The Honeybadger Developer Blog

Tutorials, product info and good advice from the Honeybadger crew.

Currency Calculations in JavaScript

When you do calculations with money, every penny needs to be accounted for. Unfortunately, JS's Number type isn't up to the task. In this article, Julio Sampaio shows us why and teaches us how to do currency calculations the right way in JavaScript.

Build an Uptime Monitoring System in Ruby with GCE, Cloud Storage, and PubSub

Google Cloud Platform provides developers with many tools to build scalable apps in a way friendlier than AWS. In this article, Olasubomi Oluwalana shows us how we can use the Google Cloud Engine, Storage, and PubSub offerings to build an uptime monitoring system in Ruby.
  • author photo By Subomi Oluwalana
  • #ruby
  • Sep 6, 2021

Using Hotwire with Rails

Hotwire is a way to build modern web applications without much JavaScript by sending HTML over the wire. In this article, Renata Marques introduces us to Hotwire and walks us through a simple example.
  • author photo By Renata Marques
  • #ruby
  • Aug 30, 2021

Using Tailwind CSS with Rails

Tailwind CSS is a popular CSS framework that helps developers quickly build and style web pages with a unique utility-based approach. Unlike other CSS frameworks, it comes with its own build tooling. In this article, Jeffery Morhous walks us through setting up Tailwind CSS with Rails and Webpacker.
  • author photo By Jeffrey Morhous
  • #ruby
  • Aug 23, 2021

Building A Full-Stack Application With Vue, Vuex and Rails

Vue is a popular front-end that is especially useful for Rails developers since it was designed to be incrementally adoptable. That means you can use Vue for parts of your UI without having to rebuild everything from scratch. In this article, John Emmanual will introduce us to Vue, show us how to set it up in Rails, and walk us through a simple project.
  • author photo By John Emmanuel
  • #ruby
  • Aug 16, 2021

Server-Side Source Maps in Node.js

Node.js projects in Honeybadger can now officially take advantage of source maps, just like Client-Side JavaScript projects can.

Building a Programming Language in Ruby: The Interpreter, Part 2

This article is the next in our series about building a toy programming language in Ruby. Alex Braha Stoll shows us how to implement the interpreter for function definitions, variable declarations, and more.
  • author photo By Alex Braha Stoll
  • #ruby
  • Aug 9, 2021

Using ActiveRecord's #update_counters to Prevent Race Conditions

Race conditions are arguably the most insidious kind of bug; they're intermittent, subtle, and most likely to occur in production. ActiveRecord's `update_counter` provides us with a convenient way to avoid race conditions when incrementing or decrementing values in the database. In this article, Jonathan Miles shows us how to use it, how it's implemented, and other approaches to avoiding race conditions.

Deploying Rails to AWS Lambda

Lambda is an excellent option for deploying lower-traffic web services when you don't want to maintain another server and you want easy access to all of AWS's other services. In this article, Godwin Ekuma shows us step-by-step how to deploy our Rails apps to AWS Lambda.
  • author photo By Godwin Ekuma
  • #ruby
  • Jul 26, 2021

Backend JavaScript News Brief (Q2 2021)

In-person and remote conferences are spinning up. NodeJS, Deno and TypeScript releases. Reflections on the next 10 years of Node
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