...exception, Rails will look at the exception's class and choose an appropriate HTTP status code and error page for the response. For instance, an ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound will cause Rails...
...render a red "The page you were looking for doesn't exist" with a status code of "404" (not found). The mapping from exception classes to error types is a...
...there was a blog post entitled “What the Hell is Happening to Rails” that stayed at the number one spot on Hacker News for quite a while. The post and...
...many (but not most) the comments on the post reflect deep-seated concern about the recent direction of Rails. Others have addressed the core question about change in the framework...
...much faster than the configured up.form.config.watchInputDelay. Therefore, it may happen that you already entered something into the next field before Unpoly updates that field with a server response, discarding your...
The steps I wait for active ajax requests to complete (if configured) and capybara-lockstep can catch some of these cases, but not all. Both of these only wait...
Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare...
Hanna is an RDoc template that scales. It's implemented in Haml, making the sources clean and readable. It's built with simplicity, beauty and ease of browsing in mind...
Martin Odersky talks with Frank Sommers and Bill Venners about the compromises and most important goals in Scala's design, its object-oriented innovations, and what's in it for...
Why secure-only cookies used to be necessary Cookies have an optional secure flag. It tells the browser to not send the cookie for a non-https request.
...users from http:// to https://. The reason was that most users will only enter a scheme-less domain like makandra.de into their location bar, which will default to http://makandra.de...
CarrierWave comes with a set of default configuration options which make sense in most cases. However, you should review these defaults and adjust for your project wherever necessary.
...also find suggestions on what to change below. Understanding the default configuration Here is the current default config for version 2: config.permissions = 0644 config.directory_permissions = 0755 config.storage_engines = { :file => "CarrierWave...
...This lesson covers metaprogramming techniques and how to use them to build a domain-specific language (DSL), along with the price you pay in readability. Important Work on this lesson...
...exec) and explain why DSLs depend on this. You can explain what a domain-specific language is, and weigh its benefit — data that reads like prose — against its costs: code...
The following two hints are taken from Github's Ruby style guide: If your regular expression mentions a lot of forward slashes, you can use the alternative delimiters %r(...), %r...
...complex, you can use the /x modifier to ignore whitespace and comments: regexp = %r{ start # some text \s # white space char (group) # first group (?:alt1|alt2) # some alternation end
...can reset the min-width. Say you have a simple grid layout: .container .first-item .second-item .third-item .container display: grid grid-template-columns: 100px 1fr 100px Your expectation...
...correct as the grid layout will try to do that: +---------+----------------------------+---------+ | | - 10 characters long | | +---------+----------------------------+---------+ However, if .second-item's content is too large to fit into the reserved space, it will...
...END__ keyword tells Ruby where a file ends – but you don't have to stop there. Any text you add after it is accessible via the DATA object.
...Doing that enables e.g. man in the middle attacks. If you accept only a single expired and known certificate, you are much less in trouble. Setup All the solutions described...
...below use a verify_callback for the request's OpenSSL::X509::Store where you can specify a lambda to adjust its verification response. Your callback must return either true or...
Short reference on how to quickly debug the vanilla Rails job adapters. Queue Adapters by Environment Environment Adapter Jobs Run In Worker Needed? development :async Rails server process No
Not executed (stored) No production :solid_queue Separate worker Yes (bin/jobs) Development (:async) Jobs run in background threads (Concurrent Ruby ThreadPoolExecutor) within the process that called the job.
When you need to find out in which kind of spec you are during run-time, it's definitely possible. It's a lot easier in RSpec 2+.
...consider this global before block where you'd want to run some code for specific specs only: config.before do # stuff that_fancy_method # more stuff end RSpec 2+
...maintain. There are some good practices for writing a changelog that adds value, please stick to these. Add a notice to the README's contribute section about the changelog
...this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html). ## Unreleased - Added `Foo#foo` method. ## 1.0.0 - 2017-06-20 ### Breaking changes - Renamed `Foo...
...proven library instead of a homegrown solution, and what "homegrown crypto" risks. You can add sign-up, login and logout to a Rails app with our default library (Clearance), adapt...
...its views to the app, and deny access to signed-out users by default rather than per controller. You can attach records to the signed-in user and test the...
With Ubuntu 24.04 it's not longer possible to setup FDE with BTRFS The new installer won't offer you any options for manually created dm-crypt volumes
.../dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv /mnt Move default subvolume to @ cd /mnt btrfs subvolume snapshot . @ rmdir @/ext2_saved btrfs subvolume set-default @ ls | grep -Ev "@|ext2_saved" | xargs rm -rf Create additional subvolumes btrfs subvolume...
There are two ways a logout in SAML can happen: Service Provider (SP) initiated and Identity Provider (IDP) initiated logout. I'll explain how to implement both flows with devise...
...on logout and devise does not do that we get a Unsafe redirect to "https://some-idp.example.com/realms/dev/protocol/saml?SAMLRequest=fZJBb9QwEIX%2FSm45zcZx4j...", pass allow_other_host: true to redirect anyway. upon trying to logout.
...link to find out what ways there are for performacne analysis. This link is shows the more sophisticated way and encourages to dig deeper for optimizing your system. If you...
You most likely never want to do this. But if you do: Model.update_all({:id => new_id}, {:id => old_id...
Here is how to use Chromedriver without libraries like selenium-webdriver. This can be useful for debugging. The following example visits a web page and reads the a headline's...
...things you can do with it, but performing more advanced tasks without a tool like selenium-webdriver can be quite difficult. However, for simple debugging or remote-controlling, curl might...
PostgreSQL can cosplay as a full-text search engine. It doesn't have the features or fidelity of ElasticSearch or Algolia, but it's good enough if you just need...
...to search and rank large volumes of text. This card will teach you how to index, search and rank your Rails models in a PostgreSQL full-text index. We will...
...uses a "real" time zone or :local, and if config.active_record.time_zone_aware_attributes is set to false or not. With time zones configured, always use .current for Time, Date, and...
...which hold time zone information and Time.now only in those that run with the server's time. If you don't, bad things can and will happen. More information can...