Ruby Magic Newsletter
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In our Ruby Magic email series, we share tips & tricks about performance optimization, monitoring, and observability for your Ruby apps.
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We’ve written 167 high-quality Ruby articles to date.
- Rack for Ruby: Socket Hijacking
- Optimize Database Performance in Ruby on Rails and ActiveRecord
- The Basics of Rack for Ruby
- What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
- Measuring the Impact of Feature Flags in Ruby on Rails with AppSignal
- Ruby’s hidden gems: Sorbet
- Ruby on Rails 7.1: Partial Strict Locals and Their Gotchas
- Squash Your Ruby and Rails Bugs Faster
- An Introduction to HTTP Caching in Ruby On Rails
- An Introduction to Nix for Ruby Developers
- Setting Up Custom Metrics with Effective Alerts for a Ruby App in AppSignal
- What's Coming in Ruby on Rails 7.2: Database Features in Active Record
- An Introduction to Auth0 for Ruby on Rails
- Debugging in Ruby with Debug
- Monitor the Performance of Your Ruby on Rails Application Using AppSignal
- How to Use Tailwind CSS for Your Ruby On Rails Project
- Getting Started: Your Ruby On Rails App Hosted On DigitalOcean With AppSignal
- Five Things to Avoid in Ruby
- Creating Forms in Ruby on Rails with Simple Form
- Debugging in Ruby with pry-byebug
- AnyCable for Ruby on Rails: How Does it Improve over Action Cable?
- Should You Use Ruby on Rails or Hanami?
- Handling Exceptions in Grape for Ruby
- Good Database Migration Practices for Your Ruby on Rails App using Strong Migrations
- Turbo Streaming Modals in Ruby on Rails
- Active Record or Sequel: Which Best Fits The Needs of Your Ruby App?
- Hotwire Modals in Ruby on Rails with Stimulus and Turbo Frames
- Full-Text Search for Ruby on Rails with Litesearch
- A Deep Dive Into RSpec Tests in Ruby on Rails
- Behaviour Driven Development in Ruby with RSpec
- Speed Up Your Ruby on Rails Application with LiteCache
- Keep your Ruby Code Maintainable with Draper
- AppSignal’s Top 5 Ruby Posts in 2023
- Stream Updates to Your Users with LiteCable for Ruby on Rails
- How to Use Shoulda Matchers with RSpec for Ruby on Rails
- Keep Your Ruby Code Maintainable with Money-Rails
- Shaping the Future of Ruby and Kafka Together with rdkafka-ruby
- Handle Incoming Webhooks with LiteJob for Ruby on Rails
- A Deep Dive Into LiteDB for Ruby on Rails
- Advanced Usages of Action Policy for Ruby on Rails
- Expressive Ruby and Rails: Communicate Effectively With Your Code
- Using Action Policy for a Ruby on Rails App: The Basics
- An Introduction to LiteStack for Ruby on Rails
- An Introduction to Sidekiq for Ruby on Rails
- An Introduction to RuboCop for Ruby on Rails
- Secure Your Ruby App with JSON Web Tokens
- Advanced Usages of Devise for Rails
- An Introduction to Metaprogramming in Ruby
- How to Delegate Methods in Ruby
- An Introduction to Devise for Ruby on Rails
- Keep Your Ruby App Secure with Bundler
- An Introduction to Lambdas in Ruby
- Setting Up Business Logic with DCI in Rails
- How to Use Sinatra to Build a Ruby Application
- Manage Your Ruby Logs Like a Pro
- Organize Business Logic in Your Ruby on Rails Application
- Integrate and Troubleshoot Inbound Emails with Action Mailbox in Rails
- How to Load Code in Ruby
- Audit Logging in Ruby and Rails
- How to Use the rodauth-omniauth Gem in Ruby
- Diving into Custom Exceptions in Ruby
- Authorization Gems in Ruby: Pundit and CanCanCan
- A Generalized User-local Container for UI State in Kredis
- Making the Most of Your Logs in Rails
- Storing Ephemeral UI State with Kredis for Rails
- What's New in Rails 7.1
- A Guide to Rails View Helpers
- Calling Ruby Methods in C: Avoid Memory Leaks
- How to Parse Arguments in Your Ruby C Extension
- Create a Business Language for a Rails Application
- AppSignal’s Top 5 Ruby posts in 2022
- A Guide to Memoization in Ruby
- Database Performance Optimization and Scaling in Rails
- A First Look at Hanami 2 for Ruby
- System Notifications with Noticed and CableReady in Rails
- How to Scale Ruby on Rails Applications
- Build a Table Editor with Trix and Turbo Frames in Rails
- Improve Code in Your Ruby Application with RubyCritic
- Security Best Practices for Your Rails Application
- Debugging in Ruby with AppSignal
- JIT Compilers for Ruby and Rails: An Overview
- Monitor Ruby Application Performance with Magic Dashboards
- An Introduction to Ractors in Ruby
- A Deep Dive into Memory Leaks in Ruby
- Connect a Ruby on Rails App with React in a Monolith
- How to Track Down Memory Leaks in Ruby
- Deploy Your Ruby on Rails App Using Capistrano
- Get Started with Hotwire in Your Ruby on Rails App
- State Machines in Ruby: An Introduction
- Add Feature Flags in Ruby on Rails with Flipper
- An Introduction to Polymorphism in Ruby on Rails
- Using Scientist to Refactor Critical Ruby on Rails Code
- Bootstrapping with Ruby on Rails Generators and Templates
- 5 Tips to Design Ruby on Rails Transactions the Right Way
- The Perils of Parallel Testing in Ruby on Rails
- Import Maps Under the Hood in Rails 7
- Delayed Job vs. Sidekiq: Which Is Better?
