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A small authorization library, inspired by Pundit, but built for scopes
Moat is a minimalist authorization library for Ruby web applications. It is inspired by Pundit.Moat vs. Pundit: What's the difference?They are similar libraries, with an important distinction: Pundit is centered around authorizing individual resou...
Introducing Konfig: A Kubernetes Friendly Rails Configuration Gem
Konfig is a new open-source project created and maintained by Cloud 66. In a nutshell, Konfig is a Kubernetes friendly Rails configuration gem.What does that mean? While Rails applications typically read YAML files to load their configurations, Ku...
How Does Ruby Garbage Collection Work? A Simple Tutorial
Ruby, like most other modern, high-level programming languages, doesn’t force you to manage memory. This feature is called garbage collection, or GC, and you get it for free in Ruby. You can write tons of Ruby code and never give a second thought ...
Setting up Rails 6 app with multiple databases on Heroku
Rails 6 is just around the corner. The release candidate two was recently released. This post is part of the Road to Rails 6 series which will prepare you for Rails 6.When we create a new brand new Rails 6 app, it is configured to use only one dat...