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

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.

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.

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.

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.
  • A photo of John Emmanuel 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.

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.

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

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.
  • A photo of Kate Bartolo By Kate Bartolo
  • Ruby
  • Jul 19, 2021
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