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Repurposing an old Android phone as a Ruby web server

Repurposing an old Android phone as a Ruby web server Do you have an old Android phone? Sure you do! There’s a mind-blowing amount of electronic waste of all kinds, and with the average person in developed countries discarding their phones every couple of years, discarded smartphones are probably one...

Pay No Attention: Behind the Magic of Ruby DSLs

Pay No Attention: Behind the Magic of Ruby DSLs Recently, I rolled onto a mobile project with a web back end written in Ruby on Rails. This was my first experience with both Ruby and Rails.The first feature work I did in the back end involved adding an administrative portal using Active Admin. ...

Dockerizing a Ruby on Rails Application

Dockerizing a Ruby on Rails Application In this tutorial, you will learn how to dockerize a Ruby on Rails application. The application we’re going to build will make use of PostgreSQL, Redis, and Sidekiq.We’ll also be using Unicorn and Nginx in both development and production. If you wo...

16 New ML Gems for Ruby

16 New ML Gems for Ruby In August, I set out to improve the machine learning ecosystem for Ruby. I wasn’t sure where it would go. Over the next 5 months, I ended up releasing 16 libraries and learned a lot along the way. I wanted to share some of that knowledge and intro...

Wrangling slow reports, large file exports, and long-running tasks in Rails with ActiveJob

Wrangling slow reports, large file exports, and long-running tasks in Rails with ActiveJob Sometimes we need to generate really large file exports or run reports that are just slow. It’s not enough to optimize a few queries, we need to move the work to a background job and notify the user when it’s all. In every non-trivial application ...

Why the Sorbet typechecker is fast

Why the Sorbet typechecker is fast This is the second in an indefinite series of posts about things that I think went well in the Sorbet project. The previous one covered our testing approach.Sorbet is fast. Numerous of our early users commented specifically on how fast it was, and...

Optimization Techniques by Benchmark Winners

Optimization Techniques by Benchmark Winners This post is based on Jeremy Evans‘s Optimization Techniques Used by the Benchmark Winners presentation. Slides | YouTube at Ruby Kaigi 2019. It‘s better to watch his fabulous presentation, but you can come back here for written references. These ...

Introducing JsonApiable, Because Building RESTful JSON:APIs in Ruby Should Be Easier

Introducing JsonApiable, Because Building RESTful JSON:APIs in Ruby Should Be Easier If you are building a REST API on Ruby/Rails and decide to implement it as a JSON:API to avoid bike-shedding, chances are you are using fast_jsonapi or active_model_serializers gem to serialize your resources (if you still haven’t decided which on...

Cache Crispies - Fast, Flexible Rails Serializer

Cache Crispies - Fast, Flexible Rails Serializer You might decide to turn to Netflix's Fast JSON API, which is not a bad idea at all. But you'll have to conform to the JSON:API specification, which might be a major breaking change for your frontend and/or your API consumers. I know the frontend ...

3 ways Webpack surprises web developers

3 ways Webpack surprises web developers When I first started working with Webpack, I didn't realize how under-prepared I was. I was tasked with integrating Webpack into a large Rails app and I made a lot of mistakes along the way. I assumed how things should behave based on my previous ...

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