Why does Ruby on Rails use http://0.0.0.0:3000 instead of http://localhost:3000?

Localhost means quite literally “your local host”, usually identified by 127.0.0.1 and all traffic to that address is routed via a loopback interface. If your Web server is listening for connections on 127.0.0.1, this means that it only accepts requests coming from the same host. 0.0.0.0 means that Rails is listening on all interfaces, not just the … Read more

Explain what &quot means

I can’t find a clear explanation of what it means when a value/variable is surrounded by ‘&quot’ and why it happens. For example, I have a simple function which returns an array containing an id. For some reason, it returns: not: which I would have expected. Can someone explain what ‘&quot’ is and why/how they … Read more

Advanced AREL or just Rails Query for has_many through search by association

Given I have two star players named “Lisa” and “Bo”, how would would I search the Team Model to find all the teams that have both Lisa and Bo on them, without looping through. All the has_many through query examples assume I’m only looking for the teams by one association attribute. But I want to … Read more

400 Bad Request – request header or cookie too large

It’s just what the error says – Request Header Or Cookie Too Large. One of your headers is really big, and nginx is rejecting it. You’re on the right track with large_client_header_buffers. If you check the docs, you’ll find it’s only valid in http or server contexts. Bump it up to a server block and it will work. By the way, the … Read more