--- title: "Actionable tips to improve web performance with Rails" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 400 published_at: "2018-05-24" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/400" --- This week's Ruby news, issue 400 #400 — May 24, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/400) Ruby Weekly [Actionable Tips to Improve Web Performance with Rails](https://www.monterail.com/blog/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 ▶[The Future of Rails 6: Scalable by Default](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8evXWvM4oXM) — Is Rails ‘Fisher Price infrastructure’ or can it scale? It can, but it’s not as easy as it should be _yet_. This talk looks at efforts being made to make Rails 6 the most scalable version ever. 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We linked DHH’s opening keynote last week but now you can enjoy Aaron ‘tenderlove’ Patterson as he covers making Ruby faster, Unicode whitespace, tuning Ruby’s GC, and more. _(Note: Technical content starts around [10 minutes in](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBFuZivrdT0#t=10m10s).)_ YouTube [Building an API Client Using the Builder Pattern](https://medium.com/rubyinside/building-a-creative-fun-api-client-in-ruby-a-builder-pattern-variation-f50613abd4c3) — 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](https://githubengineering.com/removing-oobgc/) — _“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](http://www.zenspider.com/ruby/2018/05/the-art-of-asking.html) — 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](https://blog.rubygems.org/2018/05/18/2.7.7-released.html) — It’s a very minor bugfix release. RubyGems Blog [The Moment Ruby Became 'Ruby'](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/88819) — A chat log from 25 years ago reveals all. Hiroshi Sugihara ▶[Use Beautiful Binary Literals in Ruby](https://www.rubytapas.com/2018/05/22/beautiful-binary-literals/) — Avdi has made this (very first) episode of his Ruby Tapas series free. 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