In order to have monitoring for Sidekiq (like queue sizes, last run of Sidekiq) your application should have a monitoring...

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Closure_tree lets your ActiveRecord models act as nodes in a tree data structure. This promises a few improvements over...

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Instantiating ActiveRecord objects comes expensive. To speed up things, you can choose a more direct way to talk to your...

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Knowing when to refactor Just feeling like refactoring is not a good reason to do it. Make an educated decision...

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When working with custom transactions and use ActiveRecord::Rollback you may encounter unexpected behaviour if you try to roll back...

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When a directory has more than a few thousand entries, ls will start taking really long to list its content...

You can have a command repeatedly executed and the output displayed. This is useful e.g. for monitoring file system changes...

If you are fine with the default console diff most of the time but only sometimes want to use an...

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This might be relevant for us since we're often managing customer documents in our apps. I played around with...

relishapp.com

VCR lets you configure how it matches requests to recorded cassettes: In order to properly replay previously recorded requests, VCR...

If you want to find the commits that touched a specific text in a file, use git log -S 'text...

Using the -U parameter you can change how many lines are shown above and below a changed section.

We often use VCR to stub external APIs. Unfortunately VCR can have problems matching requests to recorded cassettes, and these...

If you're trying to start a cloud-init based Ubuntu VM with KVM you will suffer long boot times...

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Run dconf-editor (as your user) Go to org / mate / panel / objects / clock / prefs Change the key format to custom...

SVG is an acronym for "scalable vector graphics". SVGs should be used whenever an image can be described with vector...

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icomoon.io

Icomoon.io offers a free app to build custom icon webfonts. It offers downloads as webfont set (.eot, .ttf, .woff, .woff2...

#reverse_order does not work with complex sorting constraints and may even silently create malformed SQL for rails < 5.

1. Sometimes you have search entries in the autocomplete of the address bar, which are higher weighted than your bookmarks...

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AWstats is build to regularly run on webservers. If you want it to build a report once, here is the...

You might get the above error message when cloning certain git repositories (for example the rails repository). It indicates that...

Detect if a gem has been activated A gem is activated if it is either in the current bundle (Gemfile.lock...

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We have released a new library Gemika to help test a gem against multiple versions of Ruby, gem dependencies and...

This error can be caused by the mysql2 gem under mysterious circumstances. You need to remove it with gem uninstall...