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Comparing SQLite based Rails cache stores – Oldmoe's blog
If you are running a production Rails application using SQLite then you are probably using SQLite as a cache store as well. Compared to something like Redis or Memcached, SQLite offers a potentially much larger caching space and a significantly hi...
Set up a Rails Development Environment with Dev Containers
I will walk through the steps my team followed to set up a pretty nice Rails development environment using Docker and VS Code Dev ContainersI recently worked on rewriting a super old Rails app (Rails 2 Ruby 1.8.7). We felt a bit burned by the fa...
Once a Maintainer: Rafael França - by Allison Pike
The Rails Core member on new releases and balancing pushing the community forward with stabilityI guess I always wanted to be part of Rails Core, at least as soon as I knew what the Rails Core team actually was. But in reality, how it came to be i...
Olly Headey — Rails, Assets, ActiveStorage and a Cloudfront CDN
I’ve been building a number of apps using Rails recently and they run on servers that are, shall we say, not particularly optimal. I’m from Yorkshire and I live in Scotland so thriftiness is ingrained.In a standard Rails app, all the bundled asset...
Explaining Thruster, a new 37signals gem that speeds up your app - rubyonrails-talk - Ruby on Rails Discussions
Last month, 37Signals introduced Thruster 137, a “zero-config” gem that makes your web pages load faster by solving various problems that would otherwise require changes in multiple places in your infrastructure.This post explains what those probl...
Ruby might be faster than you think - John Hawthorn
Now it’s Ruby that’s 5 times faster than Crystal!!! And 20x faster than our original version. Though most likely that’s some cost from the FFI, or something similar, though that does seem like a surprising amount of overhead.I thought it was notab...
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