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Hoptoad's notifier now available in convenient gem form

Include the Hoptoad gem in your Ruby app for error notifications.
Joe Ferris
January 27, 2010
- Web
- Airbrake
- Open Source
MyGem.configure Block

How to write conventional configuration code in Ruby.
Dan Croak
January 20, 2010
- Web
- Ruby
- Clearance
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Business: Our Hiring Process

How we hire designers and developers.
Chad Pytel
January 18, 2010
- Playbook
On-the-fly image handling with Dragonfly

Dragonfly lets you dynamically crop, resize and transform images through the URL.
Mark Evans
January 13, 2010
- Rails
- Ruby
- New Bamboo
- Web
On The Go

Our next Ruby on Rails workshops are coming soon.
Dan Croak
January 12, 2010
- News
- Web
Writing a Hoptoad Notifier: Contacting the Toad

An example of writing a library to hit the Hoptoad error notification API.
Mike Burns
January 8, 2010
- Web
- Python
- Airbrake
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Business: Why We Don't Subcontract

No subcontracting.
Chad Pytel
January 7, 2010
- Playbook
Snake Game using HTML5 Canvas tag

Learn how to iteratively develop the Snake Game for the web browser.
Paul Jensen
December 31, 2009
- CSS
- HTML
- JavaScript
- New Bamboo
- Web
2009 Ruby survey results

Thanks to the 1000+ developers who participated in our ruby community survey...
Matt Jankowski
December 30, 2009
- Web
- Ruby
Factory Bot step definitions for Cucumber

Did you know… Factory Bot includes some steps for your integration testing...
Dan Croak
December 15, 2009
- Web
- Testing
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
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