Thomas Brennetot

Rust, cargo with ZSH (auto complete)

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Configuration in Rails app

Jul 22, 20251 min read

Rspec and Capybara: how to use regex or stop caring about whitespaces

I recently updated from Slim template to ERB to use Herb (Thanks Marco). I had to update a test that was very strict on the format. I realized that Capybara::Node::Simple doesn’t provide a selector for regex. The page object doesn’t have a match? met...

Nov 25, 20251 min read

Rails load_defaults 6.1 explained

Oct 29, 20241 min read

Appsignal V4 Ruby client changes

Sep 13, 20241 min read

Rails 7.0 schema.rb changes

During a recent (and first) upgrade of Rails to 7.0, I found a lot of changes in the schema.rb file. There is the self explanatory one: add versioning to the schema file. And the noisy change of every single datatime field's precision attribute. Lo...

Sep 3, 20241 min read

AppSignal logs from AWS CloudWatch: CloudFormation template!

Don't you think the documentation for forwarding the logs from AWS CloudWatch to AppSignal lengthy? Doc: https://docs.appsignal.com/logging/platforms/cloudwatch.html Same here! But you are in luck, here's the script I used to do all steps at once! Yo...

Aug 16, 20241 min read

Git rename branch on remote

It's impossible ... but, you can copy a branch then delete the old one. On the remote named origin (the default name), copy the master branch in new main branch. git push origin origin/master:refs/heads/main To delete the old master branch (the : me...

Jul 25, 20241 min read

Rails database replica setup

While reading the official documentation, I did not understand some parts of the set up. Let's me explain here. My setup: 1 main database 1 replica What I did not understand: Where to put the connects_to setting Proper/clean configuration in da...

Jun 10, 20242 min read

Ruby 3.3 shipped in prod

On 2024-04-30, I released the Ruby 3.3.1 (from 3.2.3) with success. It been 10 days since, no problem in production or local environments. The main reason to wait for the x.y.1 was due to some issues with 1 or 2 bugs in the arm64 implementation. The...

May 9, 20241 min read

Japanese characters transcoding: stop using Shift-JIS for the source

So, last day I got an encoding error. The data is what I though was in Shift-JIS but it could not be converted to UTF-8 because in Shift-JIS ‡ U+0087 does not exists. It's is multiple used as title like so: https://www.htmlsymbols.xyz/unicode/U+008...

Apr 17, 20241 min read

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