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

Character Encoding for PHP Developers: Unicode, UTF-8 and ASCII

As developers, our world is made of text, but computers only understand numbers. What gives? A process called character encoding maps numbers to letters. Easy enough, until you realize that we need to encode every character from every language while keeping file sizes small and staying compatible with legacy systems. In this article, José shows us everything we need to know about character encoding for PHP developers - including what to do when it breaks!

React on Rails: Building a Simple App

To decide on a front-end for your Rails app, you need a feel for the options. Does a certain JS framework speak to you or does it make you feel dirty inside? There's only one way to find out! In this article, Julio Sampaio walks us through creating a React app from scratch and integrating it with a Rails back-end via webpacker.

Top Ten Git Tips & Tricks

Let's face facts. Git is not fun. Git is not friendly. No. It's just infuriatingly useful, so we're stuck with it. But what if you could make git more friendly? More convenient? Would that make your day a little less stressful? In this article, Julie Kent shows us how we can do this with just a few simple tweaks.

Understanding Insertion Sort in Ruby

There are lots of ways to sort data. Insertion sort is particularly interesting because it sorts the data in place and is pretty easy to understand. Of course, most of us just use the #sort method. But interviewers still love to ask questions about sorting algorithms and related topics like Big-O notation. In this post, you'll learn not only how insertion sort works but also how to implement it yourself in ruby.

Rails' Hidden Gems: ActiveSupport StringInquirer

If you've ever checked the environment in your Rails app with Rails.env.production? you've used a fascinating little utility class called StringInquirer. In this post, Jonathan Miles dives into the rails codebase to show us exactly how StringInquirer works and how we can bring a little of its magic to our own apps.

Using Angular with Rails 5

Before you can decide on a front-end for your Rails app, you need a feel for the options. Does a particular JS framework speak to you or does it make you feel dirty inside? There's only one way to find out! In this article, Julio Sampaio walks us through creating an Angular app from scratch and integrating it with a Rails back-end via webpacker.

HTTP Caching in Ruby on Rails Applications

The fastest web page is one you've already loaded. Browsers love to avoid round-trips by caching assets. And HTTP provides ways for us to tell browsers what's changed and what hasn't - so they make the right decisions. In this article, Jonathan Miles introduces us to HTTP caching and shows us how to implement it in Rails.

Introducing Breadcrumbs for Laravel

Debug your Laravel applications better with structured event logs.

Which is fastest? ERB vs. HAML vs. Slim

A fast app means happy users. The speed that your pages render depends on which templating system you use. In this article, Diogo Souza puts the three most popular Ruby templating engines to the test to see which is fastest. In the process, he shows us how to construct benchmarks and do our own investigations into performance.

How Does Git Work?

Without version control systems like git, life as a developer would be very different. It is the center of modern collaborative approaches to development. But how does it work? You know...under the hood? In this piece, Julie Kent gives us a guided tour.
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