Other errors when installing Capybara Webkit Gem - M1 Mac Big Sur

Well, it turns out that installing capybara-webkit gem can give you different problems, in my case I had to install

capybara-webkit -v '1.15.1'.

You need to install QT as a dependecy.

The latest versions of QT including 5.6 returns the following message:

QtWebKit is no longer included with Qt 5.6

I followed one of our guides here, however it appears that QT version 5.5 was removed.

cd $( brew --prefix )/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core
git checkout 9ba3d6ef8891e5c15dbdc9333f857b13711d4e97 Formula/qt@5.5.rb
brew install qt@5.5

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
Error: Failed to download resource "qt@5.5_bottle_manifest"
Download failed: https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/qt/5.5/manifests/5.5.1_1

I also tried through binary installer but I got the following error:

Error creating SSL context

I finally succeeded, installing an older version

brew tap cartr/qt4
brew install qt@4
brew install qt-webkit@2.3
gem install capybara-webkit -v '1.15.1'

Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed capybara-webkit-1.15.1
1 gem installed

while on a Capybara / Cucumber test execution How to save and open the page as snapshot in a browser for inspection

While debugging a cucumber test (within an specific step for an specific scenario) with a binding.pry I wanted to see the html as it is with inputs and outputs of data at the moment (and because I usually run tests with Capybara headless option), I realized the existance of:

save_and_open_page

it Saves a snapshot of the page and open it in a browser for inspection

https://www.rubydoc.info/github/jnicklas/capybara/Capybara%2FSession:save_and_open_page

Note: ^ be sure to have the gem 'launchy' within test env so that it works

Fixing the Capybara Webkit Gem installation - QtWebKit is no longer included with Qt 5.6 error on M1 Mac with Big Sur

If you installed any version above 5.6 make sure you uninstall all those versions, for instance:

MacBook-Air:myproject heridev$ brew uninstall qt
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/qt/6.0.3_2... (8,233 files, 158.7MB)
MacBook-Air:myproject heridev$ brew uninstall qt@5
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/qt@5/5.15.2... (10,688 files, 367.9MB)

Then we need to install the 5.5 version (old version):

cd $( brew --prefix )/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core
git checkout 9ba3d6ef8891e5c15dbdc9333f857b13711d4e97 Formula/qt@5.5.rb
// this will install the qt from shopify/shopify
brew install qt@5.5

And make sure you add the qt PATH in my case:

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/qt@5.5/bin:$PATH"' >> /Users/heridev/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Now, you should be able to install the capybara webkit gem without any problems

User Stories

As a [UX Designer] I want to [embrace Agile] so that [I can make my projects user-centered]

TIL that User Stories were originated as part of the Agile and SCRUM development methodologies. A tool so simple yet so powerful, it is a great design method that enhances collaboration.

Read the entire article: https://bit.ly/3tkB3RE

Control email deliveries in Rails with a custom Interceptor

You can easily tell Rails to control email delivering with a custom mailer interceptor, all you need to do is to implement the class method delivering_email:

class DeliverOrNotEmailInterceptor
  def self.delivering_email(email)
    mail.perform_deliveries = !email.to.end_with?('special-domain.com')
  end
end

# config/initializer/email_interceptors.rb
ActionMailer::Base.register_interceptor(DeliverOrNotEmailInterceptor)

What is humans.txt?

I never heard of this until today.

What is humans.txt?

It's an initiative for knowing the people behind a website. It's a TXT file that contains information about the different people who have contributed to building the website.

Examples:

• Google
• MagmaLabs

Further reading

Safe access for nested key values in a Hash - dig method

If you are using Ruby 2.3.0 or above

Now instead of doing this:

result.try(:[], 'avatar').try(:[], 'model').try(:[], 'raw_attributes').try(:[], 'signup_state')
# or
result && result['avatar'] && result['avatar']['model'] && result['avatar']['model']['raw_attributes'] && result['avatar']['model']['raw_attributes']['signup_state']

Now you can easily do the same with dig:

result.dig('avatar', 'model', 'raw_attributes', 'signup_state')

How to add an image to a gist

1.- Create a gist

2.- Clone your gist:

# make sure to replace `<hash>` with your gist's hash
git clone https://gist.github.com/<hash>.git # with https
git clone git@gist.github.com:<hash>.git     # or with ssh

3.- Open it & move your image

cd <hash>
mv ~/Desktop/image.jpg ~/Projects/gist/image.jpg

4.- Add your image to your gist's repository:

git add image.jpg

5.- Commit the image:

git commit -m "Add image"

6.- Update gist:

git push origin master

How to understand the SQL behind an ActiveRecord Query

Quick example, to see and understand better how an ActiveRecord query using scopes or methods in the model works at the SQL level and how to run it, all in the same example

Ruby version

Let say you have a database with users and you have some scopes to filter by non-demo, active, and completed providers with a specific Role (CanCanCan behind the scenes) :

User.providers.real.active.completed

Let's look into the SQL version:

If we run this command

irb(main):007:0> User.providers.real.active.completed.to_sql

We would get this:

