You can ignore certain commits when using git blame with the --ignore-revs-file option. This is handy to ignore...

Getting an entire test suite green can be a tedious task which involves frequent switches between the CLI that is...

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

You can use pg_repack to do a VACUUM FULL without holding an exclusive lock during processing. There is still...

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

In Capistrano 3, your Capfile requires 'capistrano/rails/migrations', which brings two Capistrano tasks: deploy:migrate and deploy:migrating. The former checks...

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Getting CSS (and JS) live reloading to work in a esbuild / Rails project is a bit of a hassle, but...

If you ever need to restore exact records from one database to another, Marshal might come in handy. Marshal.dump is...

Creating Nagios Config with puppet Let's have a look at the classic way of managing Nagios configuration with exported...

Every modern Rails app should have a Content Security Policy enabled. Very compatible default The following "default" is a minimal...

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...

It's not possible to change the bwlimit of Proxmox storages via the Web-UI (at least in Proxmox 7...

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Do you remember finding where a method is defined? I recently learned from a senior colleague that Method objects are...

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The linked rbenv plugin rbenv-each is very helpful to keep QoL gems up to date that are not part...

Besides Plotting graphs in Ruby with Gruff, which comes handy for many uses cases, you sometimes might need configuration for...

Terraform (and terragrunt) gives a lot of output when running plan or apply, outputting a lot of progress information when...

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For my computer science bachelor's thesis I programmed and evaluated a CLI Test Case Prioritization (TCP) tool for makandra...

The git doc states on the difference of these two commands: git-restore[1] is about restoring files in the...

Newest versions of Chromedriver breaks the user agent for device emulation via device name. In previous versions the user agent...

In CI test runs I noticed that string sorting order changed after switching from a debian-based PostgreSQL docker image...

You can tell npm to install a package globally with npm -g install @puppeteer/browsers. However, it seems that its not...

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...