Introducing Honeybadger for Crystal
Good news, Crystal developers! We just shipped an official Crystal shard for Honeybadger. Track errors and keep your users happy.
Honeybadger Developer Blog
Tutorials, product info, and good advice from the Honeybadger crew.
Building a Real-Time Chat App in Rails Using ActionCable and Turbo
Turbo and ActionCable make it a snap to create Rails applications that respond to user behavior in real-time. In this article, Abiodun shows us how to use them together to create a full-featured chat application in Rails.
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.
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.
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.