Achieving Product Market Fit (PMF) is one of the huge goals of an early stage startup. There have been countless posts written on this subject and I'd highly recommend spending some time reading them if you're at this stage of your startup. One of the tools of the trade for testing different theories in your product is A/B Testing. Today we're going to look at how we A/B test different changes in the Revaluate Rails application. Tools of the Trade The main tool we are using currently is the easy to use Split Gem by Andrew Nesbitt. The…
So you're using Capistrano to deploy your Rails application and now you also want to deploy updates to your worker server running Sidekiq. There are a few things that need to be set up and a couple things to watch out for when getting this set up. The Setup Note: This setup assumes you're already deploying your Rails application using Capistrano. If not check out this great tutorial to get started. Now that you have your Rails app deploying with Capistrano it's time to get the code updates pushed to your sidekiq worker server. First add capistrano-sidekiq to your Gemfile:…