Documenting architecture decisions, the Reverb way

Ever make a decision in your codebase and then come back 6 months later and have no recollection of why the code is the way it is? I certainly have.

PayPal Express Checkout Broken — Use Webscr Fallback

TLDR:
If your paypal checkout suddenly started to redirect to HP.com and teespring.com, the fix is to replace your checkout url from https://paypal.com/checkoutnow with https://www.paypal.com/webscr?cmd=_express-checkout

Is SCrypt slowing down your tests?

If you’re using SCrypt for hashing passwords, make sure you’re not using it in test with fabrication-based techniques. This could result in unnecessarily slow fabrication times.

Open-sourcing affirm-ruby

This past month Reverb partnered with Affirm to give our customers the flexibility to finance their purchases and buy their dream instrument. We’re now open sourcing our ruby API wrapper on Github, to hopefully make it even easier for others to do the same.

Find it here: affirm-ruby on Github