I recently stumbled over a quirk in the way Ruby handles local variables that I find somewhat dangerous. Consider:
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I was recently asked to optimize the response time of a notoriously slow JSON API endpoint that was backed by...
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Add apt source: apt update -y && apt install -y gpg sudo wget curl sudo install -dm 755 /etc/apt/keyrings
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Modern JavaScript includes Intl.NumberFormat to format numbers in different formats and locales. In this card, we describe a wrapper for...
For a long time virtualenv was used to create isolated Python environments. This is not required anymore. Since Python 3.3...
This card shows an uncommon way to retrieve a file using selenium where JavaScript is used to return a binary...
Some rubygems come in platform-specific versions (i.e. "x86_64-linux") in addition to the usual "ruby" platform. This is...
If you want someone to be able to access your rails console, but don't want them to be able...
Debouncing a method call delays its execution until after a specified time has passed. If it's called again before...
Running gem update --system will install the latest version of RubyGems. However the latest version might not be compatible with...
You might know a few examples, where you configure some library via a block. One example is the Rails configuration...
This cards describes an example with a Github Client on how to keep your Rails application more maintainable by extracting...
Fresh Chrome installations now show a "Choose your search engine" popup in Europe. This might make your Cucumber tests fail...
This card is a short summary on different ways of assigning multiple attributes to an instance of a class.
Using Capistrano, we usually have some array configurations in the config/deploy.rb file, like set :linked_files, %w[config/database.yml], so in...
ActiveModel classes have a class method .human_attribute_name. This returns a human-readable form of the attribute: Person.human_attribute...
If you want to find out what type of network card is used for a given network interface on a...
I used two lab days to read the The framework field guide - Fundamentals, the first of a three part series...
When you mocked method calls in RSpec, they are mocked until the end of a spec, or until you explicitly...
When you are using PgBouncer with e.g. a Ruby on Rails application which uses different application_names for the PostgreSQL...
In Rails 7.1 it has become possible to annotate partials with the locals they expect: # partial _user_name.erb <%# locals: (user:) %>