Up until Chrome 120, scrollbars could only be styled using the various -webkit-scrollbar-* pseudo elements, e.g. to make the...
I recently noticed a new kind of flaky tests on the slow free tier GitHub Action runners: Integration tests were...
Sometimes you have a file that is related to a project, while not actually being part of it. You'd...
tl;dr We recommend configuring Selenium's unhandled prompt behavior to "ignore". When running tests in a real browser, we...
A Rails script lives in lib/scripts and is run with bin/rails runner lib/scripts/.... They are a simple tool to perform...
87.140.79.42 - - [23/Jan/2024:09:00:46 +0100] "GET /monitoring/pings/ HTTP/1.1" 200 814 "-" "Ruby" 87.140.79.42 - - [23/Jan/2024:09:00:46 +0100] "GET...
I, [2024-01-21T06:22:17.484221 #2698200] INFO -- : [4cdad7a4-8617-4bc9-84e9-c40364eea2e4] test
There are a few tools to combat the dreaded n+1 queries. The bullet gem notifies you of missing eager...
Multiply by 1x the unit: $number = 13 $length = $number * 1px // => 13px Removing a unit
Ruby methods which load from a Yaml file, like YAML.safe_load or YAML.safe_load_file, support passing freeze: true to...
Your development server is usually running on an insecure HTTP connection which is perfectly fine for development.
It happens from time to time that a job in a GitLab pipeline fails. Sometimes, however, the error message is...
Here are some hints on best practices to maintain your tasks in larger projects. Rake Tasks vs. Scripts
Version 3.7.0 broke some things in complex forms. Sorry for that. Concurrent user input is hard. 3.7.1 This change fixes...
If you have an element with significant border-radius (e.g. 50% for a circle) and you want inline content (i.e...
You can use the config.x configuration in combination with config_for to configure global settings for your Rails 4.2+ application...
A list of clever debugging tricks. TOC: Advanced Conditional Breakpoints monitor() class Calls Call and Debug a Function Pause Execution...
Wondering what these numbers in the mount entries in /etc/fstab are meaning? The first number fs_freq When this field...
You can ignore certain commits when using git blame with the --ignore-revs-file option. This is handy to ignore...
The linked article suggests an interesting way to speed up tests of Rails + Postgres apps: PostgreSQL allows the creation of...
Getting an entire test suite green can be a tedious task which involves frequent switches between the CLI that is...
In the Gitlab settings the flag Auto-cancel redundant pipelines is enabled by default. This auto-cancels jobs that have...
You can use pg_repack to do a VACUUM FULL without holding an exclusive lock during processing. There is still...
A general overview about why and how we migrate can be found under Migrating from Elasticsearch to Opensearch