How to build a search engine with Ruby on Rails: Introducing the Whereable design pattern

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How to build a search engine with Ruby on Rails: Introducing the Whereable design pattern

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How to build a search engine with Ruby on Rails: Introducing the Whereable design pattern

Implementing search in your Rails app can be vexing. Here's a great pattern to use that combines the best parts of ActiveRecord and Postgres.

Rails

Real-time stress: AnyCable, k6, WebSockets, and Yabeda

Introducing a k6 plugin to load test WebSockets and instrumenting the application under test with Yabeda, Prometheus and Grafana

How I keep my Rails controllers organized

Here are three tactics I use to keep my Rails controllers organized.

Rails 7 will have three great answers to JavaScript in 2021+

After much experimentation, I believe we now have a solid answer for Rails 7

Ruby

Testing Your Edge Cases

A little combination math goes a long way to catching edge cases.

The Future Shape of Ruby Objects

Today I want to share some existing ideas that TruffleRuby uses for how to implement objects in Ruby, that we think could be applied in MRI or other implementations of Ruby.

Blast from the past

Writing system software: code comments

Comments are rubber duck debugging on steroids, except you are not talking with a rubber duck, but with the future reader of the code, which is more intimidating than a rubber duck, and can use Twitter.