...Mocking the time zone You can't really change the local time zone of the Selenium-controlled browser. What you can do is change the time zone of the process...
...setting this from an individual test, since you don't know whether or not the Selenium-controlled browser has already launched. Note that we have only tested this with a...
...if you do not know. How are cookies transferred between your browser and the server? Open the development tools in your browser for this page. Can you find the cookies...
...your browser stores for makandracards? In the network tab, can you see how the cookies are transferred to or from the server? Can you log yourself out by manipulating a...
I recently noticed a new kind of flaky tests on the slow free tier GitHub Action runners: Integration tests were running on smaller screen sizes than specified in the device...
...metrics. The root cause was the use of Selenium's page.driver.resize_window_to methods, which by design does not block until the resizing process has settled: We discussed this issue...
When you're using feature branches, they will stack up if you don't delete them after the merge to master. Here's how to tidy them up. Delete feature...
...Find already-merged branches by running # On branch master git branch --merged You may safely delete each of the listed branches, because they point to commits that are contained in...
...files. Those can be used to apply to a different repository [1] or by someone else (e.g. sent when sent to them via e-mail). Creating a patch in git...
...changes and commit them. Run git format-patch COMMIT_REFERENCE to convert all commits since the referenced commit (not including it) into patch files. For example, let's say you...
...Learn to create test data effectively using factories. Decouple tests by having each test start with an empty database and create only the records needed for the test. Learn
...with every test. In our experience the use of fixtures can make a test suite hard to work with. In any non-trivial test suite there will be thousands of...
...library => Google Drive) CLI tricks every developer should know Install the tldr tool using sudo apt install tldr. You can then get usage examples for every console command, e.g. tldr...
...ssh to get examples for the ssh command. (If there are no entries, run tldr -u and try again) Exercises Basic commands Experiment and do something useful with the following...
Learn to treat files as an ActiveRecord attribute type, like :string or :integer Research Look at the README for the carrierwave gem Read about Common mistakes when storing file...
...the form where we can also fill in title, year, etc. On the movie show view, render a poster version that is 400 pixel wide, with a height that respects...
When you create a temporary file (e.g. to store a generated Excel sheet) and try to send it to the browser from a controller, it won't work by default...
...this controller action: class FoosController < ApplicationController def download file = Tempfile.new('foo') file.puts 'foo' file.close send_file file.path end end Accessing this controller action will usually raise a 404 not found...
...in the context of our application. While you could roll out a custom authentication solution, this would likely expose you to the various risks of "homegrown crypto". In practice we...
...like clearance or devise for this task. Learn Read the article Rails Authentication from Scratch You don't need to do write any code, but you should be able to...
Are My Indexes Affected? If your database has been created on an operating system with glibc version < 2.28 and later upgraded to an operating system with glibc >= 2.28, you...
...affected. To find out which indexes in our database are affected, run the following slightly modified query from the PostgreSQL documentation: CREATE extension amcheck; SELECT bt_index_check(index => c.oid...
...upgrade tasks according to its actual value. Consider to create and periodically maintain a summary, which helps you and your team in the decision which refactoring task should be taken...
Estimated Efforts Visible customer value Customer value explained Developer value Developer value explained Short title for the task Score from 0-5 Score from 0-5 Explanation
...tough challenge. To get more detailed insights consider using the rack-mini-profiler gem. Setup with Unpoly Add the following gems: group :development do gem 'memory_profiler' gem 'rack-mini...
If you have slow views (Haml/Partials can be slow), consider caching them. Remove code & sql-queries that are not needed to render the page. Calling to_a blindly on...
Follow the installation guidelines at https://mise.jdx.dev/getting-started.html. Remove rbenv configuration Search for rbenv config in .bashrc and .profile and remove it: eval "$(rbenv init - bash)"
...rbenv config in .profile and remove it: source /home/$user/.rbenvrc Remove nvm configuration Search for nvm config in .bashrc and remove it: export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm" [ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM...
...posts; if you use pagination the queries will be more complicated, but the point still stands. Looks harmless enough? It is not. The problem ActiveRecord will rewrite this into a...
...query using LEFT JOINs which looks something like this: SELECT "blog_posts".*, "comments".*, "attachments".* FROM "blog_posts" LEFT OUTER JOIN "comments" ON "comments"."blog_post_id" = "blog_posts"."id"
Intel CPUs receive updates, including security relevant upgrades, through 2 channels: Firmware/UEFI BIOS updates can also update the microcode in CPUs. This is the preferred and persistent way
How to install an microcode update? If one is available and deemed sufficiently stable from Debian's or Ubuntu's perspective, the intel-microcode package is updated and...
If you want to switch to another ruby versions, you have several options, depending on what you want: Do you want to switch temporarily, per project, or globally?
Unlike RVM, rbenv does not offer a command like rvm use. By default, it respects your project's .ruby-version file. If you need to change manually...
...a global variable in Rails? Ugh, that's the worst. If you need global state, you've probably reached for Thread.current. When you're using Thread.current, you must make sure...
...yourself or your cached data will stay in Thread.current. For Sidekiq, you can use request_store-sidekiq. Cronjobs are unaffected, as a new process is created each time...
...good thing. It's possible to configure this requirement at the web- or proxy server level, where nginx or apache will just redirect every request on http to https. Some...
...if the URL they've been called with contains the http or the https scheme and issue their own redirect response (usually 301 or 302) to https. This card is...
While it might seem trivial to implement an invoice that sums up items and shows net, gross and vat totals, it actually involves a lot of rules and caveats. It...
...examples in Ruby and MySQL, the concepts apply to all programming languages and data stores. When to round There are exactly two spots where your invoice logic should round money...
Systemd's networkd will drop IP-Addresses configured by other processes like Keepalived's VRRP, when it is restarted. This may happen on updates. To prevent this following settings are...
...critical: yes to /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml eth1: addresses: - 192.0.2.67/24 gateway4: 192.0.2.1 nameservers: addresses: - 198.51.100.42 - 198.51.100.53 search: - example.lcal critical: yes run netplan generate This will add the CriticalConnection to your networkd configuration...
Du weißt was copy-on-write ist und warum das in Zusammenhang mit Snapshots praktisch ist Du weißt was Fragmentierung ist und wann und wo es bedeutsam ist
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...block evaluates to true. first_post_with_image = posts.find do |post| post.image end However, sometimes it's not the item you're interested in, but some value depening on it...
...image).find(&:present?).url If the mapping is a costly operation or has undesirable side effects, you need to do it in a single iteration instead. Single iteration solution with...
Here are a few common patterns that will probably lead to flaky specs. If you notice them in your specs, please make sure that you have not introduced a flaky...
Using RSpec matchers One rule of thumb I try to follow in capybara tests is using capybara matchers and not plain rspec matchers. One example: visit(some_page)