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Utilizing AWS Lambda and Rails to Build Applications with Ken Collins
On this episode of Remote Ruby, we have an awesome guest joining us. Today, we have Ken Collins, who’s a Principal Engineer and Cloud Architect at Custom Ink, an active member in the Ruby community for over fifteen years, a Microsoft open source c...
My journey from frustration with the JavaScript stack to finding joy in Ruby on Rails
This popularity can be exciting for those who are already familiar with programming and enjoy experimenting with new tools. Are you unhappy with React? Maybe you should try Vue? Too complex? Go with Svelte. Is Webpack taking too long? Give esbuild...
Consider find_each for looping through Active Record associations - Andy Croll
The standard method for enumerating through groups of objects, both through arrays in Ruby and through Active Record models in Rails, is each.However, if you are looping over a large amount of data, perhaps all the records for a model in order to ...
Improving the Developer Experience with the Ruby LSP (2023)
Today, tooling has become a key part of this goal. Many modern languages, such as TypeScript and Rust, have rich and robust tooling to enhance the programming experience. That’s why we built the Ruby LSP, a new language server that makes coding in...
It's Official: the Standard Ruby VS Code extension: Hope you like your formatters fast
Last year, I switched to VS Code after a decade using vim in the terminal, and overall the transition has been worthwhile, if not seamless. Its integrated debugger, web editor that syncs your settings, stellar remote pair-programming experience, a...
We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit
Since declaring our intention to leave the cloud in October, we've been busy at work making it so. After a brief detour down a blind alley with an enterprise Kubernetes provider, we found our stride building our own tools, and successfully moved t...
Ruby 2.6.10 was consistently outperforming all new Rubies on.
Recently I had been going through some of the old benchmarks in the Ruby Great Implementation Shootout from around 2010.As an experiment, one night I ran the benchmarks against Ruby 3.2.0, Ruby 3.2.0 --yjit, TruffleRuby, TruffleRuby GraalVM, and ...
"Upgrading the Ruby Community" - Pat Allan (RubyConf AU 2023) - YouTube
(Pat Allan) "The Ruby community has a reputation across the wider tech industry for being a bit special: opinionated, yes, but also warm and welcoming. Our conferences, our events, even our code is so often a bit more thoughtful and a bit more fun...