July 2025 – Bibliographic Wilderness
1 post published by jrochkind during July 2025| Bibliographic Wilderness
1 post published by jrochkind during July 2025| Bibliographic Wilderness
Here at the Science History Institute, we have a fairly small, but growing, body of video/film in our Digital Collections, at present just over 100 items, around 70 hours total. We wanted to add tr…| Bibliographic Wilderness
I work at a non-profit academic institution, on a site that manages, searches, and displays digitized historical materials: The Science History Institute Digital Collections. Much of our stuff is p…| Bibliographic Wilderness
We test our Rails app with rspec and capybara. For local testing, we use the capybara-screenshot plugin which “Automatically save screen shots when a Capybara scenario fails”, even when…| Bibliographic Wilderness
I am writing some code that does some smoke tests with capybara in a browser of some Javascript code. Frustratingly, it was failing when run in CI on Github Actions, in ways that I could not reproduce locally. (Of course it ended up being a configuration problem on CI, which you’d expect in this case). … Continue reading Getting rspec/capybara browser console output for failed tests→| Bibliographic Wilderness
I am, unusually for me, spending some time writing some non-trivial Javascript, using ES modules. In my usual environment of ruby, I have gotten used to really preferring keyword arguments to functions for clarity. More than one positional argument makes me feel bad. I vaguely remembered there is new-fangled way to exploit modern JS features … Continue reading keyword-like arguments to JS functions using destructuring→| Bibliographic Wilderness
We have long used the free OCLC AssignFAST API to power an auto-suggest/auto-complete in some of our staff metadata entry forms. (Note: While OCLC calls this service “AssignFAST” in doc…| Bibliographic Wilderness
At the Science History Institute Digital Collections, we have a public collection of digitized historical materials (mostly photographic images of pages). We store these digitized assets — or…| Bibliographic Wilderness
attr_json is basically an ActiveRecord extension. It works with multiple versions of Rails, so definitely runs CI on each version it supports. But a while ago on attr_json, i set up CI to run on Ra…| Bibliographic Wilderness
I started rubyland.news a few years ago because it was a thing I wanted to see for the Ruby community. I had been feeling a shrinking of the ruby open source collaborative community, it felt like t…| Bibliographic Wilderness
tldr practical advice for google: If you use resque 3.6.0 or less, and Rails 7.1, and are getting an error: cannot load such file — rack/showexceptions — you probably need to add rack &…| Bibliographic Wilderness
I’m not totally sure what happened, but the tldr is that at the end of last week, our video.js-played HLS videos served from an S3 bucket — via CloudFront — appears to have started requiring …| Bibliographic Wilderness
At the Science History Institute Digital Collections, we have a fairly small collection compared to some peers (~70,000 images) of historical materials. Many of those images are of text: Books, pam…| Bibliographic Wilderness
Some great things about conferences is how different sessions can play off each other, and how lots of people interested in the same thing are in the same place (virtual or real) at the same time, …| Bibliographic Wilderness
Thanks to zverok_kha’s awesome writeup of Ruby changes, I noticed a new method released in ruby 3.2: CGI.escapeURIComponent This is the right thing to use if you have an arbitrary string that…| Bibliographic Wilderness
Rails does not seem to generally advertise ruby version compatibility, but it seems to be the case taht Rails 6.1, I believe, works with Ruby 3.1 — as long as you manually add three dependenc…| Bibliographic Wilderness
I have code that wanted to execute some raw SQL against an ActiveRecord database. It is complicated and weird multi-table SQL (involving a postgres recursive CTE), so none of the specific-model-bas…| Bibliographic Wilderness
We are a small independent academic institution, that hosts a “digital collections” of digitized historical materials, on the web, using a custom in-house Rails app. We’re getting…| Bibliographic Wilderness
attr_json is a gem to provide attributes in ActiveRecord that are serialized to a JSON column, usually postgres jsonb, multiple attributes in a json hash. In a way that can be treated as much as po…| Bibliographic Wilderness
I started rubyland.news in 2016 because it was a thing I wanted to see for the ruby community. I had been feeling a shrinking of the ruby open source collaborative community, it felt like the room …| Bibliographic Wilderness
I recently switched to vite and vite-ruby for managing my JS and CSS assets in Rails. I was switching from a combination of Webpacker and sprockets — I moved all of my Webpacker and most of m…| Bibliographic Wilderness
