by Andreas Katzian | Feb 12, 2019 | Code
GitLab CI is a great way to automate testing, building and deploying of almost any application. Recently we came across the requirement to setup a repository with several definitions of Docker container images. For sure we wanted to use GitLab CI to also automate the...
by Andreas Katzian | Aug 19, 2017 | Code
Using page specific action cable functionality within ruby on rails comes in very handy sometimes. It allows you to target given functionality to specific pages and controllers. Furthermore, it reduces the number of open web sockets, which again reduces your server...
by Andreas Katzian | Jun 21, 2016 | Code
Often you want to format your number inputs in a pretty and proper way for your users. Using Bootstrap and SimpleForm within your Rails application is a good way to start, but how will you deal with number formatting within your input field for decimal and thousands...
by Andreas Katzian | Jun 29, 2015 | Code, Process
Got a bad rating on your website site speed (e.g. from Google PageSpeed Insights)? Did you observe the advise “Properly formatting and compressing images can save many bytes of data”? Don’t panic, here you’ll find a handy solution to optimize...
by Andreas Katzian | Feb 17, 2015 | Code
Sometimes you simply want to set some default values for an associated model within ActiveRecord without thinking too much of creating possible side effects when overriding methods like build_association or add model callbacks. The following example demonstrates the...
