Writing / Ruby & Rails
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The Ruby community has a DHH problem
The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.
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How to use introspection to discover what is exhausting your ActiveRecord connection pool
A short post on a technique you can use to see what is using your Rails app's ActiveRecord connections.
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Why the advice to have a connection pool the same size as your Puma threads is (probably) wrong for you
Are you seeing ActiveRecord::ConnectionTimeoutErrors in your Rails app? You probably need a bigger connection pool (and here's why).
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Access your command history in IRB and Rails console sessions
This simple configuration option is a powerful way to access and search through your Ruby and Rails console command history.
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Configure default ordering on models with UUID primary keys in ActiveRecord
There's a change coming in Rails 6 that makes it possible to configure the default ordering on ActiveRecord finders, which may be helpful for those using UUIDs for their primary keys.
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Upgrading a large Rails 3 app to Rails 4
Recommendations and guidance on upgrading a large Rails 3 application to Rails 4.
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Performance testing Rails against real data
How do you write performance tests that benchmark your application against real data?
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Default Attributes on Active Record Associations in Rails
A neat little trick that lets you define default values for records created through an association.
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3D Secure in Rails with Active Merchant and Sage Pay (formally ProTX)
Performing 3D Secure authentication in your rails application using the Active Merchant gem and the Sage Pay gateway.
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Disabled option tags in rails forms
A new plugin that enhances the form helpers in Rails so that you can disable option tags.
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Rails gets some engines love
Details on some interesting commits to edge Rails (2.3); now featuring engines!
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Passenger/mod_rails 2.0 RC1
Details on the release of Passenger (AKA mod_rails) 2.0 release candidate 1.
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mod_rails and apache on OS X Leopard
Tips on getting Apache and Passenger (AKA mod_rails) working in your development environment on OS X Leopard.
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Rails plugins and the move to gems
Edge rails and working with plugins from git.