The Honeybadger Developer Blog

Tutorials, product info, and good advice from the Honeybadger crew.

A guide to PHP attributes

Attributes are a powerful feature in PHP that can be used to add structured, machine-readable metadata to annotate your code. In this article, we'll look at what attributes are, how to use them, and how to create your own.

Curated dashboards in Honeybadger

With all your data in one place, Honeybadger is quickly becoming the only monitoring tool you need to keep your web applications healthy and your users happy—and with curated dashboards, it's never been easier to get started!

Adding config to AWS ECS tasks

If you want to run a Docker container in AWS ECS, but the image requires a configuration file to work properly, are you stuck creating a custom image just to add that file? Nope! Learn how to add that file at deployment time.

How to build a Rails API with rate limiting

How secure is your API? Learn how to build an API with Ruby on Rails and use rack-attack to keep the bad actors out.

Blue Ridge Ruby is exactly what we need

This year's Blue Ridge Ruby conference in Asheville, North Carolina, was not only a wonderful experience but also highlighted the opportunity (and what's at stake) in the Ruby community.

Clean code with PHP namespaces

Unravel the complexity of PHP namespaces and discover how they can transform your codebase into a clean and well-organized masterpiece!

Adding views to an API-only Rails app

What if you started with a Rails API-only application and now find yourself needing a front-end? In this article we explore how to add a vanilla Rails front-end to your API-only application.

Sending email in Laravel with Mailgun

Sending email from a web app is a common feature. But what happens when you need to send an email to 5,000 recipients? In this article, we'll cover how to do this using Mailgun's "batch sending" feature.

Running Solid Queue in production Rails apps

Say goodbye to the complexities and costs of managing external services like Redis, and hello to Solid Queue. In this article, we'll explore using Solid Queue to process background jobs, from integration to deployment, and even monitoring!

Shipping Rails logs with Kamal and Vector

You've deployed your Rails app with Kamal, but now what? How do you know what's happening under the hood? You can tail your logs on the server (otherwise known as hard mode), but there's a better way: ship them off-site with Vector!
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