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How to Reduce Memory Bloat in Ruby

By Kumar Harsh on Sep 21

Memory bloat can be a serious issue in Ruby. This article explores two common causes of memory bloat and how you can overcome them.

Responsible Monkeypatching in Ruby

By Cameron Dutro on Aug 24

Monkeypatching can be a great way to improve existing code if used right. Let's find out how.

Ruby's Hidden Gems: Bullet

By Fabio Perrella on Aug 11

Let's dive into Bullet and find out how it can help you identify some database-related problems.

An Introduction to Pattern Matching in Ruby

By Pulkit Goyal on Jul 28

Find out about pattern matching in Ruby, what it does, and how it can help improve code readability.

General Ruby on Rails Problems and Takeaways

By Nikola Đuza on Jul 7

In this last part of the Rails Patterns and Anti-patterns series, I'll be going over the most common problems I've encountered while building and shipping Ruby on Rails applications.

How to Monitor and Optimize Your Database Performance: A Practical Guide

By Stefan Verkerk on Jun 30

In this post, we'll dive into the database part of your architecture to show how you can monitor and optimize your database performance.

Performance, Stress, and Load Tests in Rails

By Paweł Dąbrowski on Jun 9

Let's jump into theoretical and practical aspects of performance testing in Rails.

Three Ways To Avoid Duplicate Sidekiq Jobs

By Nikola Đuza on May 12

Sidekiq is used to handle background processing. Whatever your background jobs may be, you'll eventually run into duplicate jobs. Let's see how to de-duplicate them.

Linting Ruby Code

By Miguel Palhas on Apr 28

Let's take a look at what linting is and a few problems that come with it.

Ruby on Rails Controller Patterns and Anti-patterns

By Nikola Đuza on Apr 14

In this part of the series on Rails patterns and anti-patterns, we are going to analyze the final part of the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern — the Controller.

The Easiest Way to Monitor Ruby: Automatic Instrumentation

By Milica Maksimović, Tom de Bruijn on Mar 17

Automatic instrumentation enables AppSignal app to digest, process, monitor, and show you the graphs and dashboards you need the most.

Announcing AppSignal for Ruby Gem 3.0!

By Tom de Bruijn on Mar 1

We're very happy to present you with version 3.0 of AppSignal for Ruby - a new major release for the Ruby gem. 🎉

