Here is a short summary of Cucumber hooks in Ruby taken from https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby. Note that the BeforeStep is...
Sometimes you want to find the inverse of an ActiveRecord scope. Depending on what you want to achieve, this is...
Ubuntu 18.04 uses systemd to manage services. There are basically two commands for listing all services and manipulating the state...
We currently test most of our gems on Travis CI, but want to migrate those tests to Github Actions. This...
If you're experiencing problems with your Google Chrome installation after an update, it might help downgrading Chrome to check...
On some of our older projects, we use the mysql2 gem. Unfortunately, versions 0.2.x (required for Rails 2.3) and...
Installing old Rubies (<= 2.3) with a standard rbenv + ruby-build is no longer possible on Ubuntu 20.04. This is because...
When loading a database dump created with pg_dump into your database, you might run into an error like
It sometimes happen that a database dump, that would want to insert into your development database, does not match the...
There is a common view that extracting text from a PDF document should not be too difficult. After all, the...
The sidekiq-rate-limiter gem allows rate-limiting Sidekiq jobs and works like a charm. However, it needs to be...
If you're using the webdrivers gem and VCR together, depending on your configuration, VCR will yell at you regulary...
If a model inherits from others or uses many concerns / traits, it might be hard to see in the code...
When logging in Rails, you can use the log_tags configuration option to add extra information to each line, like...
After performing a live migration of a VM you may encounter issues with the clock of the migrated VM. The...
If you want to get the path of a file relative to another, you can use the expand_path method...
Google Chrome disables Notifications for insecure origins (i.e. those using HTTP). Only http://localhost is considered secure.
To find a version containing the regular expression foo in the history of any branch: git grep foo $(git rev...
This is an extract from the linked article. It shows an approach on how to implement encrypted passwords with the...
CSS variables are very different from preprocessor variables. While preprocessors use variables to compile a static piece of CSS, CSS...
A flat folder structure can be cool if you have only a few folders but can be painful for huge...
Rails 5.2+ supports "verbose query logs" where it shows the source of a query in the application log.
This error occurs when passing an object instead of a string to Jasmine's describe(): # Bad describe(HoverClass, function() {...
Important If your railscomplete-deployment uses the net-ssh-gem please ensure you use version 5.2.0 or newer to ensure...