Showing git commits in a Rails view
I have an administration panel for my Rails application that shows various information. I’ve found it helpful to show the last few commits along with a link to the repository. Here’s the code:...
View ArticleFreshbooks/Heroku and Twilio APIs
I have been playing with the Freshbooks API and the Twilio API as part of a contest that Twilio is running. It’s a great excuse to try something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I ran into a few...
View ArticleGood for now does not mean good forever
КартиниSmallPayroll.ca was my first big Rails project, and looking back at some of the code, it shows. One of the first things I did was the timesheet. The form has 21 input fields per employee, then...
View ArticleTwilio Client Quickstart – In Ruby
икони цени I’ve wanted to play with the Twilio client for a while. They have this great quick start but it’s written in PHP. Now I don’t mind PHP, but I prefer Ruby. If I’m going to write anything...
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Making New Relic Awesome
Update – if you sign up through this link, New Relic will send you $25 gift card for trying it out. Like many Rails people, I use New Relic to monitor my Rails app. At Wave Accounting we even pay for...
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Deploying Rails review
Deploying Rails Automate, Deploy, Scale, Maintain, and Sleep at Night Anthony Burns and Tom Copeland “Deploying Rails” is more than just about deploying a Rails application, it’s about that and...
View ArticleMixpanel track_links and track_forms
I’ve long been a fan of MixPanel and was happy that I got to get to use them again over at Wave Payroll. Last time I used them you could only track a page view, but now they have added track_links and...
View ArticleUnderstanding Capistrano hooks and deploy vs deploy:migrations
Capistrano is a deployment framework for Rails, though it can be extended to do pretty much anything. The system comes with a bunch of built in tasks, and each task can be made up of other tasks and...
View ArticleFind method definitions in vim with ctags
Ever asked yourself one of these questions? Where is the foo method defined in my code? Where is the foo method defined in the Rails source? Then you spend a couple of minutes either grepping your...
View ArticleReview: Agile Web Development with Rails 4
I had the good fortune to receive Agile Web Development with Rails 4 from the publisher to review. The book is really two books in one. The first is a walkthrough of building a simple Rails 4...
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