Orca is a Linux screen reader. Since it is part of the GNOME project it should come preinstalled with Ubuntu...
For Selenium tests, your browser starts in your local timezone, or whatever your system's environment specifies. This is usually...
Why Rails has multiple schema formats When you run migrations, Rails will write your current database schema into db/schema.rb. This...
DirectUpload allows you to upload files to your file storage without having to wait for the form to submit. It...
ActiveStorage does not provide any built-in way of implementing authentication for the available DirectUpload endpoint in Rails. When using...
I have moved away from creating fixture elements using CSS selectors. While CSS can be very concise, it can be...
There are several ways to run a single spec. I usually copy the spec file path with the line number...
Sometime we've seen this error when executing e.g. bundle exec rake asset:precompile: double free or corruption (out)
It is possible to add custom http header to request made by the docker CLI client. This can be used...
The key to unlocking the full potential of LLMs in coding lies in crafting precise prompts. The main challenge is...
Bundler allows you to specify the name of the Gemfile you want to bundle with the BUNDLE_GEMFILE environment variable...
TL;DR: Rails ships two methods to convert strings to constants, constantize and safe_constantize. Neither is safe for untrusted...
tl;dr When a cookie includes an Expires attribute or an HTTP response includes caching headers like Expires or Cache...
Some key highlights and points from the linked article TestProf II: Factory therapy for your Ruby tests. The Problem with...
When Ruby objects are inspected in any modern IRB, some objects (like ActiveRecord instances) are rendered with neat colors and...
Slow test suites are a major pain point in projects, often due to RSpec and FactoryBot. Although minitest and fixtures...
While the main goal always is to prevent long-running queries in the first place, automatic timeouts can serve as...
The ActiveSupport::BroadcastLogger allows you to log to multiple sinks. You know this behavior from from the rails server command...
Starting with ChromeDriver 127, if your application displays a beforeunload confirmation dialog, ChromeDriver will immediately close it. In consequence, any...
I recently stumbled upon the Rails feature composed_of. One of our applications dealt with a lot of addresses and...
You can improve your LIKE / ILIKE search queries in PostgreSQL by adding a GIN index with an operate class ("opclass...
Rails' default logger prefixes each log entry with timestamp and tags (like request ID). For multi-line entries, only the...
Recently I needed to benchmark an Active Record query for performance measurements. I wrote a small script that runs each...