Speeding up Ruby MRI with Rust

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May 28 2019

Speeding up Ruby MRI with Rust

What is Ruby doing on Rails?

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Speeding up Ruby MRI with Rust

You could try very very hard to squeeze as much performance from your code as you can at the cost of abstractions. But at the end of the day, no matter how hard you try, you will wake up in the morning and Ruby will still be the same interpreted language.

Rails

Rails 6 adds if_not_exists option to create_table

Rails 6 adds if_not_exists option to create_table.

A Fixture-Based Approach to Interface Testing in Rails

A fixture-based approach to making tests understandable, and small tools we use to reach this goal.

Ruby

How to Play MP3 Files With Ruby, VLC & The FFI Module

FFI stands for "Foreign Function Interface". It's a Ruby module that allows you to use external libraries as if they were part of the language itself.

Ruby 2.7 adds Enumerable#filter_map

Ruby 2.7 adds Enumerable#filter_map which is a short hand for filter + map in a single call.

Beyond Ruby

Unlearning toxic behaviors in a code review culture

I’ve listed below some common unhelpful behaviors people display during code reviews, and some recommendations on how software teams can make their teams more supportive by refusing to normalize toxicity.

The Psychology of Pair Programming

Behaviours and skills exhibited by the very best pair programmers.

Blast from the past

Large Scale Payments Systems and Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails has some benefits which are focused on improving the development process, but in some cases make maintenance of production system more difficult. In terms of the way payments work, some of its shortcomings mean trouble.

Gem of the week