A simple approach for defining custom error classes in Rails.…
Rails 5.2 How to use the new Credentials Api
To help rails development teams manage credentials, Rails 5.2 introduces a new C…
Cookies using Rails Rspec and Headless Chrome Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchCollectionError
While attempting to set a required cookie manually using ChromeDriver to run an integration test, I came across this error: Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchCollectionError: unable to set cookie ```…
Rails Join Association with Count Condition using Postgres
Recently, I have the pleasure of working on a feature that needed to filter search results based on the record count of an associated model. Here's how it was tackled.…
Using Pry in Docker or Foreman with Rails
If you are using Docker or Foreman for local development in Rails, then you've probably noticed that pry doesn't work very well in these environments. I haven't done a lot of research into why this is the case, (maybe some one else can chime in), but to get pry running follow these steps:…
Running Capybara and Headless Chrome on CircleCI 2.0
There are numerous forum posts and people having issues getting their feature specs running in CircleCI using selenium and headless chrome, but it's not as complicated as you might expect.…
Rails 5.1+ UUID as a primary key in ActiveRecord with PostgreSQL
Rails 5 has some great new features. This is a quick guide on how to set models to use UUID instead of an integer based primary key.…
Apply a patch from Github
This short guide explains how to apply a patch from a github pull request to another repo.…