PStore, a little known feature in the standard library

PStore is a Standard library in Ruby that implements a Hash like mechanism for a key-value store.It supports thread-safe and uses Marshal internally.

Extending git with Ruby

There are two built in ways for extending git: git hooks and git commands. We can use these to improve our workflow by automating any repetitive steps

Sharing models between Rails apps – Keeping Rails engine migrations in the engine

The concept of shared models is really well described by Fabio Akita. However, his approach towards migrations comes from his really specific use-case.

Simple tips to make scaling your database easier as you grow

When you're working on a young project you're constantly making decisions that will make it either easier or harder to scale later. Sometimes it's good to pick the short-term gain, to accrue a bit of technical debt so you can ship faster. But other times we pick up technical debt because we didn't know there was an alternative. 

Service Objects in Ruby on Rails…and you

We have all been there when you see your controller action getting way too long and hold too much business logic. You know you need to email the user, adjust an account, maybe submit to Stripe and finally ping a Slack Webhook

How we got our 2-year-old repo trending on GitHub in just 48 hours

Github has made it easy for millions of developers to publicize their projects so they can attract users and collaborators. But these developers often find themselves spending hundreds of hours building a project, only to push it to GitHub and earn a mere one or two stars.

Dataloss at GitLab

GitLab, thanks for using PostgreSQL 9.6 and its replication and backup facilities. Thank you for posting this publicly to allow us to comment on this for your postmortem analysis.

The Duct Tape Programmer

Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect. He is the kind of programmer who is hard at work building the future, and making useful things so that people can do stuff. He is the guy you want on your team building go-carts, because he has two favorite tools: duct tape and WD-40.

rspec-benchmark

Performance testing matchers for RSpec