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If you want someone to be able to access your rails console, but don't want them to be able...
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This cards describes an example with a Github Client on how to keep your Rails application more maintainable by extracting...
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When you mocked method calls in RSpec, they are mocked until the end of a spec, or until you explicitly...
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In Rails 7.1 it has become possible to annotate partials with the locals they expect: # partial _user_name.erb <%# locals: (user:) %>
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shoelace is a library of web components. Here is a proof of concept how a integration (slightly different as the...
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