When using Rails credentials, you will edit the encrypted credentials for staging or production environments from time to time. To...
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...
When handling nested hashes the RSpec output is often hard to read. Here the gem super_diff could help.
The ActiveSupport::BroadcastLogger allows you to log to multiple sinks. You know this behavior from from the rails server command...
I recently stumbled upon the Rails feature composed_of. One of our applications dealt with a lot of addresses and...
Rails 7.1 added a new method Rails.env.local?. If you want to stub the Rails env correctly, use ActiveSupport::EnvironmentInquirer like...
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...
Rails credentials are a way to store secrets in an encrypted YAML file. Usage is simple: each key in the...
sudo gitlab-rails console Note This takes some minutes to start Send a mail Use the following...
Sometimes we have to write code that behaves differently based on the version of a specific gem or the Ruby...
I was recently asked to optimize the response time of a notoriously slow JSON API endpoint that was backed by...
While most Rails Apps are tied to at least one external REST API, machine-to-machine communication via GraphQL is...
When Rails releases a new version of their gems, they also release a number of npm packages like @rails/activestorage or...
If you want someone to be able to access your rails console, but don't want them to be able...
You might know a few examples, where you configure some library via a block. One example is the Rails configuration...
This cards describes an example with a Github Client on how to keep your Rails application more maintainable by extracting...
ActiveModel classes have a class method .human_attribute_name. This returns a human-readable form of the attribute: Person.human_attribute...
When you mocked method calls in RSpec, they are mocked until the end of a spec, or until you explicitly...
When you are using PgBouncer with e.g. a Ruby on Rails application which uses different application_names for the PostgreSQL...
In Rails 7.1 it has become possible to annotate partials with the locals they expect: # partial _user_name.erb <%# locals: (user:) %>
After an upgrade to rails 7 I noticed that async reindexing jobs of Searchkick were failing for Model.reindex(mode: :async...