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One of the most frequent code smells in Rails is an excessive use of inheritance. A serious drawback from using inheritance to achieve polymorphism is the implicit coupling it creates between parent and child classes.
At some point of any Ruby on Rails project's life the codebase starts to get messy, and you sense that you have to address this before the tech debt pile reaches unmanageable proportions.
From basic setup to advanced MCP integration: using Dev Containers for portable development environments that eliminate "works on my machine" problems.
Let's talk about your application during Euruko!
A compilation of good practices to write optimized Ruby code that you can apply to any Rails application.
So using Ruby, what is the largest Fibonacci number we can calculate quickly?
In the happy world of Ruby, we don't RTFM, we RTNM!
SQL is among the main skills for Ruby on Rails developers. When talking about performance, it's, for instance, critical to understand a query plan. When unsure, experimenting can sometimes go a long way, as this story of query optimization can tell.
In any Rails application that deals with large amounts of records, you will most certainly reach for pagination to "window" your data instead of rendering it in one long list.
Ruby meetups are coming back in Europe!
Querying your database across associations can become a bottleneck in your Rails application. Julian Rubisch, our first guest author, explains why and suggests an efficient solution.
As much as we enjoy Ruby, we have long thought the Ruby documentation could use more love. We could contribute and give some.
Monitoring performances is not only about collecting metrics, but also about advising and educating. We will go more in that direction in a friendly and human way.
After a triumphant return in 2023 and a well-deserved summer break, GenevaRB is back for a new season.
The Garbage Collector releases memory slots from unused objects. However, it interrupts the Ruby execution and might significantly increase requests' response time. Would you like to know how the GC slows down your app?
Last week's article, Super Fast Rails, received many funny reactions. But for some people, that was too much.
Most of the time, optimizing a Rails application requires repeating the same techniques. For example, at the database layer, it's about creating the proper indexes, preventing 1+N queries, etc. Could we do that automatically?
Every dog has its day.
Here are the techniques I've acquired over more than 10 years of regular load testing.
Delve into best practices for HTTP, Ruby on Rails, and databases, and discover when to adhere to the rules or when breaking them could set your code apart.
Wasting time on a monitoring tool is a luxury small teams can’t afford.
On November 24th, I had the pleasure of attending Helvetic Ruby, the first-ever Ruby conference in Switzerland. Here is my review.
Crazy discount Rails monitoring
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