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Two Garbage Collection Improvements Made Our Storefronts 8percent Faster | Rails at Scale
At Shopify, we are constantly working on improving the performance of Ruby for everyone. From YJIT, to Variable Width Allocation, to Object Shapes, we are making improvements to Ruby in many areas. One of our goals for the year is to analyze, tune...
Rails 7.1 adds picture_tag helper to support HTML5 picture element | Shakacode
HTML5 introduced the picture tag, represented as which allows developers to provide multiple sources of an image and specify different versions of the image for different scenarios, such as different screen sizes or resolutions.The HTML element ...
The Case Against Monkey Patching, From a Rails Core Team Member (2023)
If you’re new to Ruby, you might not be familiar with monkey patching because some other languages make it difficult to change the behavior of existing code. A monkey patch is code that dynamically alters the behavior of existing objects, typicall...
Discover vulnerabilities across a codebase with CodeQL
Discover vulnerabilities across a codebase with CodeQL, our industry-leading semantic code analysis engine. CodeQL lets you query code as though it were data. Write a query to find all variants of a vulnerability, eradicating it forever. Then shar...
Ruby Learning by Reversing: Series 1 - Native Gems
In this series of posts, I want to look at how to create a native gem for Ruby in C. Actually, it would be more accurate to say – I want to look at how a native gem has been created in C for Ruby. So, I will look at one native gem and we will reve...
Empowering Ruby in the World of Machine Learning - DEV Community
In the ever-evolving landscape of machine learning, a few programming languages have traditionally held the limelight – Python, R, and Julia, to name a few. Yet, nestled in the shadows, the Ruby programming language has been quietly proving its me...
Rodauth, A Authentication for Ruby and Rails – JetRockets
Within the Rails community, we have witnessed a series of transitions and advancements. We have evolved from Bootstrap to Tailwind, replacing JQuery with Backbone and later adopting Stimulus for front-end development. Our deployment practices have...
Ruby on Rails — Introducing the Rails Luminary Awards: Nominations Now Open
Starting at Rails World in October, the Rails Foundation will establish a new tradition of celebrating Rails Luminaries- people who’ve contributed to the Rails ecosystem and community with exceptional code, documentation, enthusiasm, or assistance...
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