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...

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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...

This Capistrano task runs a command on all servers. bundle exec cap production app:run cmd='zgrep -P "..." RAILS_ROOT/log/production.log...

In the Gitlab settings the flag Auto-cancel redundant pipelines is enabled by default. This auto-cancels jobs that have...

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Short hint: If you want to push to a git repository that has CI configured, you can skip the CI...

You can use pg_repack to do a VACUUM FULL without holding an exclusive lock during processing. There is still...

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A general overview about why and how we migrate can be found under Migrating from Elasticsearch to Opensearch

OpenAI is currently limiting the Audio generating API endpoint to text bodies with a maximum of 4096 characters.

In Capistrano 3, your Capfile requires 'capistrano/rails/migrations', which brings two Capistrano tasks: deploy:migrate and deploy:migrating. The former checks...

#pluck is commonly used as a performant way to retain single database values from an ActiveRecord::Relation Book.pluck(:title, :price...

Added: State machine can now use the :prefix-option to avoid name collision if you define multiple state machines on...

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Getting CSS (and JS) live reloading to work in a esbuild / Rails project is a bit of a hassle, but...

Make sure that you use the correct property when editing an HTML attribute. Using innerHTML with unsafe arguments makes your...

tl;dr You can use ordered to ensure that messages are received in a specific order. Example expect(ClassA).to...

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In my career, I have consumed hundreds of REST APIs and produced dozens. Since I often see the same mistakes...

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...

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The sprintf method has a reference by name format option: sprintf("% d : % f", { :foo => 1, :bar => 2 }) # => 1 : 2.000000

Apply Test Driven Development(TDD) to the process of building container images by defining test before writing code and automate...

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Ruby has the class Rational which allows you to store exact fractions. Any calculation on these variables will now use...

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Even when you app has no CSS at all, you still inherit a default user agent stylesheet from your browser...

Creating Nagios Config with puppet Let's have a look at the classic way of managing Nagios configuration with exported...