Postal ‑ our open source mail platform
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Seamless socket server restarts in Ruby
We utilise a variety of custom socket servers to support our applications. Most of our apps have at least one. We write RPC servers to interact with repository storage in...
Resizing your uploaded images
A couple of days ago I wrote about uploading attachments and in this tutorial I'm going to look at doing some processing on those attachments once they have been uploaded....
Uploading files in your Rails application
Uploading files into your Rails application has never been easier, and with the a wealth of useful gems around to help there's no better time to be working with files.
How to install Staytus from scratch
Staytus is the open source publishing platform that I developed last year when we needed something simple to help us communicate with our customers when issues arise with our service....
Running Ruby apps in production
Over the last few months, I’ve been working on a number of Ruby applications which have a requirement to run a few different types of process — web servers, workers, crons — in order...
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...
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...
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...
String Interpolation in Rails
A while ago I wrote a small library to handle string interpolation in a Rails application. The library allows you to safely allow users to insert variables into strings they...
Creating MOSS returns for HMRC with JSON
HMRC (the UK tax authority) have finally announced how UK businesses should submit details of their digital sales to other EU countries for their new VAT MOSS system. In my...
Merging Pull Requests on GitHub
Today I’m talking about the merge button on GitHub, why you shouldn’t use it and presenting an alternative which is cleaner & easier to use.