This article was contributed by Dustin B. Cisneros from RackNerd, a seasoned contributor of the hosting industry for 12+ years. If you are looking for VPS hosting services – take a look at their latest offers here. Webmin is an essential tool if you want to streamline your system administration process. With Webmin, you do …
Note: This case is valid also for the “old” #method method usage. The reason why I mention that in the “dot-colon” context, is the fact that due to the syntax sugar addition, this style of coding will surely be used more intensely. Note: This feature has been reverted. See details here: bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16275. Note: Benchmarks and …
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If you get following error when trying to parse time: Time.zone.parse(‘2019-01-01 11:11:11′) Traceback (most recent call last): 16: from /bundler/friendly_errors.rb:124:in `with_friendly_errors’ 15: from /bundle:30:in `block in ‘ 14: from /bundler/cli.rb:18:in `start’ 13: from /bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/base.rb:466:in `start’ 12: from /bundler/cli.rb:27:in `dispatch’ 11: from /bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor.rb:387:in `dispatch’ 10: from /bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/invocation.rb:126:in `invoke_command’ 9: from /bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/command.rb:27:in `run’ 8: from /bundler/cli.rb:465:in `exec’ …
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Note: These release notes cover only the major changes. To learn about various bug fixes and changes, please refer to the change logs or check out the list of commits in the main Karafka repository on GitHub. TL;DR If you would prefer to see the changes in the code, here’s the upgrade PR from the …
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I’m a quite happy Synology user. For the past years I’ve been using it mostly to backup my things, so I didn’t pay much of an attention to the fact, that the Photo Station software would get slower and slower up to the point when I would end up with “Failed to load data” message …
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Many of you may not be aware, but Ruby 3 is not only a distant, abstract concept. Ruby 3 is an end goal of a process that is already pretty advanced. This week I had a chance to participate in a non-public Ruby 3 gathering/hack challenge that was organized by Miles Woodroffe and Cookpad in …
Using Ruby gems is safe, right? We’re a nice community of friendly beings that act towards the same goal: making Ruby better. But is that true? Can we just blindly use libraries, without making sure, that they are what they are supposed to be? Learn how you can take over a gem, what you can …
How to take over a Ruby gem and what to do with it / RubyKaigi 2019 presentation Read More »
A short snippet on how to make Ruby on Rails authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic respond with a JSON valid message upon failure. class ApplicationController < ActionController::API include( ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic::ControllerMethods ) before_action :http_authenticate! def http_authenticate! authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |key, secret| return if Resource.find_by( key: key, secret: secret ) end render( json: 'Invalid credentials'.to_json, status: 401 ) end end Cover photo by …
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TL;DR This bug has been fixed in 2.6.1. Please upgrade and all should be good. If you do any HTTP communication (HTTP requests, Elasticsearch, etc) do not upgrade to 2.6.0p0 or apply the patch below as soon as possible. Ruby is eating up characters when pushed over HTTP Ruby 2.6.0 has been released not long …
Xiaomi Air Purifier is one of the best on the market in the price/value category. Like many other Xiaomi devices, it can be controlled using a great home automation system called Domoticz. The only problem that I had is that for the 2S version, there is no way to obtain the device token needed for …
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