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What is Ruby doing on Rails?

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How We Made Our Maps 10x Faster

Using Datadog to optimize ActiveRecord performance.

Rails

Deploying Rails to the GCP AppEngine

Now, I'm not going to lie - the vast majority of this was an utter pain in the arse.

Implement Passwordless Authentication via Magic Link in Rails API

This article explains how to achievie Passwordless Authentication using a Magic Link.

Ruby

Understanding How Rbenv, RubyGems And Bundler Work Together

Rbenv, RubyGems, and Bundler work together to give us a lot of control over our code's environment. If you know how they work, you'll be better prepared to troubleshoot any problems you encounter.

Ruby Together

Ruby API received an exciting update recently: the core Ruby type signatures are being imported into the app. Eventually the type signatures will be able to be parsed directly in Ruby API.

Blast from the past

The Problem with Paydown - and your team's happiness

Your credit card debt is out. of. control. What do you do? Budget paydown! In software development, we try to apply that same idea of budgeting paydown to technical debt in our applications.

Commit Often, Perfect Later, Publish Once—Git Best Practices

Best Practices vary from environment to environment, and there is no One True Answer, but still, this represents a consensus from #git and in some cases helps you frame the discussion for the generation of your very own best practices.

Beyond Ruby

The Siren Song of the ‘User’ Model

I think everyone in tech would improve at their jobs if we all stopped defaulting to the concept of a ‘user.’ I think the concept of a ‘user’ pigeonholes us into ideas that mislead our product direction and corrupt our technical choices.

Book Review: A Philosophy of Software Design

This review is largely in response to the article "It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code", and the ensuing Reddit discussion. A lot of really interesting points were brought up, but the big question that the author themself wasn't able to answer was: "What should we recommend instead?"

Repository of the week

Wasmer Ruby embedding 1.0 take-off

About two years ago, we released wasmer-ruby, the Wasmer embedding for Ruby. It allows Ruby developers to embed and natively reference WebAssembly functions from their Ruby applications. Since its inception, the embedding has gained hundreds if not thousands of users and followers on Github and other forums.