Andrew Atkinson

This tip describes how to write a rake task in a gem, then use it in another Ruby gem or Rails app.

Ruby Tips

A nice usage of Ruby blocks in application code is to externalize some repeated code.

Ruby Tips Programming

This is my recommend list of Ruby gems for Rails apps.

Ruby Rails Tips Programming

I spent some time learning the Go programming language by working through some tutorials and building a small app. The book An Introduction To Programming in Go has 14 chapters and covers data structures, HTTP, command line apps, concurrency, and...

Go Programming

We are using delayed_job for background jobs and didn’t see a built-in option to send email notifications when a job failed. Since we were already using exception_notification to email application exceptions, we thought it would be nice to integrate that....

Ruby Rails Tools

A Ruby gem called safe provides a DSL for generating the commands to perform the backup. We used this fork which fixed some AWS issues.

Productivity PostgreSQL Databases Tips

I do software development on my Mac, mostly web application development with Ruby on Rails. Code is stored on either GitHub or BitBucket.

OS X Productivity Tips Tools Vim

The book The Startup Owner’s Manual [^book] has a lot of practical tips to increase the chances of success at your startup. Here are some notes from Chapters 4 and 5 from the book.

Lean Startup Books

For a new project I’ll be using PostgreSQL. I have more experience with MySQL so I wanted to quickly learn PostgreSQL and port over some of my skills.

MySQL PostgreSQL Productivity Databases

These are some useful Vim plugins I’ve tried out and recommend.

Tools Productivity Vim Tips