Ruby Magic

Ruby Magic is our special email series where we dive deep into all things Ruby. If you are interested in learning more about concurrency, webservers, memory allocations and garbage collection, you'll love this.

How to Use Mixins and Modules in Your Ruby on Rails Application

By Cleiviane Costa on Jan 13

Find out how to create and mix modules into other classes and discover what are the benefits from using them in a Ruby on Rails application.

Top 5 Ruby Blog Posts in 2020 from AppSignal

By Milica Maksimović on Dec 16

Check out the most appreciated Ruby posts on our blog in 2020.

Setting Up AppSignal Monitoring for a Ruby on Rails Application

By Milica Maksimović, Stefan Verkerk on Dec 10

Find out how to integrate AppSignal into a Rails application in our latest video.

Building a Multi-tenant Ruby on Rails App With Subdomains

By Paweł Dąbrowski on Dec 2

Discover different approaches to multitenancy and build a simple app with multiple tenants where each tenant will have its subdomain.

Ruby on Rails Model Patterns and Anti-patterns

By Nikola Đuza on Nov 18

If you're struggling with models, this blog post is for you. We will quickly go through the process of putting your models on a diet and finish strongly with some things to avoid when writing migrations.

Structuring Monitoring Data in Monolithic Applications With Namespaces

By Tomas Fernandez on Nov 4

Namespaces help you make sense of what’s happening in your application. Knowing how they work is especially useful for large monolithic projects.

Monitoring Any System with StatsD and AppSignal's Standalone Agent

By Tomas Fernandez on Sep 23

To extend monitoring everywhere and have all data in a single place, check out our standalone agent.

Rails Concerns: To Concern Or Not To Concern

By Nikola Đuza on Sep 16

Should you be concerned about Rails concerns?

Introduction to Ruby on Rails Patterns and Anti-patterns

By Nikola Đuza on Aug 5

Dig into the basics of design patterns and anti-patterns.

Scaling Queue Workers Efficiently with AppSignal Metrics

By Josh Beckman on Jul 8

Let's use some simple math and performance data to find our optimal worker count, based on the work waiting in the queue.

Using Service Objects in Ruby on Rails

By Nicholaus Haskins on Jun 17

Find out what service objects are and why you should use them.

Dissecting Rails Migrations

By Prathamesh Sonpatki on Apr 14

Let's break down a migration process and find out how to write an effective migration.

More articles

Apr 8 2020 The Citadel Architecture at AppSignal
Apr 1 2020 Changing the Approach to Debugging in Ruby with TracePoint
Mar 18 2020 Facade Pattern in Rails for Performance and Maintainability
Mar 4 2020 Building a Rails App With Multiple Subdomains
Feb 12 2020 Getting Started With System Tests in Rails With Minitest
Jan 15 2020 Pros and Cons of Using structure.sql in Your Ruby on Rails Application
Dec 17 2019 Top 10 AppSignal Blog Posts in 2019
Nov 29 2019 Configurable Ruby Modules: The Module Builder Pattern
Sep 24 2019 Ruby Templating: Baking an Interpreter
Aug 27 2019 Type Checking in Ruby — Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self
Jul 30 2019 Digging Deeper into Ruby Templating: The Parser
Jul 2 2019 Brewing our own Template Lexer in Ruby
May 28 2019 Inside Enumeration in Ruby
Apr 30 2019 Ruby's Hidden Gems: Delegator and Forwardable
Apr 2 2019 Learning by building, a Background Processing System in Ruby
Mar 5 2019 Ruby's Hidden Gems, StringScanner
Feb 5 2019 Unraveling Classes, Instances and Metaclasses in Ruby
Jan 8 2019 Bindings and Lexical Scope in Ruby
Nov 27 2018 Fibers and Enumerators in Ruby: Turning Blocks Inside Out
Oct 30 2018 Building a Ruby C Extension From Scratch
Oct 2 2018 The Magic of Class-level Instance Variables
Sep 4 2018 Closures in Ruby: Blocks, Procs and Lambdas
Aug 7 2018 Changing the Way Ruby Creates Objects
Jul 26 2018 Ruby Magic Summer Special: The Best of AppSignal Academy
Jul 10 2018 Under the Hood: “Slurping” and Streaming Files in Ruby
May 29 2018 Ruby's magical Enumerable module
Feb 27 2018 Benchmarking Ruby Code
Feb 20 2018 Syntactic sugar methods in Ruby
Aug 1 2017 A look at how Ruby interprets your code
Jun 6 2017 Concurrency Deep Dive: Event loops
Apr 18 2017 Concurrency Deep Dive: Multi-threading
Mar 7 2017 Concurrency Deep Dive: Multi-process
Jan 24 2017 Running Rack: How Ruby HTTP servers run Rails apps
Dec 21 2016 Escaping characters in Ruby
Nov 23 2016 Building a 30 line HTTP server in Ruby
Oct 18 2016 Rescuing Exceptions in Ruby: A Primer
Jul 28 2016 Introduction to Garbage Collection (Part II)
Jul 12 2016 Introduction to Garbage Collection (Part I)
Mar 17 2016 Mastering Concurrency

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