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Scale your Ruby applications with Active Record support for Cloud Spanner
We're very excited to announce the general availability of the Ruby Active Record Adapter for Google Cloud Spanner. Ruby Active Record is a powerful Object-Relational Mapping(ORM) library bundled with Ruby on Rails. Active Record provides an abstr...
The Fastest Way To Load Data Into Postgres With Ruby on Rails
Data migration is a delicate and sometimes complicated and time-consuming process. Whether you are loading data from a legacy application to a new application or you just want to move data from one database to another, you’ll most likely need to c...
Rails 7.0 RC1: New JavaScript Answers, At-Work Encryption, Query Origin Logging, Zeitwerk Exclusively
We’re almost ready to declare Rails 7 done! The feedback since the first alpha release has been wonderful, we’ve eliminated a slew of issues, and we’ve seen Basecamp, HEY, GitHub, and Shopify all run in production on this alpha series. So we now f...
Shopify-Made Patterns in Our Rails Apps — Development (2021)
At Shopify, we’ve developed our own patterns in order to support our global platform. Before coming here, I've developed multiple Ruby (and Rails) applications at multiple growth stages. Because of that, I quickly came to appreciate some workaroun...
Rails 7.0 RC1: New JavaScript Answers, At-Work Encryption, Query Origin Logging, Zeitwerk Exclusively | Riding Rails
We’re almost ready to declare Rails 7 done! The feedback since the first alpha release has been wonderful, we’ve eliminated a slew of issues, and we’ve seen Basecamp, HEY, GitHub, and Shopify all run in production on this alpha series. So we now f...