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E-BOOK: The Ruby on Rails Interview Bible - A Comprehensive Guide with
So whether you're a Ruby on Rails developer preparing for an interview, an interviewer looking for a comprehensive guide to assess candidates, or a junior developer or contractor looking to refresh your knowledge, The Ruby on Rails Interview Bible...

Why I Stopped Using Sorbet in All My Ruby Projects
For over five years, in a professional capacity, I’ve worked mostly on projects built using Ruby. Most of the systems I worked on used Ruby on Rails and varied in size from microservice to monolith.For several of those years, I’d repeatedly get fr...

How we upgraded our entire Ruby on Rails monolith in one month
Over the last 7 months, we have completed several large-scale upgrades to our Rails Monolith in hopes of keeping our platform modern and ready for the next big move. The most daunting of which is undoubtedly the migration from Turbolinks and @rail...



Our Ruby on Rails System Tests Got 4 Times Faster With One Setting
Let me explain something right away: what I’m going to talk about is pretty unique to our application. If you don’t have an application like ours, then what I’ve written here might not help you. Our application is very big (3.8 million lines of Ru...

Concurrency and parallelism in Ruby (Processes, Threads, Fibers and Ractors) by Jan Grela - Visuality
How to achieve concurrency and parallelism in Ruby? There are a couple of ways and I will describe these in the following article. It only covers the usage of Ruby core and standard library modules.Modern CPUs consist of multiple cores, so softwar...

Its 2023 and hiring interviews are still messy. Can we as (Ruby On
Its 2023 and hiring interviews are still messy. Can we as (Ruby On Rails) community make them better?In the video of my talk at the Ruby On Rails Global Summit 2023, I delve into the current state of hiring and interviewing practices. I examine wh...

DID YOU ALREADY TRIED QUIZ RUBY ON RAILS? - DEV Community
A few months ago, I created a website where fans of Ruby on Rails can test their knowledge by playing small knowledge quiz games. All questions were generated by ChatGPT in February 2023.The site contains 16 games with different levels of question...

Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails | The GitHub Blog
Every Monday a scheduled GitHub Action workflow triggers an automated pull request, which bumps our Rails version to the latest commit on the Rails main branch for that day. All our builds run on this new version of Rails. Once all the builds pass...