Introduction Continuous Integration/Delivery has gained widespread acceptance in the minds of developers, and has become an important aspect of the quick release cycles in the software industry. However, adopting continuous integration is not going to bring any benefits, if we don’t make sure that our build system can run in a CI environment with multiple […]
The upcoming platform update is scheduled for April 26th, 2016. Elixir receives an update with version 1.2.4.Erlang gets an update with version 18.3.
Continuous delivery is a broad set of software development practices designed to ensure that every change is rapidly deployable to production, while the system performs its business function uninterrupted and as intended. Continuous deployment is a particular instance of continuous delivery in which all source-code changes that pass an automated test suite are automatically deployed […]
At Semaphore, we’re dedicated to protecting the security of our users’ data and building solutions to improve it. With that in mind …
Introduction React has become an increasingly popular and widely-used JavaScript application tool for developing web applications. Popular frameworks like Angular.js, Ember.js, and Backbone have traditionally been go-to choices for front-end application development, but React came onto the scene in 2013 and provided front-end engineers with another substantial alternative. React was developed at Facebook in part […]
The upcoming platform update is scheduled for March 22nd, 2016.
Git gets an update with version 2.7.3.Java gets an update with version 8u74.
This tutorial is the fourth part of our series on test-driving an Ember.js application. Here’s a quick recap of our last tutorial. We first started building out our Ember application using a route plus a template. We then transitioned our work to a component, which is where we’ll start from in this tutorial. We weren’t […]
Following the changes in the latest iteration of the Bitbucket API, we have improved how Semaphore interacts with your Bitbucket repositories to make your continuous integration and deployment workflow better.
In the last tutorial in this series, we created an API using Rails 5 (which just went to Beta 1). In that tutorial, we mostly focused on the server, but we also considered what we were going to do with the Ember application we built in the first tutorial in the series. We recommend that […]
Introduction Mixins are a very powerful feature in Ruby, but knowing how to test them is sometimes not too obvious, especially to beginners. This stems from mixins’ nature – they get mixed into other classes. In this tutorial, we will revisit what mixins are, identify mixin types, and learn how we can test mixins with […]
The upcoming platform update is scheduled for February 23rd, 2016.Bundler gets updated to version 1.11.2.Cassandra is updated to version 2.2.5.
On this Sunday (February 14th, 2016) at 10am UTC, Semaphore will be unavailable due to planned maintenance which includes database migration as well.
Introduction Requests is one of the most downloaded and widely used Python libraries published on PyPI. Testing Requests, however, is something that most people attempt to avoid, or do only by using mocks and hand-written or hand-copied response data. VCRpy and Betamax are two libraries that avoid using mocks and hand-written or hand-copied data, and […]
Intro Integrating external services in web applications has been around for a long time now. We often use various OAuth providers such as Facebook, Twitter, GitHub and other alternatives for user signup, depending on our needs. Other times, things are more complicated. Maybe we are using Stripe or PayPal for online payments, or maybe we […]
The Semaphore dashboard is about to get a brand new look. The new design dramatically simplifies the layout, while improving performance under the hood.