In this episode I do some picoCTF exercises inspired by the picoCTF 2024 competition starting. The last problem was a Unicode byte problem that I figured out with help from GitHub Copilot. I don’t fully understand the solution so let me know if you do. Figuring out the bit math seems like a good future video.
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[Read More]In this episode I do the actual upgrade from Rails 6.1 to 7.0 for the SaturdayMP site. The upgrade actually goes pretty smooth aside from an issue setting up the system tests. Does not include removing Webpacker which I will be in a future video.
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[Read More]In this episode I get the Basic Authentication NGINX configuration working using the envsubst tool to replace environment variables in the config file. Ran out of time to test the fix in actual staging. That will hopefully be done in the 3rd part of this series.
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[Read More]Getting to the end of fixing the Standard Ruby Linter ToDo bug. In this video I refactor and remove duplicate code from a system tests that are similar. It goes well for the most part. The only hiccup is the trying to figure a way to run setup code once for all the tests in the file.
[Read More]The system test is finally working!! I go over, again, why it’s important to make sure your tests fail. Now that the test is working I start refactoring it to remove duplicate code.
Spent longer then I would have thought trying to get a before setup method to work in MiniTest. During my investigation I think I got the JetBrains AI to suggest a fix for a MiniTest PR that was rejected which was interesting to see.
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