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Sending Webhooks with Exponential Backoff

#255 · Jul 26, 2018 Pro

Sending Webhooks in Rails is easy, but what happens when the request fails? You'll need to implement retries and exponential backoff so you don't DoS their service

Adding Exceptions To Recurring Events

#160 · Dec 05, 2016 Pro

See how to add exceptions to recurring events with the ice_cube gem

How to use AMP with Ruby on Rails

#306 · Aug 08, 2019 Pro

Learn how to add support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) from Google to Ruby on Rails in this tutorial

Stripe Signed Webhooks

#259 · Aug 22, 2018

Stripe webhooks are now required to be signed with your secret webhook key. We'll show you how to set them up in your Rails app today.

Testing Emails in Development with Mailcatcher

#203 · Aug 21, 2017

Learn how to send emails to a local SMTP server called Mailcatcher for testing and designing emails

Reddit style comment thread pagination

#266 · Oct 08, 2018 Pro

Adding pagination to our nested comment threads is easier than you might think, plus we'll take a look at a couple different approaches we can use

Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) with Rails

#275 · Dec 12, 2018 Pro

Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) allows your website to talk to other websites.

Inbound SMS in Rails with Twilio

#303 · Jul 08, 2019 Pro

Receiving inbound SMS in Rails with Twilio is very similar to handling inbound emails with Action Mailbox

Testing External APIs with VCR

#318 · Oct 29, 2019 Pro

Testing integrations with external APIs in your Rails app can be hard. You don't know what requests are being made (or even the responses), so how can you properly mock them out? VCR to the rescue.

Testing API Integrations with WebMock

#317 · Oct 23, 2019 Pro