I recently noticed a new kind of flaky tests on the slow free tier GitHub Action runners: Integration tests were...

Any form fields where users enter numbers should be an . Numeric inputs have several benefits over : On mobile or tablet...

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The linked table shows the support lifecycle for Firefox Extended Support Releases (ESR) which we sometimes need to support for...

tl;dr We recommend configuring Selenium's unhandled prompt behavior to "ignore". When running tests in a real browser, we...

A Rails script lives in lib/scripts and is run with bin/rails runner lib/scripts/.... They are a simple tool to perform...

87.140.79.42 - - [23/Jan/2024:09:00:46 +0100] "GET /monitoring/pings/ HTTP/1.1" 200 814 "-" "Ruby" 87.140.79.42 - - [23/Jan/2024:09:00:46 +0100] "GET...

I, [2024-01-21T06:22:17.484221 #2698200] INFO -- : [4cdad7a4-8617-4bc9-84e9-c40364eea2e4] test

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Multiply by 1x the unit: $number = 13 $length = $number * 1px // => 13px Removing a unit

Ruby methods which load from a Yaml file, like YAML.safe_load or YAML.safe_load_file, support passing freeze: true to...

Your development server is usually running on an insecure HTTP connection which is perfectly fine for development.

Here are some hints on best practices to maintain your tasks in larger projects. Rake Tasks vs. Scripts

You can use the config.x configuration in combination with config_for to configure global settings for your Rails 4.2+ application...

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The linked article suggests an interesting way to speed up tests of Rails + Postgres apps: PostgreSQL allows the creation of...

Getting an entire test suite green can be a tedious task which involves frequent switches between the CLI that is...

This Capistrano task runs a command on all servers. bundle exec cap production app:run cmd='zgrep -P "..." RAILS_ROOT/log/production.log...

In the Gitlab settings the flag Auto-cancel redundant pipelines is enabled by default. This auto-cancels jobs that have...

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A general overview about why and how we migrate can be found under Migrating from Elasticsearch to Opensearch

OpenAI is currently limiting the Audio generating API endpoint to text bodies with a maximum of 4096 characters.

When you find similar groups of expect calls in your tests, you can improve readability by extracting the group into...

Apply Test Driven Development(TDD) to the process of building container images by defining test before writing code and automate...

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Ruby has the class Rational which allows you to store exact fractions. Any calculation on these variables will now use...

If you want to automatically delete old container images from your Elastic Container Registry, the solution is a quite simple...

While upgrading CarrierWave from version 0.11.x to 3.x, we encountered some very nasty fails. Below are the basic...

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I recently stumbled over a problem that my feature tests broke in CI because of a mismatching chromedriver version.