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Active Record Encrytion, several performance optimizations, and much MORE! | Riding Rails
Hi, zzak here! お久しぶりです! This time I will be recapping the past month or so of Rails. Hang on! There’s a ton of stuff to catch up on!!Active Record EncryptionOriginally extracted from HEY, this feature adds encrypted attributes to Active Record mod...

How and why to Dockerize your Rails app's database - Code with Jason
Getting a new developer set up with a Rails app (or any app) can be tedious. Part of the tedium is the chore of manually installing all the dependencies: Ruby, RVM, Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.It would be really nice if that developer could just...


A robust distributed locking algorithm based on Google Cloud Storage
Many workloads nowadays involve many systems that operate concurrently. This ranges from microservice fleets to workflow orchestration to CI/CD pipelines. Sometimes it's important to coordinate these systems so that concurrent operations don't ste...


Podcast 338: Why is it so hard to find Ruby developers? - Stack Overflow Blog
Today we chat with Ilya Bodner, Founder and CEO of Bold Penguin, a firm that builds exchange software for the commercial insurance market. He spoke about the pros and cons of choosing Ruby early on and deciding between building or buying your core...


