Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra. This talk will be in German with English slides.

We use CarrierWave in many of our projects to store and serve files of various formats - mostly images. A common...

We use the whenever gem to automatically update the crontab of the servers we deploy to. By default, whenever will...

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The linked GitHub repository is a bit like our "dev" cards deck, but groomed from a single person (Josh Branchaud...

With puma you can have concurrent requests. There are two concepts on how Puma can handle two incoming requests: Workers...

Test-Driven Development (TDD) in its most dogmatic form (red-green-refactor in micro-iterations) can be tedious. It does...

A recent patch level Ruby update caused troubles to some of us as applications started to complain about incompatible gem...

Sometimes it's nice to have some coloring in your logs for better readability. You can output your logs via...

This is a personal post-mortem analysis of a project that was mainly build to provide a REST API to...

If you want to make your Rails application be capable of sending SMTP emails, check out the action mailer configuration...

When restoring a barman PITR backup you may encounter this error: Copying required WAL segments. EXCEPTION: {'ret': 2, 'err': '/bin/sh...

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A while ago I tweeted a thread about how a small JavaScript snippet, one that can fit in a single...

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The french Tilt Studio built a caniuse clone for email clients. Note that while checking styling support helps using (or...

makandra dev

There is a practical short list for valid/invalid example email addresses - Thanks to Florian L.! The definition for valid emails...

Unicorn allows you to specify the maximum number of workers. In development this could be useful if you use a...

The bin/webpack-dev-server command is not as smart as e.g. rails server, where it shows the proper fix within the error...

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I got this error after upgrading Ruby from 2.4.5 to 2.6.4 when I opened the Rails console - rails server still...

When using Chrome for Selenium tests, the chromedriver binary will be used to control Chrome. To debug problems that stem...

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With this gem your transaction blocks raise an error when they have side effects that cannot be rolled back.

makandra dev

CSS transitions are a simple animation framework that is built right into browsers. No need for Javascript here. They're...

Rails is split into a large number of (sub-) frameworks. The most important and central of those are activesupport (extends...

Capistrano automatically logs each (successful) deployment into a file on your application servers. It is located at the root of...

When an AJAX request raises an exception on the server, Rails will show a minimal error page with only basic...

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webpack is a very powerful asset bundler written in node.js to bundle (ES6) JavaScript modules, stylesheets, images, and other assets...