Here is a quick’n’dirty cheat sheet for basic Active Storage actions.
Continue readingHow fast is Ruby 2.5, 2.6 and 2.6 –jit in generating Prawn PDFs
Takashi Kokubun (known as k0kubun), a Ruby JIT committer, asked the community for more benchmarks on upcoming Ruby 2.6 JIT. I put together one for generating PDF documents with InvoicePrinter (based on Prawn). Continue reading
Taking Stimulus.js for a ride
Stimulus.js is one of the new front-end framework on the market. It’s goal is to be a modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have, which makes it ideal as an alternative to jQuery or framework-less JavaScript. Let’s see how it feels to replace VanillaJS with Stimulus.js on one concrete example. Continue reading
Building auto login for fast Rails development with Sorcery
Login as various users during development can become pretty annoying especially since it’s very difficult to remember all of the passwords across users or apps. If your app authentication happen to be built with Sorcery here’s is a very easy and straightforward way how to implement auto login. Continue reading
Creating accessible visual select in pure JavaScript without dependencies
How to create a visually more appealing select in pure JavaScript without any framework. Continue reading
Debugging silently failing compilation aka Webpacker can’t find application.js in public/packs/manifest.json
Webpacker can pretend everything went smooth with the compilation… until one loads a page with javascript_pack_tag helper.
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Cleaning up systemd journal logs on Fedora
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