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Investigating the Performance of a Problematic Rails API Endpoint
It recently came to my attention that one of our API endpoints was hogging a lot of resources and taking over 3 seconds to complete per request. I was able to cut average memory usage from 85mb to 7mb and average request duration from 3000ms to 15...
Permitting Nested Arrays using Strong Params in Rails
Strong Parameters, aka Strong Params, are used in many Rails applications to increase the security of data sent through forms. Strong Params allow developers to specify in the controller which parameters are accepted and used. By permitting only t...
Understanding Webpacker in Rails 6 | Road to Rails 6
Starting with Rails 6, Webpacker is the default JavaScript compiler. It means that all the JavaScript code will be handled by Webpacker instead of the old assets pipeline aka Sprockets. Webpacker is different from asset pipeline in terms of philos...
Separate schema from data migrations in your Rails apps
Nonschema migrations, also known as data migrations, are a alternative kind of Rails migration. The data migrations operate exactly like schema migrations, except instead of running migrations to make changes to your schema (adding fields, droppin...
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