February 2010
5 posts
Hoptoad Notifier: Rack and automatic Metal support
If you’re not sending your application errors to our hosted service Hoptoad, take a few minutes and try it out for free today!
The newest version of the official Hoptoad Notifier, 2.2, was released to Gemcutter today, and brings with it support for Rack, automatic notification of exceptions occurring in Rails Metal endpoints, and some Rails 1.2.6 fixes.
Rack support
From the README:
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The More You Know: custom time descriptions
Fred asked if we could shorten the “about 1 month ago” text in an information-rich table that was squeezing the created_at data.
I’m not familiar with the i18n API beyond supporting internationalization in Clearance. Therefore, it took me mildly by surprise when I learned that you can override distance_in_words with the i18n API (and, by extension,...
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Recipe: Google Calendar
A recipe for accessing Google Calendar data from Ruby.
Why?
Google Calendar is a great interface for a few people to share management of events. You might have a client that has this need. Neither you nor the client want to spend time or money duplicating an ‘admin interface’ for managing events. You want to focus development time on displaying those events in a custom...
Issues with Hoptoad server move
Unfortunately, our Hoptoad server move did not go as planned today. We understand that your application may have been slowed because of the extended outage, and we sincerely apologize for the trouble that it caused.
If your application was adversely affected by the outage, please file a support request at http://help.hoptoadapp.com and we’ll give you a refund for all of last month’s...
Hoptoad scheduled downtime Wednesday February 10...
Hoptoad will have scheduled downtime on Wednesday February 10 at 3:00pm ET. We are aiming for a maximum of 1 hour of downtime, but expect the actual downtime to be 15 to 20 minutes.
We’re moving onto the Engine Yard Cloud so that we can improve Hoptoad performance and have greater flexibility in our architecture. After the move, we’ll be able to more easily isolate the error...