If Ruby Threads are used for parallel processing, Active Record connections need to be manually pruned as to not overload a database.

What exactly are websockets? How do they work? In this post we're going to answer these questions by building a simple WebSocket server from scratch in Ruby.

There are many many ways to evaluate any ruby code at runtime. Let’s look at them.

Rails 5 has added some nice enhancements to Active Support. This blog will go over some of those changes.

Recently we started experiencing random spec failures in one of our customer’s project. When the test was run in an isolation, everything was fine. The problem appeared only when some of the specs were run before the failing spec.

Last year I did a mistake: I left an open vulnerability in a client's project. Fortunately it was a short lived project with no reported breaches.

When solving requirements for a system, you should extract specific roles out into service objects. The lazy path is to solve problems directly where you encounter them such as in the controller, model or view.

Ryan Jacobs writes about the dreaded question every developer expects to hear, “So how much would a web application like this cost?”

I want to understand what resulted in me having the values I have right now. And, ultimately, how did I come to change my attitude against developing using Ruby on Rails, which I will explore in later posts.

pghero is the missing dashboard for Postgres which is battle tested on instacard. Provides information of your postgreSQL setup.