Blog articles tagged 'rails'

How to Manage Application Secrets in EC2

Are you deploying your apps to EC2 and wondering how to store your application secrets? Learn how to use KMS and IAM roles to store your secrets on S3 securely.

By Benjamin Curtis
#ruby #rails
Oct 17, 2016

How HTTP headers get passed from nginx to your Ruby app

Whether you use rails, Sinatra, or Lotus, you don't really have to think about how cookies and other headers pass from nginx or apache, to the application server and into your app. We're going to examine this journey in a little more depth. Because it turns out that the story of headers contains a lot of interesting information about the history of the web.

By Starr Horne
#ruby #rails
Dec 28, 2015

Ditching your single page app for...turbolinks?

You tried turbolinks, once, and soon your app began to fail in strange and wonderful ways. But some people make it work. What's their secret? The answer is so simple, it just might amaze you.

By Starr Horne
#javascript #rails #ruby
Sep 9, 2015

How to add context data to exceptions in Ruby

Sometimes the standard backtrace / error message combo isn't enough. Sometimes you need extra data to locate the cause of an error. In this post we'll discuss three easy ways to add more context to your exceptions.

By Starr Horne
#rails #ruby
Jul 23, 2015

Remote Debugging with Byebug, Rails and Pow

Byebug is a simple to use, feature rich debugger for Ruby 2.x. In this post, we'll discuss how to set up remote debugging with byebug so that you can debug code running in Pow, Unicorn or other application servers.

By Starr Horne
#rails #ruby
Jul 15, 2015

Using Temporary Tables in PostgreSQL with Rails

Here at Honeybadger, we have a lot of data, which presents us with a few problems. One of the biggest challenges is data culling. Removing old data that nobody uses any more, while keeping the good stuff. Complicating matters is the fact that our...

By Starr Horne
#rails
Mar 5, 2015

How we implemented in-browser alerts with Pusher, Rails and Pnotify

Today we're announcing the launch of a fun feature: In-browser notifications. Once enabled on the Notifications tab of the Project Settings page, you'll get a popup notification in the corner of the browser window when one of the events occurs that...

By Benjamin Curtis
#rails
May 28, 2014

A better method of handling multistep forms in rails

If there ever was a task that seemed straightforward from the outside, but then turned out to be really complicated when you got into it, a multi-step form is it. Why are multi-step forms so hard? The main challenge seems to be validating partial...

By Starr Horne
#rails
Feb 12, 2014

Testing controllers in Rails 4 engines

Testing controllers in Rails engines with RSpec requires you to jump through some hoops. If memory serves, it was slightly trickier in Rails 3 than it is now in Rails 4. Fortunately the fix is pretty easy, if not obvious. By the way, I'm standing...

By Starr Horne
#rails
Jan 29, 2014

The data mapper pattern in Rails 4 using the perpetuity gem

In this post I'll describe how to get started using the Data Mapper pattern in Rails 4. But first, I'd like to explain what the Data Mapper pattern is, why you might want to use it, and the history of the Data Mapper + Rails combo. What Data Mapper...

By Starr Horne
#rails
Jan 15, 2014

What everybody ought to know about Ruby on Rails 4.1

One of the most important things to know about Rails 4.1 is that even the beta version is stable enough for some companies to use it in production. For example,Basecamp began Rails 4.1 beta1. Other important features from the release notes include...

By Starr Horne
#rails
Jan 7, 2014

Speed up Rails tests 10x by using PORO domain models

If you're like most Rails developers I know (including myself), you're probably used to writing "unit" tests in RSpec that load up the whole Rails framework before each test, which takes a few seconds to do, even if you're only testing one tiny thing...

By Starr Horne
#rails
Dec 17, 2013

Getting Started with AngularJS and Rails 4

Getting started with AngularJS isn't hard. The documentation is some of the best out there and it's tutorials are simple enough. But things get tricky when you start combining technologies. If you're using CoffeeScript instead of straight JavaScript...

By Starr Horne
#ruby #rails #javascript
Dec 11, 2013

Zero downtime migrations: 500 million rows

Data makes things hard In this article I'm going to go over some of the tricks we use to handle large data migrations at Honeybadger. Check out the video for a quick overview. When you have a lot of data, your life gets harder. When you only have...

By Starr Horne
#rails
Aug 6, 2013

The Inadequate Guide to Rails Security

Programming is awesome If you're like me, you got into this business because you love building awesome apps. Let's take a second to reflect on the good times. ...back to the real world. It sucks that you even have to worry about security. It...

By Starr Horne
#rails
Mar 19, 2013

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