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Michiel Sikkes

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Forcing a Rails database migration

Today I accidentally ran migrations on a production environment that shouldn't run. Luckily, the table wasn't critical, but it did cause a feature of...

Measuring Monthly Active Users

Two weeks ago, we decided that we are going to focus all our efforts for our app Sporzer towards increasing the number of Monthly Active Users (MAUs).

Persistent storage for your Rails apps with Dokku and Docker

At Firmhouse, we're building Intercity Next. An open source hosting management panel for Ruby on Rails that hosts apps on servers of your choice.

Simple signup and login in your app (Part 2)

In my previous post, I showed you how to easily create a simple signup for your Rails app, without needing any external gems.

Basic signup in your Rails app with has_secure_password

The past week I've been working on a little web app that lets you post to a Twitter account as a group: http://samentweeten.nl.

Hybrid native apps are great for launching new mobile apps

At Firmhouse, we regularly build hybrid native apps when working on new mobile apps and Minimum Viable Products.

Instant cohorts and retention graphs for your Rails app

Knowing retention and churn is crucial to understanding whether you are doing the right things to get your product off the ground...

How I deploy a Rails app using Docker

Learn how to deploy a ruby on rails app that runs in a docker container.