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Jeroen van Baarsen

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Deploy early and often

At Firmhouse we love small pull requests, they help with getting your code reviewed quicker but also with feeling less anxiety when you deploy your code.

Automate office presence with Raspberry Pi

We at Firmhouse are a Remote company, but we do have an office in Rotterdam. Since there are a couple of tasks that need to happen...

Integrate Brakeman in your workflow

A while ago I wrote an article about integrating Rubocop into your workflow. Now that we are checking for code style, it is time to improve the workflow...

Announcing s3bucketpolicy.com

Because S3 is awesome but the policies are awful, we created a small tool for you!

Setting up an S3 bucket for your uploads/assets

In the past few weeks, we at Firmhouse are starting to make all our apps 12factor compliant. One thing that we needed...

Deploy your code to Dokku with Codeship

Learn how to deploy your code to dokku with codeship.

Run migrations on Dokku/Heroku deployment

We at Firmhouse are currently moving our projects over to a new version of Intercity, which is using Dokku as its backend. Dokku is a "Docker powered...

Schedule recurring jobs with Sidekiq 4

Something I keep getting back to is setting up scheduled recurring jobs with Sidekiq, even though some people say it's not the tool for the job...

Use git blame more efficiently

Everyone has been there, that piece of code of which you think:“Wow, what a piece of crazy code, the person who wrote that should be ashamed of themselves.”

Make sure Redis is secure

A little while ago, I read a post about the insecurity of Redis. It was mainly about the fact that most Redis installation or totally open...

Integrate Rubocop in your workflow

Rubocop is a tool that helps you to check and enforce your style guide for your Ruby code. It does this using static analysis.

How I build a Docker image for my Rails app

You have probably heard of the new cool kid in town, Docker. The problem with the fact that it is a new kid is that the documentation...