At Appaloosa, most of our tests are written with Rspec, but we still have a certain…
This post is part of a series of two posts about our migration from MongoDB to an AWS stack for our analytics feature. Head here to read the introduction post and know why we started this migration.
The other day, I was tasked with calling an external service when destroying a user. This kind of task is pretty straightforward in Rails, you call a method in a before_destroy callback on your model.
before_destroy
In Appaloosa’s search for continuous improvement, we decided a while back that it was about time to make big efforts to give our Android app and its 8k+ daily users the care they deserved.2016 was a major year for our Android native store: as the team got bigger, we…
As you may have already read in a previous post about our Sidekiq and Redis configurations, we rely on Mike Perham’s Sidekiq to process background jobs (called workers) for our Rails application…
At appaloosa.io, we believe that testing your code is very important, it ensures reliability and helps reducing the amount of bugs shipped in production.
Even if often left behind, testing your frontend (which is your first interface with your customers)…
