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![[EN] How I upgraded my pet project from Rails 7 to Rails 8 in 30 minutes](/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTM4NjgsInB1ciI6ImJsb2JfaWQifX0=--ddfae5ae5e0fb8ce65bf8ca2ae6f6cfa41814597/rubyonrails14.avif)
[EN] How I upgraded my pet project from Rails 7 to Rails 8 in 30 minutes
I have a custom/ folder in my project where I keep files that I change instead of modifying generated files. The only change in generated files is customization loading. As a result when I need to upgrade a project I overwrite default files with b...

Supercharge the One Person Framework with SQLite | Fractaled Mind
From its beginning, Rails has been famous for being a kind of a rocket engine that could propel your idea to astronomic heights at supersonic speed. But, at least for me, it has lately felt like I needed to be a rocket scientist to then deploy and...

Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection | Rails at Scale
In 2023, I wrote about how we’ve tuned Ruby’s garbage collector for Shopify’s monolith, including how we implemented out-of-band garbage collection to reduce the impact of major collection on latency.
While the latency improvements were massive, ...

Joy of Rails | Sending Web Push Notifications from Rails
You may have heard news: Rails 8 will extract a new framework for Web Push in Rails. Web Push notifications are powerful because they allow your Rails application to engage with your users even when they’re not on your site.
A Web Push Notificati...

ActiveAdmin v4 Beta: New Features, Upgrades, and How to Migrate
ActiveAdmin has been a popular administrative framework in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem for over a decade. It provides developers with a quick and efficient way to build administrative interfaces with minimal code.
With the release of ActiveAdmin ...


Wikidata is a Giant Crosswalk File | Drew Breunig
Let’s build a massive crosswalk connecting map data with just Wikidata, DuckDB, some Ruby, and a hard-won bash one-linerWikidata is Wikipedia’s structuralist younger brother. It’s contents are seemingly exhaustive, but rather than readable article...