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The Benefits of Materialized Views (and how to use them in your Ruby on Rails project)

The Benefits of Materialized Views (and how to use them in your Ruby on Rails project) When I first heard about materialized views, my mind was kind of blown. “So, I can write a SQL query and the results can be stored as its own table (and live on disk?)”. If that puppy lives in-memory, it’s GOT TO BE faster then having to dig into ...

Building SQL expressions with Sequel

Building SQL expressions with Sequel The Sequel ORM offers a powerful API for building SQL expressions in Ruby. In this article I'll explain how it works and show how it can improve the readability of your. I’ve recently started working on a new project which uses Sequel, and it remi...

Web apps in Ruby or PHP? My thoughts

Web apps in Ruby or PHP? My thoughts Customers often have to decide in which programming language they would like their product to be created. Ruby and PHP are on of the most common dilemma. Inspire of PHP’s former popularity, recently more and more customers are reporting their need...

Good News! You No Longer Need to Generate Documentation Manually

Good News! You No Longer Need to Generate Documentation Manually No one likes to manually produce documentation. It takes too much time. It’s hard to use the right forms. And it’s just plain boring.And yet, it’s critically important to produce up-to-date documentation. Most front-end developers don’t understand...

Writing GraphQL queries in native Ruby = Love ❤️

Writing GraphQL queries in native Ruby = Love ❤️ GraphQL has made waves with front end developers, but if you’re a backend developer, chances are it hasn’t infiltrated your world –– you might not even know what it is. And it’s not your fault. There has been a limited amount of blog posts, talks ...

Multi-Tenant Architecture

Multi-Tenant Architecture Multi-tenant architecture allows one instance of an application to serve multiple customers/organizations. Each customer/organization is called a tenant. Each has its own apparent separate application and is not aware of the other tenants. The t...

Fibers are the Right Solution

Fibers are the Right Solution The majority of performance improvements in modern processors are due to increased core count rather than increased instruction execution frequency. To maximise hardware utilization, applications need to use multiple processes and threads. Servers...

Local SSL for Rails 5 development and tests

Local SSL for Rails 5 development and tests Is your Rails app on SSL in production? It may be a good idea to use SSL locally too. It's just that it's typically been a pain to set up. Using SSL for Rails acceptance tests with Capybara has.

Avoiding Network Calls In Rails Tests Without Using Mocks, Stubs or VCR - Code with Jason

Avoiding Network Calls In Rails Tests Without Using Mocks, Stubs or VCR - Code with Jason An important principle of testing is that tests should be deterministic. The passing or failing of a test shouldn’t depend on the date it was run, whether any certain other tests ran before it, or whether some condition outside the application cha...

Hash Rockets are good actually

Hash Rockets are good actually I've been asked a few times recently why I prefer Ruby's hash rockets to the "new" or "1.9" hash syntax. I figured I'd document it for posterity. I'm aware this is like an extremely unpopular take. This is my opinion, I hope you give it the time t...

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