The Honeybadger Developer Blog
Tutorials, product info, and good advice from the Honeybadger crew.
Using splats to build up and tear apart arrays in Ruby
The humble splat operator (*) is one of those features of Ruby that just gets more interesting the more you look at it. In this post we'll talk about how you can construct and manipulate arrays with splats.
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By Starr Horne
- Nov 4, 2015
How Ruby Interprets and Runs Your Programs
In this post we'll follow the journey of a simple program as it's lexed, parsed and compiled into bytecode. We'll use the tools that Ruby gives us to spy on the interpreter every step of the way.
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By Starr Horne
- Nov 3, 2015
Understanding `self` in Ruby
A lot of problems faced by beginning Rubyists are caused by not understanding self. In this post we'll take a deep dive into self under conditions both common and uncommon.
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By Starr Horne
- Nov 2, 2015
Cool Ruby regex tricks
Ruby supports using regex in lots of interesting ways that go beyond the basic String#match method. In this post I cover a few of my favorites.
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By Starr Horne
- Oct 27, 2015
Using conditionals inside Ruby regular expressions
In this post, we'll dive into regex conditionals and discuss how to work around the limitations in Ruby's implementation of them
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By Starr Horne
- Oct 26, 2015
Benchmarking Ruby refinements
Are refinements slow? I wrote a few benchmarks to find out. The answer was surprising.
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By Starr Horne
- Oct 20, 2015
Understanding Ruby refinements and lexical scope
If you've never used Ruby's refinements, you might be surprised to learn that they're lexically scoped. We'll discuss what this means, and the implications for your code.
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By Starr Horne
- Oct 19, 2015
Multiple levels of subnavigation with Jekyll
In this post, we'll discuss how to separate an HTML document into logical sections based on heading tags. I'll all also show you a cool trick for rendering arbitrarily-deep subnavigation trees using Liquid templates.
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By Starr Horne
- Oct 13, 2015
Automatically generate subnavigation from H2s in Jekyll
Longer pages often benefit from subnavigation. In this post, we'll make a Jekyll plugin to dynamically generate subnavigation from H2 tags.
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By Starr Horne
- Oct 12, 2015
Monitoring for non-application errors on Heroku
When your service fails due to an exception in your application code (Ruby, Go, Elixir, etc...), Honeybadger alerts you. Unfortunately, application errors are only half the story. What happens when something goes wrong outside of your application code...
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By Joshua Wood
- Sep 21, 2015
