ColorScope – a way for critical data acquisition and prioritization
During customer interaction and product development we usually face two big issues: requirements are not structured expectations are not properly managed Let’s dig deeper into the easiest way of how to...
View ArticleRemove QA headache while testing email delivery
Are you a QA engineer or tester? Have you ever sent emails to real users by mistake? Did you have to create additional email accounts for testing and was it difficult to trace emails from a bunch of...
View ArticleA couple of Airbrake tips
No software is complete without bugs and no Rails application is complete without proper exception tracking. In most cases we choose Airbrake to collect those exceptions for us. Here’s a couple of tips...
View ArticleMoSCoW or how to reduce 50 todos to 5.
It’s common when you have to do a lot, but time/money is not on your side. The first and obvious wish would be to squeeze it all into term/budget you’ve got. But conditions would rather be unfriendly...
View ArticleRails 4.0 ActiveSupport small improvement
A few days ago my patch with the beginning_of_week config option has been merged to Rails master, so starting from Rails 4.0 we’ll gain full control over the week start day. Preface Working on...
View Articleyield-gotcha every Ruby developer should be aware of
Preface Using yield and blocks is what makes Ruby so different from other scripting languages. But in some cases yield can lead to unpredictable behavior and it’s crucial to understand what can go...
View ArticleAsynchronous Airbrake delivery – avoiding latency in application response time
TL;DR Update airbrake-gem to last version and enable asynchronous delivery option to avoid latency in application response time. Introduction We used Airbrake (ex-Hoptoad) to track errors in our...
View ArticleJRuby and PostgreSQL from Railsware at RubyShift 2012
With a little delay, right on a first week of December why not to share 2 speeches that our guys had during RubyShift 2012 conference. Here you go! Deadsimple JRuby troubleshooting by Sergey Boiko....
View ArticleSpeeding up Authlogic login for Postgres and MySQL
Update (2012, 10 December) Authologic-team patched weird behavior with (I)LIKE and now Postgres users can make everything without clutches. Just use new version 3.2.0. Introduction User authentication...
View ArticleChrome extension that improves New Relic navigation experience
Recently we’ve released Chrome extension that improves New Relic navigation experience, by giving ability to return to time spans you’ve selected previously. If you running out of time while...
View ArticleFixing multithreading for Rails in development mode
Preface In Rails, automatic code reloading in development mode is based on autoload, which is not threadsafe. It means you can’t use it while developing multithreaded Rails applications(especially for...
View ArticleHow to set up the Heroku tools for deployment with multiple accounts
This is a guide to setting up the Heroku toolset so that you can deploy an existing Heroku app, or create a new app on Heroku. As you may not yet know, the vanilla Heroku toolset can only work with...
View ArticleHeroku Queuing Time, Part1: Problem
One of the most exciting things about Heroku is that you can scale in a single click – just add more dynos, and you can immediately handle higher load. This post is about our experience of hosting high...
View ArticleNew Relic Goes Mobile with New Relic for Native iOS & Android Apps
This is a guest blog post from Bill Hodak, Director of Product Marketing at New Relic, the SaaS-based application management provider and a Railsware partner. If you’re a mobile app developer, you know...
View ArticleHeroku Mailtrap add-on: dummy SMTP for emails testing
Good news for the development teams who run their applications on Heroku cloud application platform and need to constantly test transactional and other emails sent from your app. Railsware is proud to...
View ArticleAPI with Ruby on Rails: useful tricks
This article is about gotchas you should be aware of while building your API with Ruby on Rails. Controller tricks: API on Metal Sooner or later each Rails developer come to a point when he wants to...
View ArticleGlobalize Your Configuration
Quite a lot of applications face the problem of storing configuration data, where configuration differs for development, test and production environments. Yaml files is a common way of organising...
View ArticleIntro to Google Scripts
Did you ever know that you can create custom scripts for Google Spreadsheets? The ones that would allow you easily manage your data, i.e. copy it, move between spreadsheets, calculate complex cases and...
View ArticleCapistrano recipe for checking Travis CI build status
Using Continuous Integration is a must for any mature development process, but in the hurry of delivering to production it’s easy to forget about checking build status before issuing “cap production...
View ArticleUseful Google Spreadsheet Script Triggers
In my previous blog post, I’ve provided a brief intro to Google Scripts and with this article, I’d like to share several useful code examples that might come handy. Problem ‘Exceeded maximum execution...
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