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Pivotal Tracker API – new version (V3) to be released on Jan. 23
We’re planning a Pivotal Tracker upgrade on Jan 23. As part of this release, we will be introducing a new API version (V3), which will make it easier to follow project activity, allow you to add file...
View ArticleAPI Cake
A made up conversation with myself:Let's say I have a cool service. Now I want someone to take my cool service and develop against it. So I make an API. I'm using RESTful methods in RoR so it's pretty...
View ArticleWrite Once, Run Anywhere
In response to some recent web browser related debates: http://sachin.posterous.com/the-web-sucks http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/joe-hewitt-web-development/...
View ArticlePresenters and Logical APIs
MVC in Rails and Thick ViewsThe default way of using ActionController and ERB in Rails is to pass models into your views, and let the views figure out what to render and where. There's been some...
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New in Tracker: Story assignment notification, API additions
We’ve added a new email notification to Pivotal Tracker which will let you know when someone assigns a story to you. There are also a few new additions to the API, related to projects and...
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Apigee Pivotal Tracker API Console
Apigee, a company that helps you use and develop APIs, just announced a number of new API consoles, including for Pivotal Tracker. The Pivotal Tracker API Console allows you to explore the API from...
View ArticlePivotal Tracker API V2 To Be Removed on Jan 27
We're working on a new version of the Pivotal Tracker developer API, with a long list of improvements. The release of this is a few months away, but to prepare for it, we're removing the old version...
View ArticleFeature hydra: how many heads does your product have?
Should a web and iOS project have one or two tracks/teams/IPMs? I posted that question to our internal Q&A forum a few months ago. We were kicking off a client on a large project, building...
View ArticleStop leaky APIs
There are many blogs about how to expose an API for a Rails application and many times I look at this and am concerned about how these examples often leak the application design and the schema out...
View ArticleDesigning an API in Hell
Minitest, Ruby’s built-in testing library, has some great out-of-the-box features. One of these is test parallelization. Parallel testing is often added after a suite gets slow enough to hurt. That can...
View ArticlePlaying with Ember.js and Devise
I have been playing with Ember in and out since the beginning of 2012, you may have seen my two (obsolete?) libraries ember-facebook and ember-formbuilder. I wrote them out of real needs I had on...
View ArticleAPI Versioning
How to version an API has been a thoroughly discussed topic in the last several years regardless of protocol or approach, be that SOAP, REST or Hypermedia. Why contribute another post to the topic? My...
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New Pivotal Tracker API Now in Public Beta
The new Pivotal Tracker developer API (V5) is now open to everyone! It’s completely new, all-JSON, much more comprehensive, and full of goodies. Keep reading for highlights and an example to get...
View ArticleHave you tested your tests lately?
Summary: If you are using the rspec_api_documentation gem to test and document your API, you can use this code to test that you have a spec for each of your routes. Check out the gist here:...
View ArticleAPI Simulator
Regardless of the platforms Xtreme Labs works with, the majority of mobile applications will interact with servers through API calls. More often than not, these APIs are not designed in-house. They’re...
View ArticleUsing Pivotal Tracker to Help Manage API Development
Pivotal Tracker is a web-based task management system used by Xtreme Labs engineers as part of our agile development process. This blog gives an example of a common situation where Pivotal Tracker can...
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