Development Notes

Payments

We use Stripe Connect for handling payments and user transactions on ImageHex.

• Stripe
• Stripe Connect
• Stripe API Reference
• Stripe API Changelog
• Stripe Ruby Gem
• Stripe Connect Standalone Accounts - Stripe Documentation
• Deferred Account Activation - Stripe Documentation, this allows us to create Stripe accounts for users that don’t have to be activated right away.
• Using Stripe Connect in Ruby on Rails - Muno Creative
• Omniauth Stripe Connect Gem

Caching

• Caching with Rails - Rails Guides
• Caching Strategies for Rails - Heroku
• Take Control of Your HTTP Caching in Rails - Thoughtbot

Security

This section tries to list some tools for testing to ensure that our users are as secure as possible. Try to keep this as up-to-date as possible.

• Ruby on Rails Security Guide - Rails Guides
• TestSSL.sh - On OS X you can run brew install testssl to install and then testssl.sh www.imagehex.com to test the site. This tests for a number of vulnerabilities.
• SSL Labs Test - might just be a wrapper for the above, albeit with a letter grade.
• The Chrome DevTools include a Security Panel for inspecting the HTTPS connection to the current website.
• Set up CloudFlare SSL free on Heroku - Thoughtbot
• Brakeman - A static analysis security vulnerability scanner for Ruby on Rails applications, always run brakeman before deploying to make sure you're not introducing any vulnerabilities to the application.

i18n

• Rails Internationalization (I18n) API - Rails Guides
• Introduction to Conditional HTTP Caching with Rails - Thoughtbot
• Pluralizing I18n Translations in Your Rails Application - Thoughtbot
• Foolproof I18n Setup in Rails - Thoughtbot

Emails

• Action Mailer Basics - Rails Guides
• Griddler by Thoughtbot
• SendGrid
• Mandrill

Icons

• A more efficient and organized workflow for SVGs - Thoughtbot

Accessibility

• Accesslint.js by Thoughtbot

Testing

• Capybara WebKit by Thoughtbot - Front-end testing!
• Rspec and Rails Cheatsheet - A cheatsheet for Capybara/RSpec/Rails.

Hosting

Heroku

• Heroku Dev Center

CloudFlare

• CloudFlare Blog

AWS

• AWS Official Blog
• 5 AWS Mistakes You Should Avoid and companion Hacker News post

Docker

• Docker Jumpstart - A quick introduction to Docker
• Dokku - A Docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications.