When you find similar groups of expect calls in your tests, you can improve readability by extracting the group into its own matcher. RSpec makes this easy by allowing matchers...

We can extract the repeated matcher chains into a custom matcher called be_shouting: expect(foo).to be_shouting expect(bar).to be_shouting Instead of re-implementing the...

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...

...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...

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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"

Applications often show or hide elements based on viewport dimensions, or may have components that behave differently (like mobile vs desktop navigation menus). Since you want your integration tests to...

...behave consistently, you want to set a specific size for your tests' browser windows. Using WebDriver options / Chrome device metrics For Google Chrome, the preferred way is setting "device metrics...

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Debouncing a method call delays its execution until after a specified time has passed. If it's called again before that time has passed, its execution is delayed again.

...would be run more often than it needs to. One example for that are scroll event handlers in JavaScript: You want to react to a user scrolling, but it's...

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makandra's development process Learn about our process. The squares represent the state of the issue in Linear: In particular you should understand: Why do we have a process?

...is an issue (formerly: story)? What metrics does our process optimize for? How to divide large requirements into issues. When is an issue too small, when is it too large...

...for file uploads. CarrierWave has an integrated processing mechanism for different file versions with support for ImageMagick through CarrierWave::MiniMagick (which requires the mini_magick gem). In case your processing...

...runs into an error, CarrierWave will just swallow it and rethrow an error with a very generic message like Processing failed. Maybe it is not an image? which does not...

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...

...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...

Sometimes we write plain SQL queries in migrations so we don't have to mock ActiveRecord classes. These two migrations do the same: class Migration1 < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.2]

...Migration2 < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.2] def up add_column :users, :trashed, :boolean update("UPDATE users SET trashed = #{quoted_false}") end end The plain SQL migration is less code, but has a...

...can use ETags to allow clients to use cached responses, if your application would send the same contents as before. Besides what "actually" defines your response's contents, your application...

...probably also considers "global" conditions, like which user is signed in: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base etag { current_user&.id } etag { current_user&.updated_at } end Under the hood, Rails generates...

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)

...record/replay cassettes for any RSpec example tagged as :vcr or vcr: true. If a spec is not tagged with :vcr, VCR will complain about any attempted HTTP request. This is...

...this off temporarily, e.g. to communicate with an actual API while writing a new spec, simply add the line c.allow_http_connections_when_no_cassette = true to the VCR.configure-block...

...with a nice way to grep through your project's files: The finder (ctrl + shift + f). Don't be discouraged about the notice 100+ matches in n+ files if your...

...searched keyword is too general or widely used in your project. RubyMine comes with a few ways to narrow down the resulting list, don't hesitate to apply those filters...

With passenger-status --show=requests you can get a huge JSON showing current information about the running passenger processes. This can be useful if you want to find out what...

...a passenger process is doing at the moment (for e.g. if one worker seems to be stuck): * PID: 4273 Sessions: 1 Processed: 47 Uptime: 50m 53s CPU: 43% Memory : 3644M...

Because your examples should not change global state, you should not need to care about the order in which RSpec processes your .rb files. However, in some cases you might...

...rb files in alphabetical order of their file paths by default (or when you specify --order defined). You run tests in random order by using --order random on the command...

...with two matchers that test for equality. The first is toBe: expect(first).toBe(second) toBe passes when first === second. Unfortunately this is useless for non-primitive values because JavaScript...

...is a horrible language. However, Jasmine comes with another matcher toEqual: expect(first).toEqual(second) This matcher behaves as a human would expect for types like the following: Arrays

This card is a short summary on different ways of assigning multiple attributes to an instance of a class. Using positional parameters Using parameters is the default when assigning attributes...

...It works good for a small number of attributes, but becomes more difficult to read when using multiple attributes. Example: class User def initialize(salutation, first_name, last_name, street...

...pretty_print method As an example, consider the following class. class MyClass # ... def inspect "#<#{self.class} attr1: #{attr1.inspect}, attr2: #{attr2.inspect}>" end end Instances of that class will inspect like #<MyClass attr1...

...Alice", attr2: "Bob">, but IRB will apply a single color (green) for everything. That is because MyClass implements only inspect. If it were to implement pretty_print, IRB would use...

GoodJob and ActiveJob rescue exceptions internally, preventing exception_notification from triggering. This can cause silent job failures.To get notified, subscribe to ActiveJob events and configure GoodJob's on_thread_error...

...job failures, as they are handled internally by ActiveJob/GoodJob. ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe(/(enqueue_retry|retry_stopped|discard)\.active_job/) do |event_name, *, payload| exception = payload[:error] job = payload[:job]

Modern CSS offers the field-sizing property to allow elements to automatically adjust size (width and/or height) to fit their contents. The most common use case are textareas which start...

...fairly small (e.g. 2 or 3 rows tall) but grow when users enter longer text. Usage textarea { field-sizing: content; } That's it! At least in modern Chromium-based browsers...

...updates all your gems at once. Given that many gems don't care about stable APIs, this might break your application in a million ways. To stay sane, update your...

...This ensures that your libraries are up-to-date while it's easy to spot major version bumps which may break the app. Projects that have not been updated in...