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

Plugging Git Leaks: Preventing and Fixing Information Exposure in Repositories

Have you ever been neck-deep building a new feature? You're working at capacity. You need to test something out so you paste an API key into your source file with every intention of removing it later. But you forget. You push to GitHub. It's an easy mistake, and potentially a very expensive one. In this article, Julien Cretel explores the nuances of this kind of data leak, offers suggestions for recovery when leaks happen and gives us options for preventing them in the first place.

Decoupling Ruby: Delegation vs Dependency Injection

We've all worked with tightly-coupled code. If a butterfly flaps its wings in China, the unit tests break. Maintaining a system like this is...unpleasant. In this article, Jonathan Miles dives into the origins of tight-coupling. He demonstrates how you can use dependency injection (DI) to decouple code. Then he introduces a novel decoupling technique based on delegation that can be useful when DI is not an option.
  • author photo By Jonathan Miles
  • #ruby
  • Feb 18, 2020

Opening The Ruby Concurrency Toolbox

As a Ruby developer you probably use tools like Sidekiq that rely on concurrency. But would you know how to *build* your own sidekiq, or add concurrency to an existing app? This article will open Ruby's concurrency toolbox and show you how each tool works. It shows you how to solve the same problem in multiple ways, so you can compare tools. And it looks at new tools that might possibly ship with future versions of ruby.
  • author photo By Alex Braha Stoll
  • #ruby
  • Feb 11, 2020

F*ck-That Money

It's time to throw out the Silicon Valley bullshit that perpetuates the idea of "F*ck-You Money."

Breadcrumbs for JavaScript

Breadcrumbs can help you debug client-side JavaScript applications, and are available to all Honeybadger customers as of today.

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Exploring Big-O Notation With Ruby

You know Big-O is important - not only for acing your next job interview but for knowing how code works at scale. But have you ever taken the time to go beyond a superficial understanding of the subject? In this article, Julie Kent uses equal parts math and Ruby to reveal the beating heart of Big-O and show us how it ticks.
  • author photo By Julie Kent
  • #ruby
  • Feb 4, 2020

A Rubyist's Introduction to Character Encoding, Unicode and UTF-8

Have you ever dealt with a unicode bug? Where plain text — the substance you work with all day — can no longer be trusted? It can be disorienting to say the least! This article will help prepare you so that the next time that happens you’ll be able to spend less time hyperventilating and more time troubleshooting.
  • author photo By José M. Gilgado
  • #ruby
  • Jan 28, 2020

FounderQuest S2 E9 | Is It Time For The Big Rewrite?

This week on FounderQuest Josh, Starr, and Ben talk about the quandary of not knowing how to build something until after you’ve already built it. Therefore, once it's built it can be hard to fight the urge to build it again taking into account all...

FounderQuest S2 E8 | The 2019 Thanksgiving Freestyle Episode

This week on FounderQuest things get wild and the guys throw the show notes out the window. They are kicking it freestyle on this special Thanksgiving episode. All of today’s hard-hitting questions are answered:  Dark meat or light meat?  Turkey...

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