Actionable Tips to Improve Web Performance with Rails — Based on a talk from Wroclove.rb, the tools and tricks listed here will result in better Rails and general Web performance.

Radek Markiewicz

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Pagy: The 'Ultimate' Pagination Ruby Gem — Works with all Rack-based frameworks, is storage/ORM agnostic, and boasts that it outperforms other similar libraries in benchmarks.

Domizio Demichelis

Building an API Client Using the Builder Pattern — Using immutability and a fluent interface can lead to an expressive API that is a joy to use.

Eliav Lavi

The Performance Impact of Removing OOBGC at GitHub — “Until last week, GitHub used an Out of Band Garbage Collector in production. Since removing it, we decreased CPU time across our production machines by 10%.”

Aaron Patterson

Ryan Davis on Asking for Help for Contributing to Ruby — Ryan formed Seattle.rb, created minitest, ruby_parser, hoe, and more, and is exploring the idea of being supported in his efforts via Patreon.

Ryan Davis

RubyGems 2.7.7 Released — It’s a very minor bugfix release.

RubyGems Blog

The Moment Ruby Became 'Ruby' — A chat log from 25 years ago reveals all.

Hiroshi Sugihara

Do We Need Dependency Injection in Ruby? — By way of a simple example.

Kevin Baribeau

Lead Full Stack Engineer — We're a fashion startup growing at break-neck speed looking for a Ruby and Elixir star to lead our stellar dev team.

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Full Stack Engineer - Build Software That Save Lives — Build software that makes police responses safer to 911 calls for those experiencing mental health issues, chemical dependencies, and homelessness.

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Ruby 2.5 Added Lazy Proc Allocation for Block Parameters — This can mean faster performance with less memory.

BigBinary Blog

Separating Data and Code in Rails Architecture — The importance of stateless code grows in importance compared to object-oriented principles as an application gets larger.

Root Engineering

Securing Dependencies for Rails 5.2 Active Storage — How Heroku vetted the FFmpeg package by considering project response to issues and the ability to roll their own static binary.

Heroku

eBook: Efficient Project Management for Small Engineering Teams

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Feature Tests vs. Integration Tests vs. Unit Tests — A high-level Rails-centric explanation.

Cezar Halmagean

Monitoring SSL Certificate Expiry with Ruby — A little Ruby script to monitor sites and send notifications for expiring SSL certs.

micketic

Introducing Stealth, a Framework for Conversational Voice and Chatbots — Stealth pulls in many concepts from Rails and is deployable anywhere.

Black Ops

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Rails DB: Rails Database Viewer and SQL Query Runner

Igor Kasyanchuk

SimpleForm: Forms Made Easy for Rails — Aims for flexibility so you can lay out a form exactly as you like. Uses a DSL inherited from Formtastic.

Plataformatec

RoleCore: A Rails Engine Providing Role-Based Access Control — Formerly known as rbac_core

Rails Engine