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Feb 24 2021 Troubleshooting ActiveRecord Performance
Feb 17 2021 Using Webpacker in Your Ruby on Rails Application — a Deep Dive
Feb 10 2021 Ruby on Rails View Patterns and Anti-patterns
Jan 27 2021 RBS: A New Ruby 3 Typing Language in Action
Jan 13 2021 How to Use Mixins and Modules in Your Ruby on Rails Application
Jan 6 2021 Microservices Monitoring: Using Namespaces for Data Structuring
Dec 16 2020 Top 5 Ruby Blog Posts in 2020 from AppSignal
Dec 15 2020 New Magic Dashboard for Ruby on Rails: ActionMailer
Dec 10 2020 Setting Up AppSignal Monitoring for a Ruby on Rails Application
Dec 2 2020 Building a Multi-tenant Ruby on Rails App With Subdomains
Nov 18 2020 Ruby on Rails Model Patterns and Anti-patterns
Nov 4 2020 Structuring Monitoring Data in Monolithic Applications With Namespaces
Sep 23 2020 Monitoring Any System with StatsD and AppSignal's Standalone Agent
Sep 16 2020 Rails Concerns: To Concern Or Not To Concern
Aug 5 2020 Introduction to Ruby on Rails Patterns and Anti-patterns
Jul 8 2020 Scaling Queue Workers Efficiently with AppSignal Metrics
Jun 17 2020 Using Service Objects in Ruby on Rails
Apr 14 2020 Dissecting Rails Migrations
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 22 2020 Rails is Fast: Optimize Your View Performance
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
Oct 29 2019 Sidekiq Optimization and Monitoring
Sep 24 2019 Ruby Templating: Baking an Interpreter
Sep 3 2019 The Inherited Hook Method in Ruby - and More Parenting Lessons
Aug 27 2019 Type Checking in Ruby — Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self
Aug 20 2019 Cleaning Up Ruby Strings 13 Times Faster
Jul 30 2019 Digging Deeper into Ruby Templating: The Parser
Jul 2 2019 Brewing our own Template Lexer in Ruby
Jun 11 2019 The Ultimate Checklist to Properly Internationalize Devise
May 28 2019 Inside Enumeration in Ruby
May 7 2019 Up the Ancestor Chain with method_missing
Apr 30 2019 Ruby's Hidden Gems: Delegator and Forwardable
Apr 23 2019 Kafka and Ruby, a Sidekiq Lovestory
Apr 2 2019 Learning by building, a Background Processing System in Ruby
Mar 26 2019 Object Marshalling in Ruby
Mar 5 2019 Ruby's Hidden Gems, StringScanner
Feb 26 2019 Diving into Ruby's #dup and #clone
Feb 5 2019 Unraveling Classes, Instances and Metaclasses in Ruby
Jan 29 2019 An instrumental intro to GraphQL with Ruby
Jan 8 2019 Bindings and Lexical Scope in Ruby
Dec 4 2018 Don't be mean: Statistical means and percentiles 101
Nov 27 2018 Fibers and Enumerators in Ruby: Turning Blocks Inside Out
Nov 6 2018 Testing Asynchronous Threads in Ruby
Oct 30 2018 Building a Ruby C Extension From Scratch
Oct 23 2018 The innards of a RubyGem
Oct 9 2018 ActiveRecord vs. Ecto Part Two
Oct 2 2018 The Magic of Class-level Instance Variables
Sep 28 2018 ActiveRecord vs. Ecto Part One
Sep 25 2018 #to_s or #to_str? Explicitly casting vs. implicitly coercing types in Ruby
Sep 11 2018 Differences Between #nil?, #empty?, #blank?, and #present?
Sep 4 2018 Closures in Ruby: Blocks, Procs and Lambdas
Aug 28 2018 Push and Pub/Sub in Ruby
Aug 14 2018 Rails Collection Caching
Aug 7 2018 Changing the Way Ruby Creates Objects
Jul 31 2018 Generating Random Numbers in Ruby
Jul 26 2018 Ruby Magic Summer Special: The Best of AppSignal Academy
Jul 17 2018 JavaScript-sprinkled Rails Applications
Jul 10 2018 Under the Hood: “Slurping” and Streaming Files in Ruby
Jul 3 2018 Custom Exceptions in Ruby
Jun 19 2018 Caching counters with ActiveRecord's counter caches
Jun 5 2018 Ruby's redo, retry and next keywords
May 29 2018 Ruby's magical Enumerable module
May 23 2018 Speeding up your app’s navigation with Turbolinks
May 16 2018 Ensuring execution, retrying failures and reraising exceptions in Ruby
May 1 2018 Client-side caching in Rails: conditional GET requests
Apr 24 2018 ActiveRecord performance: the N+1 queries antipattern
Apr 17 2018 Rails' built-in cache stores: an overview
Apr 10 2018 Rescuing exceptions in Ruby
Apr 3 2018 Russian doll caching in Rails
Mar 28 2018 Understanding system load and load averages
Mar 20 2018 Fragment caching in Rails
Mar 13 2018 Exceptions in Ruby
Feb 27 2018 Benchmarking Ruby Code
Feb 21 2018 Inspecting data in Ruby
Feb 20 2018 Syntactic sugar methods in Ruby
Feb 13 2018 Debugging exceptions in Rails
Feb 6 2018 Reading and understanding Ruby stack traces
Nov 13 2017 Track cache hits with custom metrics
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
Nov 23 2016 Building a 30 line HTTP server in Ruby
Oct 18 2016 Rescuing Exceptions in Ruby: A Primer
Aug 23 2016 How to tame your growing users table
Jul 4 2016 Monitor MongoDB (query) load with Custom Metrics
Mar 21 2016 Upgrading to Mongoid 5 / mongo-ruby-driver
Jan 26 2016 How to use custom metrics

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