smathieu

There's no reason why you can't have Heroku to connect to a RDS instance or a DB you manage yourself. It's not has easy as using the Heroku way, but not very difficult either.

When I was an intern at a large fortune 500 company, in the first week, my manager had me schedule a 30 minute meeting with the 20 or so people I'd have to interact with during my internship. This was pretty awkward at first to walk up to people and ask 'can I interview you'?

Still, the benefits of this were huge. After the first week, I was aware of who everyone was, what their job was, what they studied and what they liked to do. It was a nice icebreaker that cut my onboarding time by a significant amount.

The browserstack website is currently down for me. Anyone else?

I'm the author of this post. Happy to answer any questions you might have :)

toe_tag is really cool. We've clearly have some code and catches an exception, look for a string the message and rethrows it when needed.

I'll use your gem next time I find myself doing that :)

Original gem author here!

We were scratching out own itch by doing this. This is currently used by several of our projects.

It does feel like the HTTP libraries should be better and handling these various exceptions. Since they don't, we've ended up writing this.

For the most part, whenever we do any HTTP call, we are expecting a specific return code and we want to raise an easy to handle exception when this happens. However, many HTTP call don't even get to the point where an error code is return when the network is not reliable. We've found that in most case, we want to handle that exception in the same way than an unexpected error code.

This little gem let us do that easily.

Enjoy :)

Another good thing about this is that if you have CI setup to work with Github, you can also run all of your test suite quickly and asynchronously for each commit.

I think the point was mostly that 'lol' or 'meh' is a completely useless comment. It's true that there's a lot of room for improvements in the given example. Still, they do provide some context to people who actually understand the application they are working on.

Does anyone know of good open source project that uses Git messages extremely well that we could use as an example?