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When you find similar groups of expect calls in your tests, you can improve readability by extracting the group into...
If you ever need to restore exact records from one database to another, Marshal might come in handy. Marshal.dump is...
The sprintf method has a reference by name format option: sprintf("% d : % f", { :foo => 1, :bar => 2 }) # => 1 : 2.000000
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Ruby has the class Rational which allows you to store exact fractions. Any calculation on these variables will now use...
Creating Nagios Config with puppet Let's have a look at the classic way of managing Nagios configuration with exported...
Every modern Rails app should have a Content Security Policy enabled. Very compatible default The following "default" is a minimal...
If you want to automatically delete old container images from your Elastic Container Registry, the solution is a quite simple...
There is a gem puppet-ghostbuster which can help you find dead code in puppet projects. To use it, (as...
While upgrading CarrierWave from version 0.11.x to 3.x, we encountered some very nasty fails. Below are the basic...
All direct child directories of app are automatically added to the eager- and autoload paths. They do NOT create a...
On the Rails console, assigning an object to a variable can lead to this strange error (without stacktrace): irb > recipient...
TLDR Using .includes or .eager_load with 1-n associations is dangerous. Always use .preload instead. Consider the following ActiveRecord...
In the discussion of the difference between include and extend in Ruby, there is a misconception that extend would add...
Most of our applications use CarrierWave for file uploads. CarrierWave has an integrated processing mechanism for different file versions with...
I recently stumbled over a problem that my feature tests broke in CI because of a mismatching chromedriver version.
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It's not possible to change the bwlimit of Proxmox storages via the Web-UI (at least in Proxmox 7...
View specs are a powerful tool to test several rendering paths by their cases instead of using a more costing...
The recommended additional setup of the spreewald gem, a useful set of cucumber steps, includes adding a file for defining...
We regularly have tasks that need to be performed around a deploy. Be it to notify operations about changed application...
Note Don't use reruns as a mean to work around flaky tests. You should always try to fix those...
Do you remember finding where a method is defined? I recently learned from a senior colleague that Method objects are...