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A JavaScript error in an E2E test with Selenium will not cause your test to fail. This may cause you...
Rails 5.2 soft-deprecated the storage of secrets in secrets.yml in favor of a new thing, credentials.yml.enc. Rails 7.1 deprecated...
...title from Linear app and a link to the original issue. For example: [VW-1337] CRUD Users Issue: https://linear.app/makandra/issue/VW-1337/crud-users Setup When you use geordi branch or geordi commit...
Geordi's cucumber command has a --rerun option that reruns failing tests the given number of times. Usage: geordi cucumber...
...HTML's accepts a single file. You can allow multiple files via . But sometimes, selecting multiple files is not enough...
When writing a story description in Pivotal Tracker, there is now a tiny button at the bottom of the description...
If you use transactional_fixtures or the database_cleaner gem with strategy :transaction, after_commit callbacks will not be fired...
If validations failed for a record, and you want to find out if a specific validation failed, you can leverage...
Restricting access to cookies is essential for security in many web apps. For example, the session ID, the secret token...
Let's say you have a gem which has the following module: module SuperClient def self.foo 'Foo' end
We want to keep a changelog for all gems we maintain. There are some good practices for writing a changelog...
Most forms have a single submit button that will save the record when pressed. Sometimes a form needs additional submit...
If you need to run a program on a remote machine (e.g. to your office PC) with a graphical UI...
Migrating data from a legacy into a new system can be a surprisingly large undertaking. We have done this a...
In general, the tracker should always be the definitive source of truth of what needs to be done as part...
In a project team for a bigger project people have several roles: Developer: at makandra Project lead: at makandra
At makandra, we've built a few gems over the years. Some of these are quite popular: spreewald (> 1M downloads...
When you receive a ZIP file from a Windows user, umlauts and other non-latin1 characters in filenames may look...
Having a unique selector for an element is useful to later select it from JavaScript or to update a fragment...
Haml lets you prefix a group of attributes by wrapping them in a hash. This is only possible with the...
As a web developer, you know Google Analytics (GA). Probably you've dropped the GA snippet into more than one...
For webpages to load fast it's recommended to optimize images. Ideally an image's file size should be as...
If you want to fill in textareas with multiple lines of text (containing line breaks / new lines) you can use...