Blogs


8 alternative Ruby frameworks. Other alternatives for developing.
We are experts not only in Ruby. But Ruby is in the list of our priorities. And we can assure you that there are many other options out there for Ruby developers, that aren’t Rails. Let’s explore 8 alternative Ruby frameworks! How many of them do ...

A 15-year-old’s Journey from Scratch Programming to a “Super-Creator”
Now 15 years old, Yuki Mihashi has been playing with computers since the age of 7. Ever since her encounter with Scratch, a visual programming language developed at MIT, she has immersed herself in the world of code. In the spring of 2018, she sta...

Benchmarking Hongli Lai's New Patch for Ruby Memory Savings
Recently, Hongli Lai of Phusion Passenger fame, has been looking at how to reduce CRuby’s memory usage without going straight to jemalloc. I think that’s an admirable goal - especially since you can often combine different fixes with good results....

Cables vs. malloc_trim, or yet another Ruby memory usage benchmark
Memory usage has always been one of the most discussed performance-related topics in the Ruby community.Last week it got even more attention after Hongli Lai published his excellent "What causes Ruby memory bloat?" post.The author has proposed a v...




Getting Up And Running On Rails With RSpec and Capybara
Writing tests for application code is something that all programmers ought to be familiar with doing, regardless of language or framework of choice. RSpec is an incredible testing suite and DSL (Domain-Specific Language) built in Ruby, which allow...