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A Journey in Payment World – Part 3: what is happening here?

A Journey in Payment World This is a series about integrating a payment system into your web application. While inspired by our own experience, and so Stripe and Ruby oriented, most of the problems and...

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PullReview: GitHub Status and others

First of all, dear reader, I wish you Happy Holidays! This blog post is about the last release of PullReview, that includes a few features before the end of the year: Same Actions are grouped for Code...

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A Journey in Payment world – Part 4: we have a Plan

A Journey in Payment World This is a series about integrating a payment system into your web application. While inspired by our own experience, and so Stripe and Ruby oriented, most of the problems and...

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One Year of PullReview

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) I don’t scale Two years ago, I was still employed as team leader of an architecture team in a mid-sized company. The pay was good (this is Belgium, so not stellar, but clearly...

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How to name your Ruby classes & methods using Soylent Green

Naming is not really just about naming, as per exhibit one: class A attr_accessor :a1, :b1 def a() "#{a1} #{b1}" end end Could you tell me what this code does? Now let’s check another sample: class...

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Which development editor should I use when developing in Ruby on Rails?

You’ve just started to code your first Ruby on Rails application and you’re wondering if there isn’t a better editor than the one you’re using. Maybe you’re a beginner and you started with a simple...

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TDD your Rails app without convincing your boss

You’ve just been hired by a company to work on an existing project. When discovering its code base, you realize the tests are very rare, even totally absent. You don’t wait to discuss what you think a...

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7 daily use cases of Ruby Array

Ruby and Ruby on Rails come with great reference documentation (Ruby doc, Rails doc, or alternatives such as APIdock, or the recent omniref covering also all gems). But when you need to find how to...

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Get notified of your Rails app exceptions with Errbit

So, you’ve shipped something Congratulations! Now, hopefully, users are coming to use your application, whether a brand new blog system or photo application or whatever great product you created. While...

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Avoid spilling your Rails application secrets

Oups, I just sent the production password in plain text through the internet Following last week post about Errbit, I thought to share something related. When using external system like Errbit or...

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