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Ruby Code Quality with Ernesto Tagwerker | hexdevs
Are you working on Ruby on Rails Applications that are constantly on fire, overwhelmed by technical debt?Instead of being a firefighter, what if you could be a happy programmer again and “Escape the tar pit”?Learn exactly how to measure tech debt ...


Noteflakes: Signal handling in concurrent apps with Ruby and Polyphony
In the last few weeks I’ve been writing about different aspects of Polyphony, a library for writing fiber-based concurrent apps in Ruby. Polyphony makes it easy for developers to use stock Ruby core and stdlib classes and APIs in a highly-concurre...

Starting your Rails project with an ultra-light setup
Suppose that we need to create a Rails project that will use the classic ERB views and PostgreSQL. One way to start with is simply by running the following command to create a new Rails project called my-project :I’m using Ruby 2.7.1 and Rails 6ra...





Noteflakes: Real-world Concurrency with Ruby and Polyphony: a Telnet Chat App
Recently there has been a lot of renewed interest in fibers as the building blocks for writing concurrent Ruby apps. Most of the articles written lately (my own included) have tried to explain what are fibers, how they can be used for writing conc...