Sentry is great tool for monitoring Rails applications, we use it on Nettigo. But… when Raven, Sentry Ruby client starts it writes something like Raven ready to catch errors. It is a bit annoying. Every log file is full of this crap. There is no documentation of it, but if You look inside code, You …
Category Archives: Ruby
Email verification – regexp
Many times before when I was supposed to collect emails from users I was googling to find some regexp to verify email syntax. At least I was aware that regexp challenging email address syntax is a bullshit ;) I was working few years as Unix sysadmin mostly on mail servers, so I had some idea …
It’s time to say goodbye!
Well, last 6 years I was using Windows as a main OS for my home/developer computers. Partly it was not mine decision, since my employers required me to run Windows. But, since I’ve jumped out of regular 9to5 two years ago this was not true anymore. It was convenient for me to use Windows, and …
Rake and arguments for tasks
Rake is beautiful tool, helping automate many tasks using Ruby. When You want to pass some arguments You can add VAR=value on command line and then in task use ENV[‘VAR’] to access passed value. But it is not what You alway want. Sometimes You want more compact and clean way to pass arguments. Starting with …
Session store – don’t get trapped
I’ve recently stumbled upon some design flaw in Rails applications. It looks like it is much more popular than I thought… Session hash can store whole objects. Don’t do that. I’ve recently seen applications storing whole ActiveRecord objects in session. Why it is dumb idea? First – with new Rails default storage for session are …