- Test and Optimize Your Ruby on Rails Database Performance
- Next Level Ruby on Rails Application Monitoring with AppSignal
- Ruby on Rails Application Monitoring with AppSignal
- Practical Garbage Collection Tuning in Ruby
- Optimistic Locking in Rails REST APIs
- How to Reduce Memory Bloat in Ruby
- Responsible Monkeypatching in Ruby
- Ruby's Hidden Gems: Bullet
- An Introduction to Pattern Matching in Ruby
- General Ruby on Rails Problems and Takeaways
- Performance, Stress, and Load Tests in Rails
- Three Ways To Avoid Duplicate Sidekiq Jobs
- Linting Ruby Code
- Ruby on Rails Controller Patterns and Anti-patterns
- Troubleshooting ActiveRecord Performance
- Using Webpacker in Your Ruby on Rails Application — a Deep Dive
- Ruby on Rails View Patterns and Anti-patterns
- RBS: A New Ruby 3 Typing Language in Action
- How to Use Mixins and Modules in Your Ruby on Rails Application
- Top 5 Ruby Blog Posts in 2020 from AppSignal
- Setting Up AppSignal Monitoring for a Ruby on Rails Application
- Building a Multi-tenant Ruby on Rails App With Subdomains
- Ruby on Rails Model Patterns and Anti-patterns
- Structuring Monitoring Data in Monolithic Applications With Namespaces
- Monitoring Any System with StatsD and AppSignal's Standalone Agent
- Rails Concerns: To Concern Or Not To Concern
- Introduction to Ruby on Rails Patterns and Anti-patterns
- Scaling Queue Workers Efficiently with AppSignal Metrics
- Using Service Objects in Ruby on Rails
- Dissecting Rails Migrations
- The Citadel Architecture at AppSignal
- Changing the Approach to Debugging in Ruby with TracePoint
- Facade Pattern in Rails for Performance and Maintainability
- Building a Rails App With Multiple Subdomains
- Getting Started With System Tests in Rails With Minitest
- Pros and Cons of Using structure.sql in Your Ruby on Rails Application
- Top 10 AppSignal Blog Posts in 2019
- Configurable Ruby Modules: The Module Builder Pattern
- Ruby Templating: Baking an Interpreter
- Type Checking in Ruby — Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self
- Digging Deeper into Ruby Templating: The Parser
- Brewing our own Template Lexer in Ruby
- Inside Enumeration in Ruby
- Ruby's Hidden Gems -Delegator and Forwardable
- Learning by building, a Background Processing System in Ruby
- Ruby's Hidden Gems, StringScanner
- Unraveling Classes, Instances and Metaclasses in Ruby
- Bindings and Lexical Scope in Ruby
- Fibers and Enumerators in Ruby - Turning Blocks Inside Out
- Building a Ruby C Extension From Scratch
- The Magic of Class-level Instance Variables
- Closures in Ruby: Blocks, Procs and Lambdas
- Changing the Way Ruby Creates Objects
- Ruby Magic Summer Special: The Best of AppSignal Academy
- Under the Hood: “Slurping” and Streaming Files in Ruby
- Ruby's magical Enumerable module
- ActiveRecord performance: the N+1 queries antipattern
- Benchmarking Ruby Code
- Syntactic sugar methods in Ruby
- A look at how Ruby interprets your code
- Concurrency Deep Dive: Event loops
- Concurrency Deep Dive: Multi-threading
- Concurrency Deep Dive: Multi-process
- Running Rack: How Ruby HTTP servers run Rails apps
- Escaping characters in Ruby
- Building a 30 line HTTP server in Ruby
- Rescuing Exceptions in Ruby: A Primer
- Introduction to Garbage Collection (Part II)
- Introduction to Garbage Collection (Part I)
- Mastering Concurrency
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