Clean your configuration with configuration_manager

If you’re spreading constants around your environments files to configure your Rails apps based on the environment it is running on, stop immediately! Let’s say it’s not very wise… ;) There’s no point in having lots of different constants all around your code that basically all do the same thing: configure your app.

Instead, you should do [...]

Speeding up email delivery on Rails

There’s one thing that has always bugged me: when using Sendmail to deliver email from Action Mailer in Ruby on Rails, it always takes a few seconds for the email to be sent, thus slowing down whatever task the user is trying to accomplish. When, for example, a user signs up for your service, you might [...]