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One of our Rails applications has to consume an RSS. Nothing fancy here, we simply wanted to extract some fields from each item and store them in the PostgreSQL DB (app was hosted on heroku). Simply slicing the string seemed to work at first: summary...

This week we've updated nuntium to version 2.8, yay! Aside from some minor bug fixes, nuntium now implements an exponential backoff strategy when a message delivery fails. Previously, it worked like this: A message failed to be delivered. If the cause...

I'm currently in the process of upgrading an application from Rails 2 to Rails 3. Fortunately, it's not the first time someone does so, and there's plenty of resources throughout the web that will help you to work it out. In particular, I chose to...

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The last day in our old office was my Sweet Fridays turn - so I wanted the dessert to be special

One of the web applications we develop has support for multiple languages, and we got the request to have also the route names translated. As such, a user visiting the site in english and navigating to the stores page should be redirected to example...