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Since we started to work on our own products, it was clear we have to keep dialog with our users in order to maintain best direction for the products’ evolution. After a few more or less successful tries, we ran into Drift, nice and clean solution for customer support (and …
ES6 module system is a great addition to JavaScript language, but sometimes it’s at odds with writing tests, because you need to mock imported function. Usual solution is to use Dependency Injection akin to what is used in Angular.JS. You need to wrap the whole module into some function and …
Shared examples are a good tool to describe some complex behavior and reuse it across different parts of a spec. Things get more complicated when you have the same behavior, but it has some slight variations for different contexts. In this case it’s easy to end-up having a bunch of …
We are glad to introduce you the new version of Smart Checklist add-on for JIRA Cloud. It’s hard to believe, but the first version of our add-on has been launched on Atlassian marketplace half a year ago!Over this time, Smart Checklist has become a MUST tool in our company’s processes …
In product development, original idea takes lots of transformations on it’s way to the actual implementation (writing code which works and provides desired benefit, that is). One of those is transition from sketches/designs (“sketches” further) done by UX/designer into actual stories that developers would take to iteration. Writing stories should …
Changes all around! In 2016 we changed locations of our offices both in Kyiv and in Krakow. Railsware has developed a lot in last 5 years and for all that time we’ve felt a strong need of finding new, cosy spaces where we would feel comfortable and productive. After months …
As it is well known by (almost) every Mac user who is alive and conscious, On October 27th Apple unveiled their updated notebook line. Although there are a ton of buzz about it being underpowered and overpriced, we would not rush to conclusions until actual devices will be shipped to …
While I don’t think that anyone who has ever used any modification of Agile methodology would require definition of a stand-up meeting, its still needed to have some base to start from. Let’s say this is a team meeting, usually done standing, so physical inconvenience would force people to be …
Regular Demos – is one of the most powerful instruments of managing your client’s expectations. That’s the way you can formally get acceptance of your team’s work and eliminate frustration risks caused by missing functionality. It’s like “selling” product to the consumer and motivating them to buy it. This article …
I often hear the same question: if Elixir works on the Erlang VM, why not use Erlang for programming web-applications instead of Elixir? The short answer is – you can’t create something akin to Phoenix/Ecto with pure Erlang. Does it mean that Elixir is a totally different language? No, it …
A pretty cool and ambitious idea of writing non-web applications with web technologies is all over the place nowadays. We’ve got React Native for developing mobile apps with JavaScript, there are NW.js (formerly node-webkit) and Electron (formerly atom-shell) for building desktop applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and many other …
Do you know how to make quick, simple pools inside your group without any specific form-based tools? Google or Wufoo survey requires plenty of preparation and distribution time. Slack is good We use Slack messenger as team collaboration tool inside Railsware.Luckily it provides nice ability to add reaction to every …
Most front-end developers have already heard about PostCSS, maybe some of them have tried to use it. It is quite a popular tool nowadays, but not yet as massively used as SASS or LESS. However, the buzz around PostCSS is increasing dynamically and benefits over other systems becoming even more …
In this article, I am trying to describe my own view on stories in product development and to share some efficient ways of working with them.Let’s start, however, with the question of why there should ever be stories. I have to mention that stories is just one of tools Railsware …
Having real screenshot of a failed integration spec can save hours of debugging. We had screenshot with error on the local development environment, and wanted to have it on Continuous Integration server. Luckily for us, it’s a real no-brainer, if you use CircleCI. There is no need for custom S3 …
Responsive web design is not a feature these days, bur rather a must. So, while implementing responsive layout in your application, you might find helpful adding verifications to your acceptance tests and ensure accessibility/inaccessibility to your app functionality depending on the screen size. Capybara has a method to resize the …
Hello my dear friends.Today we will learn about SQL Joins and my new little app that helps to build and understand them. SQL join A SQL join clause combines records from two or more tables in a database. It creates a set that can be saved as a table or …
While we’ve been developing one of our products (Mailtrap), we needed to create 2 column page layout with inner blocks stretching down to the whole height of browser window with sticky footer and header. The page layout looks like this:This layout has several nesting levels which makes it more complicated to …
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 …