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Your default postgres user is named like your linux user. That default user has limited access privileges, which can cause...

This should not be necessary in any case and is only for special cases, for e.g. if the assets...

Trying to open a vnc window with geordi geordi vnc ended up with this error: > VNC viewer could not be...

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mysql> SELECT @@global.version; +------------------+ | @@global.version | +------------------+ | 5.6.30 | +------------------+ 1 row in set (0,00 sec) MySQL 5.6 Reference Manual says "BLOB and TEXT...

Use bundler > 1.15 to fix Gem::LOADED_SPECS_MUTEX (NameError). Given the following project: ruby -v ruby 1.8.7

With passenger-status --show=requests you can get a huge JSON showing current information about the running passenger processes.

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Here is how to use Chromedriver without libraries like selenium-webdriver. This can be useful for debugging. The following example...

If you want to make a screenshot of a website that works well in print or on a high-DPI...

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When flagging a spec that will be implemented later as pending, include a failing spec body or RSpec 3 will...

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When a Rails controller action should handle both HTML and JSON responses, do not use request.xhr? to decide that. Use...

I recently had fun with replacing a custom video plattform ("mycustomtv") in one of our applications. I learned a lot...

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Note netstat has mostly been superseeded by its more modern rewrite ss which nowadays comes pre-installed rather than netstat...

Understanding your type of cronjob Some cronjobs must only run on a single server. E.g. when you run nightly batch...

When installing gems, a lot of time is spent building locally installed documentation that you probably never use.

When you have a pending Cucumber step (or feature) that also uses an existing VCR cassette, your pending test may...

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github.com

Katapult 0.3.0 brings Rails 5 and Ruby 2.5 support with a new design, plus a ton of smaller features, fixes...

Enumerable#all? returns true for an empty collection. This totally makes sense but you have to think about it when...

Say you want to move a git repository from one remote (perhaps Github) to another (perhaps Gitlab).

This cucumber step is useful for testing an image (looking at the src of the image). Then(/^I should see...

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About-Payments is here to help you to accept payments online and find the best payment service provider for your...

TL;DR Use user.update!(remove_avatar: true) to delete attachments outside of forms. This will have the same behavior as...

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The issue: You are using stub_const to change a constant value for your test. stub_const "SomeClass::CONST", 'test...

blog.bigbinary.com

This error is raised because your old database does not have a configured environment yet, which Rails 5 enforces.

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Rails applications and ruby gems should have a README that gives the reader a quick overview of the project. Its...