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Introducing the Zapier beta | AppSignal

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Introducing the Zapier beta. Feb 17, 2015. Connect AppSignal with more than 300 different applications through Zapier.com. Makes it easy to connect applications and move data between them and is now in beta for AppSignal. In order to use zapier we need to invite you to our beta program on zapier.com. If you’d like to try it out, contact us on contact@appsignal.com. Right now we support the following events:. Gem 20 released 🎉. Rescuing Exceptions in Ruby: A Primer. Rebasing a complex branch in Git.

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Introducing the JIRA beta | AppSignal

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Introducing the JIRA beta. Apr 2, 2015. Staying true to our tradition to add third party integrations regularly and basing priorities on customer demand, you can now manage AppSignal errors and performance issues in JIRA. By Atlassian is a tracker for teams that plan and build products. It’s available as a self-hosted and cloud hosted solution. You can now create JIRA issues in the latter, directly from AppSignal. Besides the new JIRA integration, we already provide native support. Gem 20 released 🎉.

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Custom notifications with Zapier | AppSignal

http://blog.appsignal.com/blog/2015/07/22/custom-notifications-with-zapier.html

Custom notifications with Zapier. Jul 22, 2015. Recently one of our customers asked if it was possible to send errors to different email addresses based on where the error happened in their application. We can do that with our Zapier integration! Lets consider the following scenario:. We want to notify our “backend” team when an error occurs in one of the API controllers. We can use the AppSignal Zapier. Integration to enable this. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. X000A; before filter. X000A; def. Channel, send a push no...

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GitLab integration | AppSignal

http://blog.appsignal.com/blog/2015/01/20/gitlab-integration.html

Jan 20, 2015. In the past few months we’ve released several AppSignal integrations with 3rd parties such as Pivotal Tracker, Trello and Slack. And we’re happy to announce that GitLab. Has been added to this list. We support both gitlab.com and custom GitLab installations, provided their API is accessible through the internet. Once activated, you can send detailed exception and performance reports to GitLab as an issue. All application backtrace lines and deploys will link to GitLab. Gem 20 released 🎉.

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Automated screenshots using Capybara and Selenium | AppSignal

http://blog.appsignal.com/blog/2015/07/21/automated-screenshots-using-capybara.html

Automated screenshots using Capybara and Selenium. Jul 21, 2015. Last week’s AppSignal update included an updated interface design for every screen. This meant we had to update all screenshots on our homepage, to make sure they reflect the current state of the app. To reduce the vast amount of manual labor this takes, we decided to automate the process. 1 2 3 4 5 6. X000A; Capybara. After some searching, we found a solution to the problem in this Gist. X000A;by chrism. Using this nifty hack we let ...

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Gem version 0.11 | AppSignal

http://blog.appsignal.com/blog/2014/11/17/gem-version-011.html

Gem version 0.11. Nov 17, 2014. We released version of 0.11 the gem today which includes the following improvements:. Improved inter process communication to support Resque in pool mode. Retry sending monitoring data when the push api is not reachable. Our own event handling to allow for more flexibility and reliability when using a threaded environment. This release marks the end of our beta program for Resque, it’s now officially supported if you use 0.11 or up. See the docs. X000A;for more information.

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Gem version 0.9 | AppSignal

http://blog.appsignal.com/blog/2014/06/27/gem-version-09.html

Gem version 0.9. Jun 27, 2014. We released version of 0.9 of the gem today with the following improvements:. It’s now possible to override the revision in Capistrano deploy notifications by using. Set :appsignal revision, revision. We’ve refactored the way we use Thread.local to make it easier to use AppSignal in tasks and processes outside of a web app. Requests in your code are now automatically instrumented. And last but not least, deploy notifications in Capistrano 3 now work out of the box!

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Handling VAT with Stripe | AppSignal

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Handling VAT with Stripe. Aug 28, 2014. Are you a European company offering subscription based services, while using Stripe to handle payments? Right… VAT. Here’s how we fixed it. A disadvantage of being based in Europe is having to comply with EU VAT regulations. It basically boils down to:. Your customer is based in the same country as you: charge your local VAT tariff. Your customer is based in another EU country than you and has a valid VAT number: don’t charge VAT. 1 2 3 4&#x000...X000A; attr reader.

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Five Signs to Recognize a Future Customer | AppSignal

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Five Signs to Recognize a Future Customer. Aug 14, 2015. Like many services, we offer a 30 day free trial. A credit card is only needed after the trial ends, but we generally know within a week who will become a paying customer. Here’s what we’ve learned about recognizing a future customer. 1: Not using @outlook.com. At AppSignal, customers can also log in using their GitHub account. Those convert even better than company email addresses, probably because the link to GH adds some extra functionality.