Banish Active Record N+1 Queries with Prosopite

Banish Active Record N+1 Queries with Prosopite

It's probably happened to most Rails devs working on an app of any scale - the app seems a little sluggish on certain screens and you see a bunch of these in your logs: <code>SELECT * FROM ... SELECT * FROM ......

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Good Job is a Good Boy Gem!

Good Job is a Good Boy Gem!

If you're the Acting Ensign Crusher of Rails developers, you've probably heard about background jobs but are a little lost. They're essential for building modern, responsive applications. But let's be honest, the thought of adding another service to your stack can be...

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Pallet Town: Ruby Modules, Mixins & Flying Pikachu?

Pallet Town: Ruby Modules, Mixins & Flying Pikachu?

If you’ve been working with Ruby for more than five minutes, you’ve probably heard about modules. They’re a great way to share behavior across multiple classes without getting tangled in inheritance chains that resemble an over-leveled Zubat spamming Confuse Ray. But...

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Pallet Town: Rails Concerns

Pallet Town: Rails Concerns

As you dive deeper into Ruby on Rails, you might notice your models and controllers starting to bloat with methods and logic. This not only makes your code harder to read but also tougher to maintain. Enter Rails Concerns—a powerful tool to keep your code a little...

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Happy 20th Rails!

Happy 20th Rails!

As many of you might know Rails is now twenty years old; that's two years older than it needs to be to able to be executed by the state or sent to kill people on the other-side of the world in the US, but a year shy of ordering a Sam Adams or pack of Camels....

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