If you need to know the IP address that websites and online services see, you need your public IP address. Run this command in your terminal: curl ifconfig.me The command will return your public ...

As the famous saying goes: There are two types of people. Those that have a backup and those that need one Phone Photos I use google photos to backup my photos. It syncs and works pretty well....

The rule You need three copies on two different media with one of them being off-site. Explanation Let’s break it down. Three copies This is self explanatory. Two different media This means we c...

No namespace :namespace do desc "We need to do xyz" task :xyz do require "faraday" require "json" puts "Doing task" end end Yes require "faraday" require "json" namespace :na...

Authentication Authentication is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user. Simply said: Who is this person / are they logged in? In Ruby on Rails we usu...

Don’t take it personal when someone criticizes your work. It’s not personal(in most cases) and it’s not that deep. I have spent so much time on a feature or a problem, and then in 5 minutes it is ...

After updating my Gemfile to fix a Rails boot error, Sidekiq scheduled jobs silently stopped running despite the process and queues looking healthy. The root cause turned out to be a gem incompatibility that crashed Sidekiq’s scheduler thread on boot, reinforcing the importance of reading errors before changing everything else.

A real-life case on why you should never trust the user and always check what they input

Learn why using a datetime instead of a boolean in your Rails models gives you more useful data for almost no extra cost.

Error Rails doesn’t work. We get a require: cannot load such file -- rails/cli (LoadError) > rails <internal:/usr/share/rvm/rubies/ruby-3.2.2/lib/ruby/3.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require...