Fullstaq Ruby: An Alternative CRuby Distribution, Optimized for Production — A CRuby/MRI-based Ruby distribution that’s optimized for production environments out of the box, such as using the popular Jemalloc and malloc_trim patches. GitHub repo.

Hongli Lai

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Ruby Processes and Threads: Configuring a Web Server — A look at the effects of increasing threads vs increasing processes vs increasing both upon the performance of Web applications.

Jake Yesbeck

Using Multiple Databases with Active Record in Rails 6+ — Rails 6 is adding the ability to work with multiple databases in a single app out of the box and the official Rails Guide on the topic is coming along nicely.

Ruby on Rails Guides

Whenever 1.0: Cron Jobs, but for Ruby — Whenever makes it easy to write and deploy cron jobs using a Ruby DSL (e.g. every 3.hours do ...) which is then converted into cron syntax.

Javan Makhmali

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Land a New Dev Job on Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers.

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Scaling Your Ruby Service Objects with LightService — The light-service gem implements the Railway (or, some might say, Interactor) pattern.

Riaz Virani

A Repeatable, Step-by-Step Process for Writing Rails Integration Tests with Capybara — If you’re having TDD-paralysis, this is helpful.

Jason Swett

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Rails 6 Adds Enumerable#index_with — No more map with to_h.

Amit Choudhary

Quick Tip: A Rails Middleware to Change The Log Level At Runtime

Mattia Roccoberton

The Difference between RSpec, Capybara and Cucumber — Aimed at beginners to whom these tools may be entirely new.

Jason Swett

A Look at Node.js for Rails Lovers — If you’re from a Ruby background and haven’t even played with Node.js, this will help paint a little of the picture.

Craig Phares

How I Test JavaScript-Heavy Rails Apps

Jason Swett

RubyGems 3.0.4 Released — 3.0.4 gains TruffleRuby support. The 2.7 branch gets a new release too with 2.7.10.

RubyGems Blog

Timeliness: Fast Date/Time Parsing for the 'Control Freak' — An interesting alternative to time/parse for working with formatted dates (Chronic is still a great option if you need to support natural language).

Adam Meehan

Monitoring and Distributed Tracing for Ruby Apps — Trace real requests from end-to-end to identify latency or errors in your Ruby applications with Datadog APM. Try Datadog free.

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reCAPTCHA 5.0: ReCaptcha Helpers for Ruby Apps — A way to more easily use Google’s popular (but often controversial) CAPTCHA service from Ruby apps, including both v2 and v3 variants.

Jason L Perry

Shoryuken 5: A Super Efficient Amazon SQS Thread Based Message Processor — It’s neat to see so many mature, established Ruby libraries getting updates lately.

Pablo Cantero

fog 2.2: The Ruby Cloud Services Library — A way to manage cloud services (storage, DNS, compute, etc.) in a relatively abstracted, agnostic way.

Wesley Beary and Contributors

Phrasing: Let Admins Edit Phrases Inline on Your Rails Apps

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