Unicorn vs. Puma vs. Passenger: which app server is right for you?

The Ruby app server ecosystem has consolidated around three app servers in 2017: Unicorn, Puma, and Passenger 5. What specific problems must an app server solve for Ruby? How do you pick the right app server?

Handling request cache in Ruby

Handling HTTP cache is one of the most important aspects when you need to scale a web application. If well used, it can be your best friend; but when badly used, it may be you worst enemy.

Reading Ruby Code: ROM - orientation

This is the second part of my on-going series on code reading

The Lego Way of Structuring Rails Code

Two years ago I had an interesting challenge: explain to a junior developer why he should prefer interactor pattern instead of Rails Active Record Callbacks.

Grab your brushes! Decorators we shall become

The term decorator seems to have taken a wrong turn at some point on its journey to peoples projects in the rails community, and while this isn't true of all implementations, it certainly is for some of the most popular ones.

Rails lessons learned: Fat Controllers and Obese Models

So it’s been nearly a year since my rant on rails. In this year I’ve been working on a rather large rails application, trying to help the team tame this 100Ks LOC monolith.

Refactoring Slow and Steady

I’m a big fan of “radical refactoring.” I’ve refactored several code bases until there was almost nothing left of the original code. But it was done steadily, only doing major rewrites to individual pieces after painstakingly detangling them from the rest of the code

How Google builds web frameworks

It’s public knowledge that Google uses a single repository to share code — all 2 billion lines of it — and that it uses the trunk-based development paradigm.

Why Ruby?

I've been a Microsoft developer for decades now. I weaned myself on various flavors of home computer Microsoft Basic, and I got my first paid programming gigs in Microsoft FoxPro, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Visual Basic. I have seen the future of programming, my friends, and it is terrible CRUD apps running on Wintel boxes!

Pronto

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