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...
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...
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:) %>
While the Software Design Basics card tried to make a point about writing self explanatory code, it's still...
After an upgrade to rails 7 I noticed that async reindexing jobs of Searchkick were failing for Model.reindex(mode: :async...
If you are using the routing-filter gem in your Rails 7.1 app for managing URL segments for locales or...
tl;dr Do not use the option optional on association declarations with a symbol, lambda or proc. Explanation Association declarations...
If an view spec crashes due to undefined helper methods, you can enable this option: # config/application.rb config.action_controller.include_all_helpers = true...
If you want to use rsync to transfer files that don't belong to your user to another system you...
shoelace is a library of web components. Here is a proof of concept how a integration (slightly different as the...
What is makandra cards? We are makandra, a team of 60 web developers, DevOps and UI/UX experts from Augsburg, Germany...
...Our preferred syntax prefixes the issue title with its ID in brackets, e.g. [FOO-123] Avatars for users. Here is how to generate that from an issue in Linear.
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...
When making requests using the http gem you might want to automatically follow redirects to get the desired response. This...
tl;dr When browsers start to adapt proposals from Open UI, it might not be necessary to use any 3rd...
This card describes different flavors for concatting HTML safe strings in a helper method in Rails. You might want to...
Postgres works differently See PostgreSQL: Difference between text and varchar columns for PostgreSQL-specific info MySQL has 4 different column...