Tutorials




Pulling the trigger: How to update counter caches in your Rails app without Active Record callbacks
In this article, we experiment with triggers as a tool for keeping aggregated data consistent when using Active Record and your favorite SQL database. Instead of using sophisticated tools such as ElasticSearch for filtering and searching, we will ...

How to Stay Up to Date With Your Rails Application
An outdated Rails application doesn't happen overnight. In FastRuby.io we work with a lot of clients who have outdated Rails applications and we help them upgrade to a newer Rails version. In this article I share some things that you could start d...





Living on the Edge of Rails – Shopify Engineering
At Shopify, we make keeping our dependencies up to date a priority. Having outdated dependencies exposes your project to security issues and contributes towards technical debt. Upgrading a large dependency like Rails can be overwhelming, if you ar...