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JRuby on CRaC Part 1: Let's Get CRaCking! – Charles Oliver Nutter
The Hardest Problem in JRubyJRuby is the most successful and widely-deployed alternative Ruby implementation, but is frequently overlooked as an option due to several misconceptions:“JRuby won’t work for my app because we use C extensions”Most pop...
Scaling Rails and Postgres to Millions of Users at Microsoft: Lessons and Takeaways – StepChange
Do you have a Rails app built on PostgreSQL and need to scale it to millions of users? In this interview, I speak with Andrew Atkinson, one of StepChange's expert consultants, who brings deep expertise in optimizing Rails applications for performa...
Transpiling Go and Java to Ruby using GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet
The project was to extend our DevQualityEval LLM LLM code generation benchmark with a new language: Ruby. We successfully used LLMs to transpile existing Java and Go code (tasks and test cases) to Ruby. The workflow of this project and our experie...
The Thread API : Concurrent, colorless Ruby - JP Camara
We’re going to break down threads into three parts:The Thread API - All the tools available to you in the Ruby runtime to manage threads, and how they workInterrupting Threads - How threads get stuck, and how to shut them down safelyThread and its...
How to save a recently viewed list of pages with Stimulus and localStorage
Creating a "recently viewed pages" list can significantly enhance the user experience by providing easy navigation and a history of recently accessed content. Seeing how we are already using Rails, we are going to leverage Stimulus. Also, instead ...
Structure Your ERb and Partials for more Maintainable Front-end Code in Rails
When should we use a partial or a helper–or a partial rendered using a helper? Which elements should be extracted into partials or helpers? When can we use a simple helper and skip the partial file? When should we use the built-in tag helpers inst...
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