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RailsConf 2022 - Functional Programming in Plain Terms by Eric Weinstein - YouTube
Have you ever wanted to know what a monad is? How about a functor? What about algebraic data types and parametric polymorphism? If you've been interested in these ideas but scared off by the language, you're not alone: for an approach that champio...

RailsConf 2022 - The pitfalls of realtime-ification by Vladimir Dementyev - YouTube
Building realtime applications with Rails has become a no-brainer since Action Cable came around. With Hotwire, we don't even need to leave the comfort zone of HTML and controllers to introduce live updates to a Rails app. Realtime-ification in ev...


Speed Up Your Rails App By Lazy Loading Your N 1 Queries
Wouldn't it be great if ActiveRecord didn't make you think about eager loading and it just did the "right" thing by default? Lazy loading is extremely helpful when the list of associations to load is determined dynamically. Today on the show, Ch...



Update drg_material_icons gem to version 0.2.0 and gain more then 300 new Google material icons
The drg_material_icons gem provides Google Material icon web fonts and stylesheets as a Rails engine for use with the asset pipeline. Font files are loaded locally from your server so there is no fear for privacy. What is new:- Google decided to r...

Ruby on Rails — Improved PostgreSQL support, performance improvements and more...
Hi, this is Petrik, bringing you the latest news from the Rails world.Optimize Active Record batchingInstead of specifying a long list of ids for batch queries (WHERE IN (…ids…)), Active Record will iterate in ranges (WHERE id >= num1 AND id < num...
