Fixtures and Factories: Balancing Trade-offs (Part 1)
ActiveRecord models are at the heart of many Rails applications, so having a fast and convenient way to create…
Getting Started with Kinesis
Amazon Redshift is a great tool for data warehousing. At Hired, we use it in combination with Looker to provide…
Hyphenated Routes in Rails
If you've ever looked at a blog post online, chances are the last thing you really paid any attention…
Hyphenated Routes in Rails
If you've ever looked at a blog post online, chances are the last thing you really paid any attention…
Writing Self-Documenting Code
Writing clear, understandable code for complex systems can be challenging. In this post, we'll explore the concept of self-documenting code…
Getting Started with Kinesis
Amazon Redshift is a great tool for data warehousing. At Hired, we use it in combination with Looker to provide…
Fixtures and Factories: Balancing Trade-offs (Part 1)
ActiveRecord models are at the heart of many Rails applications, so having a fast and convenient way to create…
What is the Purpose of a Hackathon? Ours Helped Us Get Work Done Faster
We finished our yearly hackathon recently and wanted to share what worked well, what we plan to change, and what…
Finally Trying ActionCable
Hired is a predominately Rails based application - the “majestic monolith” as DHH would call it. It’s five years…
Always Wrap Third-Party API Clients
Have you seen Ruby code like this? [crayon-5ceb1f3fcc153141734575/] And here are the tests: [crayon-5ceb1f3fcc15b279430217/] (This is adapted from a…
Deploying Hundreds of Thousands of SEO Pages with a Few Lines of Code in Rails
When I joined Hired about 3 years ago, we basically had a Home page, About page, and not much…
Scalable Features with Rails and Reactor
Ruby on Rails servers are a little infamous for having slow response times. It's not uncommon for a Rails…