The Adventures of Generating Random Numbers in Erlang and Elixir
While working in Elixir I needed to generate a random number and to my surprise could not find an easy way to do so without using Erlang (at first...
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How I Built My Own Heroku for Phoenix Apps: Part 2
Building upon the the first version of Gatling. We're adding functionality to handle event hooks for each action in the deployment process
Development of a Simple Command Line Websocket Client
While working on the Websocket Shootout, I frequently needed to connect to a websocket server and interact directly. None of the existing tools I...
Commit Lint for Danger
I love using Danger to automate routine Pull Request feedback and so I made a plugin that lints commit messages. It was an interesting process and...
Websocket Shootout: Clojure, C++, Elixir, Go, NodeJS, and Ruby
When a web application has a requirement for real time bidirectional communication, websockets are the natural choice. But what tools should be...
Tips and Tricks from Integrating React Native with Existing Mobile Apps
A lot of clients come to Hashrocket with an existing mobile app and they expect us to deliver new features as soon as possible. With an easy...
How I Built My Own Heroku for Phoenix Apps: Part 1
Walk through why and how I created Gatling- A deployment tool for Phoenix applications.
Debugging Action Callbacks (aka Filters) in Rails
Rails provides before and after actions in controllers as an easy way to call methods before or after executing controller actions as response to...
Mocking Requests in Elixir Tests
When writing code that relies heavily on the results of external API calls, we need to be thinking about how we're going to test how our...
Best of TIL Year One: Rails
Here are some of the top Rails posts from Today I Learned.