Whenever is a Ruby gem that provides a nicer syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs. Leading zeros are important...

For outputting a given String in HTML, you mostly want to replace line breaks with or tags.

Don't sum up columns with + in a sql-query if NULL-Values can be present. MySQL and PostgreSQL cannot...

When you have string contents (e.g. a generated binary stream, or data from a remote source) that you want to...

Form fields can be rendered as noneditable by setting the disabled or the readonly attribute. Be aware of the differences...

With passenger-status --show=requests you can get a huge JSON showing current information about the running passenger processes.

Note netstat has mostly been superseeded by its more modern rewrite ss which nowadays comes pre-installed rather than netstat...

Understanding your type of cronjob Some cronjobs must only run on a single server. E.g. when you run nightly batch...

makandra Operations

If one etcd node is no longer a member of the remaining etcd cluster or fails to connect you need...

TL;DR Use user.update!(remove_avatar: true) to delete attachments outside of forms. This will have the same behavior as...

This is a small example on how you can check if your Postgres index can be used by a specific...

By default, browsers will not wrap text at syllable boundaries. Text is wrapped at word boundaries only. This card explains...

Checking if a JavaScript value is of a given type can be very confusing: There are two operators typeof and...

RSpec allows you to mark a single Example/ExampleGroup so that only this will be run. This is very useful when...

If you already selected an element and want to get its parent, you can call find(:xpath, '..') on it.

makandra dev

An end-to-end test (E2E test) is a script that remote-controls a web browser with tools like Selenium...

When your public-facing application has a longer downtime for server maintenance or long migrations, it's nice to setup...

Browsers support different types of redirects. Be very careful with these status codes: 301 Moved Permanently 308 Permanent Redirect

RSpec allows defining methods inside describe/context blocks which will only exist inside them. However, classes (or any constants, for that...

When localizing model attributes via I18n you may run into errors like this: I18n::InvalidPluralizationData: translation data {...

...} can not be...

before(:all) runs the block once before all of the examples. before(:each) runs the block once before each...

You can use local copies of gems in your Gemfile like this: gem 'spreewald', path: '~/gems/spreewald' As soon as you...

I often see the use of || to set a default value for a variable that might be nil, null or...

Nowadays it is fairly easy to intercept and modify mails globally before they are sent. All you have to do...