Have you ever encountered random failing tests using the Ruby on Rails system tests? If so, you may be surprised to learn that animations could be the culprit. We’ll explain why animations can cause random failing tests and how disabling them can improve test performance. Understanding the problem Animations introduce an unpredictable timing…

🚀 Increase Browser Test Speed with Chrome Options Optimization 🚀 Are you looking to supercharge your browser tests and optimize their speed? By fine-tuning your Chrome browser options, you can significantly enhance the performance of your automated tests. Below are some Chrome options that helped me get x1.25 improvement: CHROME_ARGS…

In today’s fast-paced business environment, remote distributed teams are becoming increasingly common, especially among pre-seed startups. However, managing projects and coordinating business analysis workshops with limited resources can be challenging. The lack of a full-time project manager and the absence of real-time feedback from product sponsors often hinder development. To…

Have you found problems building ruby on a local machine? How to configure your local environment once and for all? Building ruby is dependent on several key elements: build tools, compilers, linkers, also shared libraries like openssl, libyaml, readline, etc. …

In structuring a team for MVP, we should consider the following: there is a massive number of uncertainties. We have to work with assumptions and bets. The goal for the business is to find a good enough solution for a reasonable budget: ROI. …

Today our /bin folder has become overwhelmed with different development tools and scripts. We put everything there: local automations, CI/CD helpers, PAAS release scripts, Dockerfile helpers, etc. Finding appropriate tools for your problem in that mess becomes too hard. I had several revisions on decomposing the /bin scripts and the…

Let’s integrate Homebrew into our Ruby on Rails Project local setup. There is a convention for Ruby on Rails projects bin/setup to set up and install/update required dependencies. But by default, it does not include system dependencies. We are going to use the Homebrew Bundle tool for this. First, we…

How do you apply new lint rules to the legacy project with active development? Have you added standard gem recently, and now you are required to change many files but cannot apply them at once. I got the same problem, and we could not add a massive amount of the…

Have you ever thought that setting default values for attributes in Ruby on Rails could be a problem? — Since attributes are uninitialized when a new model is created without any parameters, default values will be set according to the type of attribute. This is a very good idea if we don’t want to fill up the database with unnecessary information. Ruby on Rails provides a lot of options…