Andrew Atkinson

“This Week in Rails” is a weekly newsletter, started by Godfrey Chan, that covers a week’s worth of interesting changes to the Ruby on Rails framework.

Ruby Rails Open Source

In a past job we used delayed_job to process background jobs. Delayed Job Web is a UI for Delayed Job. We need help finding a new maintainer for Delayed Job Web!

Ruby Open Source

Password managers have been around for a while, but I’ve been skeptical about using them and was turned off to the recurring billing model (more on that later).

Tips Tools Productivity

For a recent project, we wanted to efficiently present a week’s worth of data grouped by day, where each row represented the summary of an hour of activity.

PostgreSQL SQL Tips Databases

These are 5 great OS X apps I use almost every day. Give them a shot. If you find they are useful for you, send the app developers a “thank you” and consider giving them a donation!

Productivity OS X Tools Tips

At work we collect IRS W9 forms from our independent contractor partners each year. This year we wanted to automate the process of collecting the information, by allowing the contractors to supply their information through their existing app.

Programming Productivity Ruby

With git commands and bash scripting we can clean up old branches quickly.

Programming Productivity Tips Scripts

At OrderUp we rely on voice calls and SMS messages to communicate quickly with customers and team members. SMS messaging means that we don’t need to know the specific platform or capabilities (iOS or Android) of the recipient device. It...

Programming Ruby

Doug Williams and Joe Bondi from RunKeeper gave a technical talk at the WeWork Boston South Station location in December 2014, as part of the Stack Dive series. The talk explored the technical stack that supports the app and web...

Programming Productivity Events

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

Ruby Tips