Ruby
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The problem with eating paste
Thinking about installing react-rails? Consider this cautionary tale before you do. -
The Best Kind of Brilliant
The Ruby community has lost a true luminary this week with the passing of Chris Seaton, staff researcher at Shopify and creator of the impressive and envelope-pushing TruffleRuby implementation. Chris and I probably met two dozen times without having a real conversation, but my friend Aaron Patterson worked with him: -
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How environment variables make your Ruby test suite flaky
Environment variables can help manage config in any application. But they can also make Ruby test suites flaky. Learn why this happens and how to fix it. -
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Benchmarking your Ruby with time_up
time_up is a new Ruby gem for managing timers to measure your code's performance. -
Working strategically through Rails upgrades
With tools that let us dual boot multiple versions of Rails on the same branch, we can now do Rails upgrades alongside everyday development. But what do we do when we come across a change in Rails that ripples across our application? Take a minute to survey the options in this blog post. -
Using CockroachDB with Rails
CockroachDB is a scalable, highly available database, and you can use it in your Rails apps today. In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps to using CockroachDB with Rails. -
Announcing Standard Ruby 1.0
After two years of community feedback and 80 releases, Standard Ruby hit 1.0 this week. Find out what's new and why there's never been a better time to standardize your app!