One Weird Trick That Will Speed Up Your Bundle Install

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One Weird Trick That Will Speed Up Your Bundle Install

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One Weird Trick That Will Speed Up Your Bundle Install

Brian John shares a tip to speed up your bundle install.

Rails

Rails 7.0 adds encryption to Active Record models

Before Rails 7.0, to add encryption on attributes of ActiveRecord models, we had to use third-party gems like lockbox which served the purpose but at the cost of an additional dependency.

Rails under the hood: Routes

Explanation of how routes in Rails work under the hood.

Ruby

Ruby Schedulers: Whenever vs Sidekiq Cron vs Sidekiq Scheduler

Sometimes you don’t have the choice but to use a good old’ cron job for backups, credit renewals, and other time constrained tasks. We will study 3 Ruby solutions to schedule tasks: Whenever, sidekiq-cron and sidekiq-scheduler.

The Best Ruby HTTP clients for 2021

This article will discuss the best HTTP clients in Ruby. Faraday, HTTParty, Rest-client...it can be hard to choose the best one.

Overview: Linter Ruby Libraries

In this article we introduce you to a different kind of linters, those implemented by various Ruby libraries.

Blast from the past

Two years of squash merge

A retrospective of the last two years where we adopted --squash as our default merge strategy for git branches.

Beyond Ruby

How we ship code faster and safer with feature flags - The GitHub Blog

At GitHub, we improve existing features and work on new ones all the time, so we use feature flags to ship faster and to lower the risk of deployments.