The Honeybadger Developer Blog

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

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

PHP News Brief (Q2 2021)

PHPDay, WebSummerCamp and LaraCon. Symfony CVEs. Laravel 9 release date is pushed back. PHP announces 8.1 release date and deprecates ticks. Laravel celebrates its 10th birthday!

Python News Brief (Q2 2021)

EuroPython, PyCon, DjangoCon, and SciPy rev up. A PyDoc CVE. Flask has a major new release. FastAPI and Django have minor releases. Discussions on a faster python

Go News Brief (Q2 2021)

Several in-person Go conferences this year. The go collective has joined StackOverflow. A TinyGo release. Discussions on fuzzing and Generics.

Ruby News Brief (Q2 2021)

RailsConf videos are up. RubyConf 2021 will be in-person. A REXML CVE. Basecamp fallout. Discussion of testing and containers.

Frontend JavaScript News Brief (Q2 2021)

JSCAMP Virtual is open for registrations. Angular DevTools released. Vue will drop IE11 support. React 18 roadmap is discussed.

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

Building a Documentation Workflow in Rails

Good docs make happy customers. But documentation is HARD. You have to figure out what's important and write it up in a way that's tailored to your audiences and consistent across the site. Now you need to set up a website, publish the docs and maintain them as your product changes. Fortunately, we have seasoned technical writer Kate Bartolo here to walk us through the whole process.
  • author photo By Kate Bartolo
  • #ruby
  • Jul 19, 2021

Refactoring Your Rails App With Service Objects

Rails apps tend to start simple, with clean models and controllers. Then you start adding features. Before you know it, your models and controllers are big, unwieldy, and hard to understand. Refactoring into service objects is a great way to split these big pieces up, so they're easier to understand, test, and maintain.
  • author photo By Godwin Ekuma
  • #ruby
  • Jul 12, 2021

Understanding How Rbenv, RubyGems And Bundler Work Together

Rbenv, RubyGems, and Bundler work together to give us a lot of control over our code's environment. If you know how they work, you'll be better prepared to troubleshoot any problems you encounter. In this article, Olasubomi walks us through the basics of how these three tools do what they do.
  • author photo By Subomi Oluwalana
  • #ruby
  • Jul 5, 2021
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