How do you format your ruby code across developers and projects? I confess, I'm in love with standardrb. I've used other formatting tools like the hound and rubocop, but standardrb is great because it takes all the choice away from…
How to run commands when starting up a Vagrant box Some of us at Culture Foundry run vagrant instances for development. This virtual machine lets you manage different environments or work in a unix environment if that is your wish.…
What are Progressive Web Apps, and why would you want to build one? I just read Progressive Web Apps, by Jason Grigsby. If you want an overflight of progressive web apps (PWAs), including a definition, what their capabilities are, and…
How can you allow a trusted third party to access a subset of your Route 53 hosted zones? DNS is fundamental to the internet and to the website and web applications that Culture Foundry builds. We prefer to use Route…
How one line in a script can save you hours of debugging agony. I recently ran into an issue with a CraftCMS plugin where the plugin worked locally but displayed bizarre behavior (404ing on a certain page) on our staging…
Setting up a continuous integration server can help you down the path of automated deployments, even if you don't have a comprehensive test suite. We use CircleCI for our continuous integration. We set this up even for projects that have…
How do you set the default DNS NS servers for a hosted zone in Route53 using Terraform? Sometimes you want to delegate DNS resolution for a subdomain. This happened recently for one of our clients because a third party provider…
Elasticsearch + Craft makes for a more flexible search experience. For one of our clients, we recently swapped out the default CraftCMS search functionality. We chose to do this because our site needed more flexibility. In particular different types of…
How can you create multiple database users with AWS MariaDB RDS? Not using "grant all", unfortunately. AWS RDS lets you run a database with minimal operational overhead. Backups, maintenance and operating system upgrades are all taken care of by the…
How do you run your migrations and clear your template cache on every deploy to fortrabbit? We've been pretty happy with Fortrabbit as a hosting service for CraftCMS. It has a nice git based workflow, where you can push to…