Blogs
How Much Do You Save With Ruby 2.7 Memory Compaction?
If you read this blog recently, you may have seen that Ruby Memory Compaction in 2.7 doesn’t affect the speed of Rails Ruby Bench much. That’s fair - RRB isn’t a great way to see that because of how it works. Indeed, Nate Berkopec and others have ...
Repurposing an old Android phone as a Ruby web server
Do you have an old Android phone? Sure you do! There’s a mind-blowing amount of electronic waste of all kinds, and with the average person in developed countries discarding their phones every couple of years, discarded smartphones are probably one...
Wrangling slow reports, large file exports, and long-running tasks in Rails with ActiveJob
Sometimes we need to generate really large file exports or run reports that are just slow. It’s not enough to optimize a few queries, we need to move the work to a background job and notify the user when it’s all. In every non-trivial application ...