Documentation Engine for Rails
A couple of months ago, I wrote a Rails engine which provides applications with complete documentation library functionality by simply adding a gem.
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Adam is the Head of Software at Krystal. Adam looks after our software engineering team by day and, when not doing that, enjoys hobbies including LEGO, collecting playing cards, building mechanical keyboards and home automation.
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Encrypting & signing stuff in Ruby
Securing your communications between parts of your infrastructure has never been more important. For encryption, in most cases, you can rely on normal SSL on HTTP connections (HTTPS) however what...
How to deal with unhappy customers
I've had experiences with unhappy customers and I'd wager that anyone in the customer's firing line has been there too.
Export your databases
It's important to keep backups of any data which you upload to Viaduct (or, indeed, any hosting provider). We've just added a new Database Export feature which allows you to...
Gulp & Rails
I’ve recently started using Gulp rather than the built-in asset pipeline in Rails. Gulp provides a fair amount of additional flexibility and functionality which I am very much enjoying.
Apple Push Notifications using HTTP
I’ve recently been working on developing an iOS application for Sirportly — a helpdesk product which we run & develop at aTech. As part of this application, it became necessary for...
Set the top border colour of a UINavBar
I’ve recently started developing iOS applications and on my journey of discovery I have discovered a number of useful little gems of information which I wanted to share.
Access application consoles with SSH
Hot on the heels of the support for accessing remote databases & processes remotely, we now have released new functionality to allow you to SSH directly to your console without...
Announcing Sirportly v5
What happened to v3?
Direct access to processes & databases
Your Viaduct environment is usually safely ensconced on our private network and inaccessible from the outside world. However, there are times when you need direct access to certain components of...
Git submodules now available
Git users can now take advantage of submodules in their repositories. Until now, submodules could not be deployed using Viaduct.
Sexy console colours
The Viaduct logging interface was improved a couple of weeks ago to make it even easier to see exactly what your processes are saying to you.