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During setup of Jasmine 2.0 for AngularJS 1.0.7 application it turned out that they are not compatible. The reason is that Angular 1.0.7 is compatible with the older version of Jasmine – 1.3. And there were several breaking changes in Jasmine private API which was used by AngularJS. There were …
After working with branch per feature for a while any Git-repository becomes a mess of outdated and not finished branches. To deal with this issue, we need to clean-up three kinds of branches: In this tutorial we suppose, that “master” – is a default branch, where everything is merged (for …
Sometimes, it’s required to setup Rails logger for storing logs into several backends. In our case we decided to use Loggly, but also wanted to leave old file-based logging. Despite the actual solution is very simple, it’s hard to find it. The best match on StackOverflow suggests to create some …
Ruby doesn’t have procedural module akin to Python or Perl module. Usually, one uses class methods as a typical way to mimic this functionality. Class methods in Ruby are also very handy for supporting instance methods with fabrics and other common-for-class functionality. This is clearly seen in ActiveRecord::Base with dozens …
VCR is a powerful beast which makes HTTP-request mocking a real no-brainer. If you haven’t tried it before, just do it, it will make your life much easier. VCR works in really simple manner – when you issue request via some HTTP API, at first it records them and on …
I was once in a hurry to share GitHub repository with a colleague who didn’t have access to it and we decided to use local git-daemon. However, handling all the little quirks that would make it work took a lot more efforts than just dropping a repository archive via Skype. …
Using Continuous Integration is a must for any mature development process, but in the hurry of delivering to production it’s easy to forget about checking build status before issuing “cap production deploy”. What if while running Capistrano deployment, script will automatically check CI status and prevent us from delivering a …
Update (2012, 10 December) Authologic-team patched weird behavior with (I)LIKE and now Postgres users can make everything without clutches. Just use new version 3.2.0. Introduction User authentication – is the most utilized part of Authlogic gem. But default configuration of current version(3.1.2) doesn’t use database indexes or their usage is …
TL;DR Update airbrake-gem to last version and enable asynchronous delivery option to avoid latency in application response time. Introduction We used Airbrake (ex-Hoptoad) to track errors in our application. But, several months ago we noticed delays in application response time, caused by Airbrake error reporting. In some cases delay got …
Preface Using yield and blocks is what makes Ruby so different from other scripting languages. But in some cases yield can lead to unpredictable behavior and it’s crucial to understand what can go wrong. Let’s consider next code: File.open(“/etc/hosts”, “r”) do |f| content << f.read end File is opened, used …