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On the Rails console, assigning an object to a variable can lead to this strange error (without stacktrace): irb > recipient...
In the discussion of the difference between include and extend in Ruby, there is a misconception that extend would add...
Most of our applications use CarrierWave for file uploads. CarrierWave has an integrated processing mechanism for different file versions with...
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We regularly have tasks that need to be performed around a deploy. Be it to notify operations about changed application...
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The linked rbenv plugin rbenv-each is very helpful to keep QoL gems up to date that are not part...
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Besides Plotting graphs in Ruby with Gruff, which comes handy for many uses cases, you sometimes might need configuration for...
Both knapsack and parallel_tests have the option to split groups by historic execution time. The required logs for this...
For my computer science bachelor's thesis I programmed and evaluated a CLI Test Case Prioritization (TCP) tool for makandra...
Rails' url_for is useful for generating routes from a Hash, but can lead to an open redirect vulnerability.
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alias_method makes a copy of a method. This works fine until the same method is overridden using prepend. If...
It most cases it's not necessary to add a version constraint next to your gems in the Gemfile. Since...
With this Ruby script you can print all values in a Redis database to your console (derived from this bash...
tl;dr asdf allows you to manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool and is backwards compatible by...
In Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord::Relation#merge overwrites existing conditions on the same column. This may cause the relation to...
If you want to to create maps within SASS/SCSS-files, it normally works like this: $some-map: (key1: value1, key2: value2...