Blogs

A portal between Ruby and Go (using FFI) | Dario Castañé
Thinking about migrating some huge REST APIs from Ruby to Go, I researched how to replace the Ruby code progressively with Go code.I ended up with a possible FFI-based prototype. The solution is to have the Ruby code load a Go library and wrap the...

How I migrated a Rails app from Webpack to esbuild and got smaller and faster JS builds | Arkency Blog
In the last week, I have been responsible for migrating a pretty big (300k lines of JS code) project from Webpack 4 to esbuild. In our Rails project, we were using Webpacker to integrate our JS stack with the main application. For the last months...

Courier Raised a $35M Series B to Make Notifications Delightful
We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised $35M to provide engineering teams with fantastic notification infrastructure! The round was led by GV with participation from our existing investors at Bessemer Venture Partners and Matrix Partners.“Cour...


RailsConf 2022: 10 Shopify Tech Talks You Might Have Missed — Development
“We need the videos” was the refrain from engineers following the 16th edition of RailsConf. Back in May, the annual event returned to an in-person format after two years of COVID restrictions, taking over the Oregon Convention Center in Portland ...

Ruby gem installations can expose you to lockfile injection attacks | Snyk
In this post, we’ll look at the security blindspots of lockfile injection that a Ruby gem might expose via its Gemfile.lock. As a prelude to that, we will open up with a brief introduction to Ruby and third-party dependencies management around Rub...

Integration of React Webpack Rails rails/webpacker including server-side rendering of React,
React on Rails integrates Rails with (server rendering of) Facebook's React front-end framework.This project is maintained by the software consulting firm ShakaCode. We focus on Ruby on Rails applications with React front-ends, often using TypeScr...


Mastering CSV in Ruby - free book by Pawel Dabrowski, Thank you Pawel!
This book is an up-to-date, well-organized knowledge base for anyone dealing with CSV files as a Ruby developer. From simple actions like reading and creating CSV files to processing CSV with Rails, parsing large files, and using advanced preproce...

Create an EC2 Instance with Ruby installation Using AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation is a service that gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, and provision and manages them in an orderly and predictable fashion. We will be using Mappings, Reso...