In my last article, I showed you how to move a Rails development environment to Docker (and Docker Compose). This time, I want to expand on that and discuss some improvements regarding testing your Rails application. Running your basic test suite is done quite easily. With the configuration from my last post, you can simply […]

As we prepare our new Docker-based infrastructure for running your tests, we’d like to show you how you can use the same environment for development as well. Feel free to follow along as I demonstrate how to move a simple Rails applications into Docker during development. Suppose we have a (very) simple new Rails application: […]

We recently shipped the new design for the Codeship Documentation. Apart from bringing it in line with the new design of our website, we had a few other goals with this redesign. Our main goal was to make sure you don’t spend much time on there. Search, find what you are looking for and get […]

At Codeship we are quite heavy users of Rollbar, a fantastic service that “collects and analyzes errors on web and mobile apps so you can find and fix them faster”. They also provide you with an API to track deployments of your application. This allows you to gain more insight into your deployments, without you […]

At Codeship we run immutable servers which we internally call Checkbot. These are the machines responsible for running your tests, deploying your software and reporting the results back to our web application. Of course, there are constant changes to the setup of these images. New software needs to be installed, packages upgraded, old software versions […]