A fantastic guide for a dilemma facing any web-based product. Here’s a simple set of Yes/No questions that...
While debugging an intricate issue with failed HTTP requests I have come to appreciate the more advanced features of the...
If you have problems installing a gem and get a error collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status it's...
If the project team consists of at least 2 members, do a daily standup. It should not take much longer...
We organize our daily work with issues in our Linear workspace. Issue format A good issue needs to be precise...
When working on a bigger project, the easiest way to improve your work relation with a client or an external...
When starting a project we always make a good estimate of all known requirements, and plan budgets and available developers...
I recommend install Node.js using nvm. This way you can have multiple Node versions in your ~/.nvm. You also won...
To update your Rubygems to the latest available version, type the following: gem update --system Note that you have a...
You can make both mobile Chrome and mobile Safari display a native app install banner. The banner suggests that the...
If you'd like to preview the crontab that whenever will deploy, run the following: bundle exec whenever
To check which rubygems versions your different rbenv rubys are using, you can use this small bash script:
MarcoPolo shows your app name and environment in your console prompt so you don't accidentally break production Officially supporting...
tig is a command line explorer for Git that is just awesome. Install via apt-get or brew. Handy commands...
Here is how to start your Rails application to accept both HTTP and HTTPS in development. gem install passenger
The Bullet gem is designed to help you increase your application's performance by reducing the number of queries it...
If you see a stacktrace beginning with lines like this: E, [2015-07-16T09:23:10.896146 #23308] ERROR -- : app...
Sometimes you need to run background jobs that you can't make important guarantees about - they may run out of...
Today I ran into this: Invalid gemspec in [/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/specifications/ZenTest-4.9.3.gemspec]: Illformed requirement ["< 2.1, >= 1.8"]. You need a newer Rubygems version. Try...
Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest...
In RSpec you can tag examples or example groups with any tags you like simply by saying describe ReportCreator, slow...
When using threads, you must make your code thread-safe. This can be done by either locking (mutexes) all data...
Web applications can be used by multiple users at the same time. A typical application server like Passenger has multiple...
Dusen (our search gem) is now capable of excluding words, phrases and qualified fields from search. E.g. search for