In this tutorial, I will show you how to build and deploy a Jekyll static site to AWS S3 + Cloudfront using GitHub Actions. At PagerTree we use GitHub Actions to automate the building and deploying of our marketing site pagertree.com.

Today, we are excited to announce PagerTree now officially supports maintenance windows! Long overdue (technically from our 2019 roadmap), with maintenance windows it’s now easier than ever to suppress alerts from integrations during specific time periods.

Maintenance Windows are available on our Pro and Elite pricing plans. If you don’t already have an account, sign up for a free-trial now.

Rails 7 has introduced Active Record Encryption, functionality to transparently encrypt and decrypt data before storing it in the database. This is awesome news for any developer who has ever had to encrypt data before storing it.

Now arriving in Rails 7: Active Record Encryption, created by @jorgemanru. Designed for, and extracted from, @heyhey email. https://t.co/PMW0ROojX1

— Jeremy Daer (@bitsweat) April 1, 2021

In this guide, I will walk you through an example to migrate from away from using attr_encrypted gem to the new Rails 7 Active Record encrypts. We will do this using strong migrations and also maintain the ability to perform a database rollback without data loss.

Today, we are excited to announce PagerTree now officially supports schedule rotations! A long awaited feature and requested by many customers, with schedule rotations it’s now easier than ever to schedule a list (or “rotation”) of people for full coverage support.

Today I am excited to announce we have officially shipped PagerTree 4.0!

Here are the highlights:

1. Reduced Pricing - Elite pricing has been reduced from $20 to $15.
2. Better UI - Both desktop and mobile, your eyes (and mine) can be relieved.
3. Better Docs - New docs (with improved search) that are more clear and concise than before. https://pagertree.com/docs/
4. Multiple Accounts Per User - Users can now be a part of multiple accounts.
5. 2FA - Two Factor Authentication will keep your account safer.

Today, we are excited to announce a new integration - PagerTree Forms!

PagerTree Forms are simple (PagerTree hosted) forms that can be made public so your customers can quickly create an alert outside the PagerTree ecosystem.

PagerTree Forms also support custom CNAMES so you can host them on your own domain (ex: https://support.example.com). The CNAME option is secured via HTTPS using self signed Let’s Encrypt certificates.

Today, we are excited to announce PagerTree now officially supports Live Call Routing! With Live Call Routing you can route incoming phone calls to the right person using your existing on-call schedules and escalation policies.

In this post, I will walk you through creating a simple Prometheus monitoring stack, connecting it to Grafana for pretty dashboards, and finally configuring alerts via PagerTree.

If you would like a video to follow along instead, you can see it on YouTube. You can find all the code for this stack on Github.

Today, we are excited to announce PagerTree has added support for public calendars! Public calendars allow you to share a team’s on-call calendar with the rest of the world.

Today I want to show you how to build a polymorphic select box in Ruby on Rails. Seems trivial, but it’s not. Let me show you the way and save you some time.