Blogs

The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 521: Euruko with Muhamed Isabegovic
EuRuKo (European Ruby Konferenz) is the largest and longest running annual Ruby conference in Europe, since 2003, that brings you all the good news about Ruby and its friends. Every year it takes place in a different European city, the location be...

Ruby on Rails — Rails 7.2: Better production defaults, Dev containers, new guides design, and more!
Rails 7.2 comes with better productions defaults to help you build more efficient applications.Starting with YJIT. YJIT is Ruby’s JIT compiler that is available in CRuby since Ruby 3.1. It can provide significant performance improvements for Rails...


The Hidden Costs of 'Cheap' Software Agencies: When Low Hourly Rates Lead to Sky-High Bills
Picture this: You're a US company with a simple task - updating the UX and styling of a few pages on your website. You hire an external agency that boasts competitive rates ranging from $30 to $50 per hour. Sounds like a bargain, right? But hold o...

The Cost of Ignorance: How Unfit Leaders are Derailing Your Software Company
The hidden saboteurs within software companies - inept CTOs, project managers, and other leaders - pose a significant threat to the success and financial health of these organizations. By recognizing the tactics used by these individuals to mainta...


How to review code effectively: A GitHub staff engineer’s philosophy - The GitHub Blog
As a staff engineer at GitHub, code review is one of my main focus areas in my day to day work. Over the past eight years, I’ve reviewed more than 7,000 pull requests. Why so many? Because code review is crucial to building good software and anoth...

Mastering Ruby Code Navigation: Major Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024 | Rails at Scale
In the first half of 2024, Ruby LSP has seen significant enhancements, particularly in the area of code navigation, thanks to the advancement of its indexer.In this post, we’ll dive into the major code navigation enhancements that have been made t...
