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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...