=> "SELECT \"users\".* FROM \"users\" INNER JOIN \"users_roles\" ON \"users_roles\".\"user_id\" = \"users\".\"id\" INNER JOIN \"roles\" ON \"roles\".\"id\" = \"users_roles\".\"role_id\" WHERE (roles.name = 'Provider') AND \"users\".\"demo_account\" = 'f' AND (\"users\".\"organization_id\" NOT IN (SELECT \"organizations\".\"id\" FROM \"organizations\" WHERE \"organizations\".\"demo_account\" = 't' ORDER BY \"organizations\".\"name\" ASC)) AND \"users\".\"is_active\" = 't' AND \"users\".\"signup_state\" = 'Completed'"

Then we just need to replace the invalid characters such as \ and translate that into a SQL version like this:

SUMMARY_PROVIDERS_REPORT_SQL = <<-SQL
WITH real_providers AS
  ( SELECT users.* FROM users
    INNER JOIN users_roles ON users_roles.user_id = users.id
    INNER JOIN roles ON roles.id = users_roles.role_id
    WHERE (roles.name = 'Provider') AND users.demo_account = 'f'
      AND (users.organization_id NOT IN (
        SELECT organizations.id FROM organizations WHERE organizations.demo_account = 't' ORDER BY organizations.name ASC)
      )
      AND users.is_active = 't' AND users.signup_state = 'Completed')
select real_providers.id, real_providers.name from real_providers
SQL

In order to run it in the Rails console for example:

report_results = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute(SUMMARY_PROVIDERS_REPORT_SQL)
report_results.entries

That will give you the id and name of all those valid providers

How to check if an ActiveRecord association was already eager loaded

if you need to know whether to use a pre-laoded collection using eager loading or fech the collections, you can always call loaded? method:

if user.contact_phones.loaded?
  user.contact_phones.detect? {|phone| phone.primary }
else
  user.contact_phones.find_by(primary: true)
end

:is() pseudo-class - CSS

When we apply the same style to multiple selectors on CSS we use to do something like this:

.section-header h1,
.section-header span,
.section-header .heading {
  line-height: 1.2;
}
.navigation li,
.navigation p {
  padding: 5px 10px;
}

With :is() we can write our CSS in a shorter way.

.section-header :is(h1, span, .heading) {
  line-height: 1.2;
}
.navigation :is(li, p) {
  padding: 5px 10px;
}

Notes on getting my M1 Rails + Foreman environment working

I expect this to evolve quickly and different things seem to be working for different people. In the meantime, hope to avoid a few rabbit holes for others.

1. rvm worked for ruby 3.0.0 but not 2.6.6 (which is what I needed). cflags workarounds made it so ruby could get installed but gems with native extensions like grpc could not compile correctly. Tried asdf before trying rbenv and it worked, so I stuck with asdf.
2. Had to prepend every brew installation (including brew itself) with arch -x86_64 brew install ....
3. After installing asdf, I installed bundler as usual. No arch -x86_64 or anything. Same for bundle install afterwards.
4. This DriftingRuby episode helped a lot.

I don't think the following were necessary but this is what I did because installing things with brew was getting hairy:

1. Use Postgres.app to keep PostgreSQL running in the background, deleted it from my Procfile. Naturally, I have to start Postgres manually before I start Foreman.
2. Downloaded ElasticSearch binaries and put the path in my Procfile. Essentially /Users/jose/dependencies/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-#.#.#/bin/elasticsearch

Cowork con Técnica Pomodoro

Con esta herramienta https://cuckoo.team/ y algún canal de conversación (zoom, meet, etc) podemos correr pomodoros para grupos de enfoque de trabajo. La idea es proponerse enfocarse de manera grupal. Y sentir el compromiso de lograr el foco con otras personas. En los recesos se convive y comparten experiencias. Es bastante agradable realizarlo.

Using Gem::Dependency class manually to ensure version matching

I needed to add a mechanism to ensure that some actions of a controller were available only for specific versions, and I thought it was super similar of what Gemfile does, so I started to look how to use Gem::Dependency to solve this, and turns out it was super easy:

class Controller
  def feeds_one
    check_for_version_support('>= 1.0', '< 3')

    render json: SomeData.all
  end

  def feeds_two
    check_for_version_support('= 1.0')

    render json: SomeData.all
  end

  def feeds_three
    check_for_version_support('>= 2.1')

    render json: SomeData.all
  end

  private

  def check_for_version_support(*specification)
    checker = Gem::Dependency.new(action_name, specification)

    return if checker.match?(action_name, params[:version])

    raise VersionNotSupported, "Version not upported"
  end
end

P.A.R.A. Method

P.A.R.A. stands for Projects — Areas — Resources — Archives

A Project is “a series of tasks linked to a goal, with a deadline.”

An Area of responsibility is “a sphere of activity with a standard to be maintained over time.”

A Resource is “a topic or theme of ongoing interest.”

Archives include “inactive items from the other three categories.”

This Method has captured my attention and has been an exceptional tool for assign our projects, tasks, and resources.