You can improve your LIKE / ILIKE search queries in PostgreSQL by adding a GIN index with an operate class ("opclass...
Rails' default logger prefixes each log entry with timestamp and tags (like request ID). For multi-line entries, only the...
Recently I needed to benchmark an Active Record query for performance measurements. I wrote a small script that runs each...
Terser is a really good minifier ("compressor") for JavaScript code. I'm often surprised by the thoughtfulness of its compressed...
testing-library are widely used testing utilities libraries for javascript dependent frontend testing. The main utilities provided are query methods...
Rails credentials are a way to store secrets in an encrypted YAML file. Usage is simple: each key in the...
Whenever you have to deal with randomness in a jasmine test there are some spy strategies to help you out...
It's possible to implement simple custom RuboCop cops with very little code. They work exactly the same like existing...
You are given two CSS selectors that you do not control. How can you build a new selector that matches...
Reacting on a class getting added can be done with a mutation observer. Example: const items = document.querySelectorAll('.item') const expectedClass...
The Visual Viewport API enables developers to access the actually visible area of the page. This differs from the normal...
sudo gitlab-rails console Note This takes some minutes to start Send a mail Use the following...
There are different kind of memory measurement metrics in Linux. These are the differences: Code Name Description vsz virtual memory...
Sometimes you want to write a test for a business rule that's based on multiple variables. In your goal...
Sometimes we have to write code that behaves differently based on the version of a specific gem or the Ruby...
I recently stumbled over a quirk in the way Ruby handles local variables that I find somewhat dangerous. Consider:
tl;dr To adjust code templates in RubyMine, navigate to Settings -> Editor -> File and Code Templates. Example You can navigate...
I was recently asked to optimize the response time of a notoriously slow JSON API endpoint that was backed by...
While most Rails Apps are tied to at least one external REST API, machine-to-machine communication via GraphQL is...
Add apt source: apt update -y && apt install -y gpg sudo wget curl sudo install -dm 755 /etc/apt/keyrings
Modern JavaScript includes Intl.NumberFormat to format numbers in different formats and locales. In this card, we describe a wrapper for...
For a long time virtualenv was used to create isolated Python environments. This is not required anymore. Since Python 3.3...
This card shows an uncommon way to retrieve a file using selenium where JavaScript is used to return a binary...
Some rubygems come in platform-specific versions (i.e. "x86_64-linux") in addition to the usual "ruby" platform. This is...