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...
View ArticlePullReview: 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleOne 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWhich 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...
View ArticleTDD 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...
View Article7 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...
View ArticleGet 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...
View ArticleAvoid 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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