don't support limiting their output to...

In FactoryBot factories, Rails' file_fixture is not available by default. To enable it, include a support module from rspec...

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Some key highlights and points from the linked article TestProf II: Factory therapy for your Ruby tests. The Problem with...

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Text fragments allow linking directly to a specific portion of text in a web document, without requiring the author to...

When Ruby objects are inspected in any modern IRB, some objects (like ActiveRecord instances) are rendered with neat colors and...

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Zeitwerk is the new autoloader of Rails. It is mandatory starting with Rails 7.0. Sometimes, a model needs to know...

Rails 7.1 added the normalizes method which can be used to normalize user input. It lets you define the fields...

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Slow test suites are a major pain point in projects, often due to RSpec and FactoryBot. Although minitest and fixtures...

While the main goal always is to prevent long-running queries in the first place, automatic timeouts can serve as...

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When handling nested hashes the RSpec output is often hard to read. Here the gem super_diff could help.

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This talk shows simple and advanced usages of the ruby/debug debugger. It goes through a step by step debugging workflow...

The ActiveSupport::BroadcastLogger allows you to log to multiple sinks. You know this behavior from from the rails server command...

Starting with ChromeDriver 127, if your application displays a beforeunload confirmation dialog, ChromeDriver will immediately close it. In consequence, any...

I recently stumbled upon the Rails feature composed_of. One of our applications dealt with a lot of addresses and...

You can improve your LIKE / ILIKE search queries in PostgreSQL by adding a GIN index with an operate class ("opclass...

Rails' default logger prefixes each log entry with timestamp and tags (like request ID). For multi-line entries, only the...

Recently I needed to benchmark an Active Record query for performance measurements. I wrote a small script that runs each...

With this command you can run all the spec files which have been edited or added in the current branch...

testing-library are widely used testing utilities libraries for javascript dependent frontend testing. The main utilities provided are query methods...

Whenever you have to deal with randomness in a jasmine test there are some spy strategies to help you out...

Reacting on a class getting added can be done with a mutation observer. Example: const items = document.querySelectorAll('.item') const expectedClass...

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The Visual Viewport API enables developers to access the actually visible area of the page. This differs from the normal...

sudo gitlab-rails console Note This takes some minutes to start Send a mail Use the following...

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Sometimes you want to write a test for a business rule that's based on multiple variables. In your goal...