Ruby on Rails - The Miners

Migrating from Paperclip to ActiveStorage
My first challenge as an intern

by Leonardo NegreirosNovember 7, 2018May 29, 2023

First of all, I’m no expert in programming. In fact, I started with Ruby on Rails about one and a half month ago with the …

Crystal by Numbers
Benchmarking Kemal, Ruby on Rails, and Sinatra

by Dmitry RochaApril 28, 2017May 29, 2023

TL;DR Kemal delivers 8.3x more requests than Rails and 1.5x than Sinatra, using only 15MiB (against 110MiB in Rails and 47MiB in Sinatra) and 56% …

Zero to Up and Running a Rails Project only using Docker

by Dmitry RochaMarch 27, 2017

Disclaimer: this post is based on Quickstart: Compose and Rails — Docker the main difference is that I will run everything with my own user …

Refactoring Ruby: From Subclass to Registry
From developing a solution to gradually improving it by listening to the pain

by Thiago Araújo SilvaMarch 23, 2017May 29, 2023

My team was given a particularly laborious task: implement responsive images throughout a legacy Rails application. Back then, the app was sending disproportionally large image …

Halving Response Times: Lessons Learned

by Renato Higor Do NascimentoMarch 17, 2017

Response times under 100 ms are capable of lightening anyone’s heart. It’s even better when you reach that milestone as a side effect of some …

Towards Minimal, Idiomatic, and Performant Ruby Code
Debunking some popular Ruby idioms

by Thiago Araújo SilvaMarch 6, 2017May 29, 2023

I try to embrace a particular way of working with code: it should be minimal, idiomatic, and performant by default. Sometimes it is necessary to …

Deploy de App Ruby on Rails em VPS

by Dmitry RochaFebruary 7, 2017

PaaS ou VPS? Ultimamente tenho preferido serviços PaaS como o Heroku, mas muitos clientes preferem uma VPS na maioria das vezes pelo preço fixo, mas …

Cracking the Box Open with Module Factories
About the lesser-known Ruby Module Factories

by Thiago Araújo SilvaDecember 19, 2016

Metaprogramming is one of Ruby’s most powerful, intriguing and hard-to-grasp features. Ruby has a deep kind of truth that I could not yet find in …

Go Full Stack Rails — The Frontend Part 3
A pipeline of functional transformations

by Thiago Araújo SilvaDecember 12, 2016May 30, 2023

Although not mandatory, you can catch up with previous episodes if you haven’t already: The Backend Part 1: Working on the backend, exploring requirements and …

Go Full Stack Rails — The Frontend Part 2
About ES6 Promises and improving Promise-based specs

by Thiago Araújo SilvaNovember 30, 2016May 30, 2023

Welcome! Each part of this blog post series drills down into a bunch of pertinent details, aiming to form the big picture of a clean, …