Highlights of what happened in our #dev channel on Slack this week.
Rocket launches show us that we can know that two future events will be simultaneous, or what the local time will be, but not both.
Time dependent tests are difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms don’t present themselves until it’s too late. This article will help you determine if your test suite is time dependent.
Here are the risks and common scenarios we see when a team doesn’t have a plan for ongoing maintenance for their Rails application. We also share how we support clients in these situations with our new, flexible, Rails Maintenance offering.
More detail on how the thoughtbot team built one of the first Alexa skills in Arabic, and what we learned about using Ruby on Rails to support the development of Alexa Skills in the process.
Adding site-wide configuration with a Rails model can be quite easy to do with Administrate.
Move fast but don’t break things.
A visual answer to the question “what data is created when I execute this test?”.
You probably use some type of error monitoring software to notify you when an exception is raised in your application, but are you being notified when there is an anomaly in user behavior?
How do you even save a “duration”, let alone query for records by that value? It’s actually easier than you think.