systemd journal logs take a lot of space after a while. Let’s wipe them out! Continue reading
I am writing an introductory book to web application deployment
I decided to write a book (at the very least attempt to). And yes, there will be some Fedora inside! Continue reading
Making a Ruby executable with ruby-packer
You can make a single executable from your gem or even a Rails application. I just tried ruby-packer and it works as promised. Continue reading
Using private GitHub repositories with yarn and npm in package.json
Whether you are working on a JavaScript project or a Rails one with Webpack you might come to the point where you need to reference a private GitHub repository as your dependency in package.json. Here are two options on how to do that. Continue reading
Firefox needs some more RAM to run your Rails system tests
A quick fix for an annoying (and not very descriptive) error Browsing context has been discarded when setting up Ruby on Rails system tests with Firefox headless.
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InvoicePrinter 1.2
A new version of my Ruby gem for generating PDF invoices InvoicePrinter is out! This time bringing in a bundled server that can be handy for applications not running on Ruby. Continue reading
Making PDF invoices from JavaScript and Node.js
This is an example of how to use the new InvoicePrinter Server that I announced recently to start invoicing from your Node.js projects.
Fixing ‘failed to find type parsed [keyword] for [name]’ error for Elasticsearch and Searchkick
Just a quick remainder about what slowed me down today. Continue reading
PDF invoicing for any project with InvoicePrinter Server
Next release of InvoicePrinter will include a server with JSON API. That means you will be able to create simple and beautiful PDF invoices in seconds from any tech stack.
Implementing a basic debug mode for your Ruby CLI
We should all strive to handle all possible errors in our programs and display nice error messages to the users, but one can hardly be sure that nothing will ever go wrong. That’s why I believe we should try to embed a debug mode that users can take advantage of when submitting the issue or solving the problem. Luckily this is very simple thing to do. Continue reading