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Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2 | GitHub Engineering
On August 15th GitHub celebrated a major milestone: our main application is now running on the latest version of Rails: 5.2.1! In total the project took a year and a half to upgrade from Rails 3.2 to Rails 5.2. Along the way we took time to clean ...
Stop forgetting your foreign key indexes in Rails with this simple post-migration script
One of our New Year’s resolutions at Peg was to make the site faster. For the most part the site was responsive (requests completed in < 100ms), but certain pages were taking much longer to load than they should - with database queries eating up m...