Written by thoughtbot, your expert partner for design and development. Sharing my experience building a Chrome extension wrapper around a Rails app: the hard-won expertise, the rabbit holes, and everything I’d do differently. A Rails-flavor…
During a legacy data migration, imported images kept rendering as broken files. Everything looked fine in the logs. No errors, no warnings. It took me some back and forth to finally discover that TDS was quietly truncating varbinary(max) co…
Written by thoughtbot, your expert partner for design and development. …or end up hunting for logic in jobs and controllers. Remove bottlenecks to booking appointments by enabling self-scheduling within your app. Learn how Rails ActiveRecor…
Written by thoughtbot, your expert partner for design and development. Spoiler, the product wasn’t the problem. It was the customer experience. This is the mindset shift that will save you money, and keep your revenue recurring. A step-by-s…
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My current biggest pet peeve in PR reviews is the “Jedi Mind Trick” phrasing for feedback. “We want to be doing X in these situations”, “We don’t want to use default exports”, etc. Who is the “We” in these statements? This feels like an app…
This article is also available in: italiano. It’s the age old question when you want your business to do something new. Should you build it in-house from scratch, or should you buy it from a 3rd party? It can feel like a daunting decision,
Tests have always been part of my journey with Ruby and Rails. We benefit from a great ecosystem and community, implicated in writing maintainable software. Along the way, I have learned good practices, anti-patterns and trade-offs, and I k…
This article is also available in: français. What are the properties of a good CI/CD pipeline and how has that influenced the choices we’ve made in technology and process? The main goal of Continuous Integration (CI) is to give people confi…
Some teams play planning poker to carefully estimate and track their velocity. Others don’t have such a formal process, but can feel on a gut level when the team starts to lose speed. Most teams do slow down. The terrible irony is that addi…
Every year, I speak with a handful of current, former, and potential clients who ask about service-oriented architecture or microservices. The situations all start out with similar intent: Image processing takes a long time and performs ord…
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