Memoization in Ruby
Memoization is a technique employed in many languages which allows you to cache the results of slow or expensive operations and return the cached result whenever the method is subsequently...
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Local gems for local apps
If you’re a keen gem developer like myself and you regularly use them in your other applications, you may find it useful to know of this quick tip. It allows...
Auto Permitted Attributes in Rails Forms
I’m sitting here at PHP South Coast, surrounded by PHP developers and I’m writing some Ruby. I’ve come up with a nice little gem to avoid the extra work involved...
Using UUIDs
Usually we just use incrementing integers as primary keys on our database objects however in Coact we're using UUIDs instead.
Staytus — an open source status site
Staytus is another open source project I got off the ground a few months ago. It provides a content management system for managing service statuses for your network or web...
Smoother image attachments
Drag and dropping file attachments into your tickets and discussions just got better. Drag a PNG or JPEG image onto your update to have a link to it automatically inserted...
Improved Slack Notifications
The Viaduct notification system provides you with a great way to ensure that you keep everyone in the loop when things happen on your Viaduct apps.
Console Aliases
If you're a keen user of the Viaduct console, you'll likely find that you usually open up a console and run the same command over and over again.
Budgets
A couple of weekends ago, I found myself needing some sort of application to manage the annual budget for aTech but manage my personal monthly budget. I tried to create...
Tidy up your Branches
If you're anything like me you're terrible at tidying up your remote branches once you've merged your work, leading you to having a great big, long list in Codebase. This...
Bitbucket Webhooks
Recently Bitbucket have updated their Repository settings with direct support for Webhooks, and will be removing support for their old Services features in the future.
Excluded Files per Server
Deploy has the ability to explicitly exclude files from your repository based on a file pattern match.