Tutorials
How to Measure Ruby App Performance with New Relic
New Relic is a great tool for getting the overview of the performance bottlenecks of a Ruby application. But it's pretty extensive - where do you start?It’s 12pm on a Monday. Your boss walks by: “The site feels…slow. I don’t know, it just does.” H...
Malloc Can Double Multi-threaded Ruby Program Memory Usage
It’s not every day that a simple configuration change can completely solve a problem.I had a client whose Sidekiq processes were using a lot of memory - about a gigabyte each. They would start at about 300MB each, then slowly grow over the course ...
Rails API with a frontend built in React, Part I.
When I was learning react I was kind of disappointed because I could not get a good tutorial on how to integrate rails with react. The only ones I found were using everything inside of rails(building a regular based rails app with webpacker and re...
Let's Build with Ruby on Rails: Extending Devise Series – Confirmation Emails
Continuing my Let’s Build with Ruby on Rails – Extending Devise series I take a look at adding confirmation emails to a given Ruby on Rails application.Download the source codeDownload the Kickoff Tailwind Template I reference in this tutorial (op...