#pluck is commonly used as a performant way to retain single database values from an ActiveRecord::Relation Book.pluck(:title, :price...
If you ever need to restore exact records from one database to another, Marshal might come in handy. Marshal.dump is...
The sprintf method has a reference by name format option: sprintf("% d : % f", { :foo => 1, :bar => 2 }) # => 1 : 2.000000
Creating Nagios Config with puppet Let's have a look at the classic way of managing Nagios configuration with exported...
For some reason you have to pass the password hash if you want to create a role in postgres. To...
While upgrading CarrierWave from version 0.11.x to 3.x, we encountered some very nasty fails. Below are the basic...
TLDR Using .includes or .eager_load with 1-n associations is dangerous. Always use .preload instead. Consider the following ActiveRecord...
Given you have an array column like this: create_table "users", force: :cascade do |t| t.integer "movie_ids", default: [], array...
Legt man im DNS beispielsweise einen CNAME-Eintrag an, sollte das Ziel am Ende einen Punkt haben, also z.b. d31337.cloudfront.net...
It's not possible to change the bwlimit of Proxmox storages via the Web-UI (at least in Proxmox 7...
The recommended additional setup of the spreewald gem, a useful set of cucumber steps, includes adding a file for defining...
We regularly have tasks that need to be performed around a deploy. Be it to notify operations about changed application...
Chromedriver (or selenium-webdriver?) will not reliably scroll elements into view before clicking them, and actually not click the element...
You don't want sensitive user data in your logs. Background Rails per default filters sensitive data like...
Disclaimer This card is a collection of guides and things to have in mind when upgrading to a specific version...
Both knapsack and parallel_tests have the option to split groups by historic execution time. The required logs for this...
The git doc states on the difference of these two commands: git-restore[1] is about restoring files in the...
There are multiple ways to redirect URLs to a different URL in Rails, and they differ in small but important...
Rails' Strong Parameters enable you to allow only specific values from request params to e.g. avoid mass assignment.
Capybara allows you to filter elements that are focused. page.find(:fillable_field, focused: true) # Filtering only fillable inputs for performance...
In CI test runs I noticed that string sorting order changed after switching from a debian-based PostgreSQL docker image...
Attention This is an edge-case. You probably don't want to mix different database dumps. It also requires that...
Note: You won't need this for single lines of text. In this case it is better to just use...
When you write your next CarrierWave uploader, consider processing your images with libvips instead of ImageMagick. Reasons for libvips