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Websocket Shootout: Clojure, C++, Elixir, Go, NodeJS, and Ruby
When a web application has a requirement for real time bidirectional communication, websockets are the natural choice. But what tools should be used to build a websocket server? Performance is important, but so is the development process. A perfor...
Top 8 tools for Ruby on Rails code optimization and cleanup
Keeping your code clean and organized while developing a large Rails application can be quite a challenge, even for an experienced developer. Fortunately, there is a whole category of gems that make this job much easier.
For most people, dead/ine...
Increase Your Rails Application Reporting Speed by 10x with Sunspot's Stored Values
In my previous post I introduced Solr and Sunspot along with a basic use case to get up and running with Rails. Here, I’ll dive in to what originally brought me to Sunspot, stored attributes. Wouldn’t it be great if you could dynamically generate ...
Making a Rails Health Check that doesn't hit the database
In a production application you usually have many servers, and each of those servers gets checked periodically to make sure they're still healthy and working as expected. When they are, requests can be routed at them by your load balancer. If a se...
How to Reduce Controller Bloat with Interactors in Ruby
Let's consider a hypothetical situation — You've been working on a Rails application for about a year. When the application was new and its functionality limited, you could add features relatively simply by spinning up a new controller, model and ...
Interview With Ruby on Rails Creator David Heinemeier Hansson
I've been all Mac since about 2002, I believe. I use a 5K iMac on my desk and a Macbook for travel. For editor, I'm on TextMate 2. I only just switched from TextMate 1.5 a few months ago when an OS X update broke something in it. That editor was ...
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