The Honeybadger Developer Blog
Tutorials, product info, and good advice from the Honeybadger crew.
Objects as Ruby Hash Keys
One often-overlooked feature of Ruby's hashes is that you can use any object as a hash key, not just strings and symbols. In this post we examine how Optcarrot, the Ruby NES emulator, uses this feature to optimize its mapped memory implementation.
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By Starr Horne
- Feb 21, 2017
Testing Ruby's Unicode Support
To see how far Ruby's Unicode support has come, I tested every string method to see which ones violate the principle of least surprise. The results are presented as a handy table that you can reference to see which string manipulation methods are Unicode-unfriendly.
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By Starr Horne
- Feb 14, 2017
Introducing our Sidekiq cluster script
Here's an easy way to run multiple Sidekiq processes via systemd.
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By Benjamin Curtis
- Feb 8, 2017
Simple tips to make scaling your database easier as you grow
In this post we'll discuss a few easy wins - things you can do when a Rails project is young to make it much easier to scale its data layer as the project grows.
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By Starr Horne
- Feb 6, 2017
Our Postgres Infrastructure
We love Postgres at Honeybadger, but it does require some care and feeding. Here's what we've done to scale Postgres along with the growing needs of our business.
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By Benjamin Curtis
- Feb 1, 2017
JQuery-Free Rails and Legacy Browsers
Rails 5.1 will no longer depend on JQuery. I ran the UJS test suite on several versions of IE to see how nicely the new system plays with legacy browsers.
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By Starr Horne
- Jan 30, 2017
Rescue's elegant trick for knowing which exceptions to catch
You probably know how to ask Ruby to rescue specific exceptions. But how does Ruby know if a particular exception meets your criteria? In this article, we'll walk through Ruby's simple exception matching mechanism and see how we can use it to our advantage.
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By Starr Horne
- Jan 10, 2017
Common Rails idioms that kill database performance
Many of the most common ActiveRecord idioms produce SQL which doesn't scale well as your dataset gets larger. In this article I discuss three of the worst offenders and offer work-arounds.
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By Starr Horne
- Jan 3, 2017
A beginner's guide to exceptions in Ruby
The other day I was searching for an introduction to Ruby exceptions written for beginners - people who know basic Ruby syntax but aren't really sure what an exception is or why it's useful. I couldn't find one, so I decided to have a go at it myself. I hope you find it useful.
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By Starr Horne
- Dec 6, 2016
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