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Practical Ruby garbage collection tuning for Rails apps. Real RUBY_GC_* environment variables, before/after benchmarks, and the settings that reduced our memory usage by 30% in production.
How to use Ruby's Fiber Scheduler interface for non-blocking I/O in Ruby 3.3+. Real benchmarks, practical examples, and production patterns that actually work.
How to build Rails service objects that stay maintainable. Real patterns, naming conventions, error handling, and testing strategies from production codebases.
How to set up authentication in Rails 8 using the new built-in generator. Step-by-step guide covering sessions, password resets, and when you still need Devise.
A practical comparison of Ruby's Struct and Data classes for building value objects. When to use each, performance differences, and real patterns from production Ruby 3.2+ code.
How we built a multi-model AI image generation platform with Rails — workflow engines, real-time processing, and the architecture decisions that made it work.
Enable strict loading in Rails 6.1+ to detect and prevent N+1 queries at development time. Configuration options, per-model and global setup, and handling the exceptions that pop up.
A practical breakdown of using AI coding assistants (Copilot, Cursor, Claude) in Rails projects. What tasks they handle well, where they fail, and how to structure prompts for Rails-specific code.
How to use Ruby Ractors for true parallel CPU-bound work in Ruby 3.3+. Practical examples, benchmarks, and pitfalls from production use.
Every startup hits the same inflection point. Your Rails app works, your first customers are paying, and suddenly everything is on fire. The deploy process is “whoever remembers the steps.”...
A complete GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline for Rails: parallel tests, service containers, lint-first strategy, and deployment. Under 5 minutes, battle-tested.
Ruby pattern matching with case/in replaces nested conditionals for destructuring hashes, validating API responses, and parsing webhooks. Practical examples for Ruby 3.0+.
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