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emacs has a "M-x base64-encode-region"

In ruby you can use any single non alpha numeric character as delimiter for % notation. The following are all same %(foo bar); %w[foo bar]; %w%foo bar%; %w$foo bar$; And many more. https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ruby_Programming/Syntax/Literals#The_%_Notation

git bundle https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bundle

Rails 5 prevents accidental halting of the callbacks. In order to explicitly halt, we can make use of throw(:abort) in the callback chain.

Sidekiq by default does 25 retries (about 21 days) based on exponential back off formula ie. to retry multiple times with exponential delays. If need be, we can explicitly configure max_retries in sidekiq.yml.

while writing test for a parent component which renders child component based on some state/prop and if your child component is connected, always import unconnected child component and do assertion on that.
/code
import { ChildComponent } from 'path/to/component';

expect(component.find(ChildComponent).length).toBe(1);

//instead of
expect(component.find('ChildComponent').length).toBe(1);

In Rails we can do two modes of locking that is 'Optimistic Locking' and 'Pessimistic locking'. 'Optimistic Locking' assumes that a database transaction conflict is very rare to happen and such locked records can still be read (Shared lock). It uses a version number of the record to track the changes. This can be used by adding a lock_version column to the table and then is handled automatically by Rails.
Whereas 'Pessimistic locking' assumes that database transaction conflict is very likely to happen. It locks the record until the transaction is done (Exclusive lock). This can be done with ActiveRecord::Base#lock! or ActiveRecord::Locking::Pessimistic#with_lock.

a decent spreadsheet writer gem for ruby, https://github.com/felixbuenemann/xlsxtream, ran some rough benchmarks, and this one is the fastest and lowest memory consuming gem. although not feature complete.

This is a good read about common Rails errors which rollbar has captured https://rollbar.com/blog/top-10-ruby-on-rails-errors/