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Taking off the Heroku training wheels: the Rails preflight checklist
An opinionated guide for small teams on setting up Heroku to deploy Rails applications—with pleasure.You’ll hardly find a Ruby on Rails developer who has never tried to deploy their applications via Heroku, a cloud-based platform which innovated h...
Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the Outside — Matthew Gaudet
As someone who comes from a compiler background, when asked to make a language fast, I’m sympathetic to the reaction: “Just throw a compiler at it!”. However, working on SpiderMonkey, I’ve come to the conclusion that a fast language implementation...
A definitive guide to Ruby gems dependency management | Snyk
Ruby, much like other programming languages, has an entire ecosystem of third-party open source libraries which it refers to as gems, or sometimes Ruby gems. These gems are authored by the community, and are available from RubyGems.org which is th...
A Single file Rails Application | { Greg Molnar }
Did you know that you can create a single-file Rails application?You shouldn't unless you are experimenting with something, but regardless, let me show you how it's done.Let's create a file and call it "app.ru", the "ru" extension means it will be...
Interactive Rails with StimulusReflex - free course Thanks Jason Charnes!
Reactive web applications with less JavaScriptDoes it sound too good to be true? I felt the same way when I heard that claim.
I first heard such a claim from the Elixir community when the Phoenix framework introduced LiveView. People were talking...
Stack Overflow’s 2022 Developer Survey: Is Ruby the New COBOL!?..
Here's Stack Overflow's data for worlwide salaries from 2013 to 2022. You can see that Ruby has increased from a median of about $60,000 in 2013 to $90,000 in 2022.
You can see from the data that this is ahead of the median but less than the high...
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