It is always good to have your project code organised and decomposed into multiple files/folders. Certainly, nothing stops you from writing an entire application code within a single file. But that would prove to be a nightmare to read and maintain. Modern JS frameworks, like Express and others, provide powerful…

Thu, Jan 28, 2016 In our AngularJS project, we have a chat built with the ruby server and Faye pub/sub messaging system. The chat is pretty simple — users can only send text messages and files to each other. …

If second database config is isolated in a separate file the way it was described in a previous post, then to make this work on Heroku it is required to set the environment variable with url to the database you want to use as second one. …

During the last 6 months our team have written around 1.5k unit tests in jasmine for our angular application. That was an interesting experience and here are some notes that I made along the way and would like to share. Watch out for memory leaks If your tests leak memory, the browser will get slower…

Sources used: Setting up multiple databases in Rails: the definitive guide by Roberto Ostinelli Rails Multi-Database Best Practices Roundup by Ken Collins, CustomInk Using ActiveRecord with multiple databases by John Baker, Pivotal Labs. There are many different scenarios why you may want to have more than one database in your…