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How Fast Is Ruby 3 on Rails?

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How Fast Is Ruby 3 on Rails?

If you have been following along, the numbers in this post won't surprise you. But it's important to do the final measurement. If you haven't been following, this will bring you up to date.

Rails

Improving Performance with Russian Doll Caching

Improve the experience of your HOTWire app with Russian Doll Caching and API optimizations.

How ActiveRecord Uses Caching To Avoid Unnecessary Trips To The Database

ActiveRecord makes accessing your database easy, but it can also help make it faster by its intelligent use of caching. In this article, Jonathan Miles shows us the tricks that Rails uses to ensure that your database isn't doing more work than it needs to.

When to use Factory Bot's traits versus nested factories

When I wrote about nested factories in Factory Bot, I got a couple of questions to the effect of “why wouldn’t you use traits for that?” In responses to these questions, I’ll lay out my method for deciding when to use traits versus nested factories.

Ruby

An Unusual Performance Optimization

How wondering about an odd benchmark result led to better performance.

IRB’s Built-in Measure

IRB’s new measure command is a quick and easy way to measure different snippets from an IRB console.

Custom Static Analysis Rules Showdown: Brakeman vs. Semgrep

In this post we discuss the experience of using Semgrep and Brakeman to create the same custom rule within each tool for a client’s Ruby on Rails assessment our team was assessing.

Beyond Ruby

Fulfilling the promise of CI/CD

When people say “CI/CD,” they are only talking about continuous integration. Nobody is talking about (or practicing) continuous deployment. AT ALL. It’s like we have all forgotten it exists. It's time to change that.