This card describes four variants, that add a more intuitive workflow when working with nested attributes in Rails + Unpoly:

We are using assignable_values for managing enum values in Rails. Nevertheless Rails is adding more support for enum attributes...

This card describes different flavors for concatting HTML safe strings in a helper method in Rails. You might want to...

Why do we migrate? Due to a change in licensing, we cannot provide Elasticsearch versions >= 8.0. Version 7.17.x will...

Debugging performance issues in your Rails app can be a tough challenge. To get more detailed insights consider using the...

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There are two ways a logout in SAML can happen: Service Provider (SP) initiated and Identity Provider (IDP) initiated logout...

Starting with Rails 7.1 the production logger is set to standard out. For applications running with opscomplete ensure to keep...

tl;dr Prefer request specs over end-to-end tests (Capybara) to joyfully test file downloads! Why? Testing file downloads

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The author describes his little journey in hunting down a memory leak. Maybe his approach and tooling may one day...

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10.0.0 2024-03-07 Compatible changes console command: You can now globally disable the IRB multiline feature by setting irb...

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Usually our code lives on GitLab, therefore our documentation for CI testing is extensive in this environment. If you are...

A Rails script lives in lib/scripts and is run with bin/rails runner lib/scripts/.... They are a simple tool to perform...

I, [2024-01-21T06:22:17.484221 #2698200] INFO -- : [4cdad7a4-8617-4bc9-84e9-c40364eea2e4] test

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There are a few tools to combat the dreaded n+1 queries. The bullet gem notifies you of missing eager...

Your development server is usually running on an insecure HTTP connection which is perfectly fine for development.

Here are some hints on best practices to maintain your tasks in larger projects. Rake Tasks vs. Scripts

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Version 3.7.0 broke some things in complex forms. Sorry for that. Concurrent user input is hard. 3.7.1 This change fixes...

You can use the config.x configuration in combination with config_for to configure global settings for your Rails 4.2+ application...

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I recently did a quick research on how to better write down multiline statements like this: # Dockerfile RUN export DEBIAN...

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The linked article suggests an interesting way to speed up tests of Rails + Postgres apps: PostgreSQL allows the creation of...

This Capistrano task runs a command on all servers. bundle exec cap production app:run cmd='zgrep -P "..." RAILS_ROOT/log/production.log...

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A general overview about why and how we migrate can be found under Migrating from Elasticsearch to Opensearch

OpenAI is currently limiting the Audio generating API endpoint to text bodies with a maximum of 4096 characters.

#pluck is commonly used as a performant way to retain single database values from an ActiveRecord::Relation Book.pluck(:title, :price...