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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 69 high-quality Ruby articles to date.
- What's New in Rails 7
- 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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