The recommended additional setup of the spreewald gem, a useful set of cucumber steps, includes adding a file for defining...

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

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...

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

Both knapsack and parallel_tests have the option to split groups by historic execution time. The required logs for this...

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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...

Rails' url_for is useful for generating routes from a Hash, but can lead to an open redirect vulnerability.

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

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...

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Git log offers useful options for filtering. This card provides a short overview. By message Only commits that include a...

Sometimes you'll find yourself with a set of tasks that require similar code for different models. For example, if...

Intel CPUs receive updates, including security relevant upgrades, through 2 channels: Firmware/UEFI BIOS updates can also update the microcode in...

When you write your next CarrierWave uploader, consider processing your images with libvips instead of ImageMagick. Reasons for libvips

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alias_method makes a copy of a method. This works fine until the same method is overridden using prepend. If...

Splitting up commits makes the process of reviewing often easier, since you can create several merge requests or review every...

It most cases it's not necessary to add a version constraint next to your packages in the package.json. Since...

It most cases it's not necessary to add a version constraint next to your gems in the Gemfile. Since...

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If you have a fully functional CI pipeline but no CD, you might find yourself frequently waiting for CI (with...

Git commands like diff use the less binary for their output representation. I often find myself searching for strings like...

Code splitting is a feature of esbuild that can keep huge libraries out of the main bundle. How code splitting...