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A Rubyist's guide to big-O notation
Big-O notation gives you insight into scaling. Uncover the meaning of things like O(N^2) and learn how to use these concepts to speed up your apps.
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By Starr Horne
- Jun 25, 2025
Managing PostgreSQL table partitioning in Ruby
PostgreSQL table partitioning is a great way to improve database bloat but is hard to manage. Honeybadger's pgpartitionmanager gem can help you maintain partitions.
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By Benjamin Curtis
- May 16, 2025
Is No PaaS really a good idea for Rails?
Rails 8 promises to make it easier to deploy and host Rails apps, no-PaaS required. Jump in with us to see where it delivers and where it falls short.
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By Jeffery Morhous
- Apr 14, 2025
Cool Ruby regex tricks
Ruby supports using regular expressions in lots of interesting ways that go beyond String#match. Check out this article to learn some uncommon Ruby regex tricks.
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By Starr Horne
- Apr 9, 2025
How to use Pry to debug Ruby apps
Understanding how a program behaves given certain inputs is hard enough for experienced developers. This article explores how to use Pry to debug Ruby apps.
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By Melissa Williams
- Apr 2, 2025
Going deep on UUIDs and ULIDs
A chance conversation led me to the realization that the world of unique identifiers is larger and more wondrous than I ever could have imagined. In this post we discuss five types of UUIDs and their upstart cousin, the ULID. We explore what makes each of them special and when they may be particularly useful.
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By Starr Horne
- Mar 19, 2025
Better stability with Rails load testing in Apache JMeter
Every Rails app has a breaking point. Follow along and learn how to test your application's performance under load with the Apache JMeter's Rails load testing.
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By Milap Neupane
- Mar 14, 2025
How to use Solid Cache in Rails
Learn how the database-backed Solid Cache gem can surprisingly outperform traditional memory-based caches in Rails.
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By Jeffery Morhous
- Mar 10, 2025
Understanding the insertion sort algorithm in Ruby
There are lots of ways to sort data. Insertion sort is particularly interesting because it sorts the data in place and is pretty easy to understand. While most of us just use the #sort method, interviewers still love to ask questions about sorting algorithms and related topics like Big-O notation. In this post, you'll learn not only how insertion sort works but also how to implement it yourself in Ruby.
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By Julie Kent
- Mar 5, 2025
Rails async queries by example
Rails' 7+ released the ability to utilize multiple threads out of the box which can drastically improve the performance of your application. Read this article to learn how Rails async queries work and when to use them.
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By Julie Kent
- Feb 12, 2025
How Honeybadger migrated from Sidekiq to Karafka
Honeybadger recently migrated our background job processing from Sidekiq to Karafka. Dig in to see what we learned.
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By Roel Bondoc
- Jan 8, 2025
What's new in Ruby 3.4
From frozen string literals to default block parameters, Ruby 3.4 brings some nice improvements and changes. Jump in to learn what's new.
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By Jeffery Morhous
- Dec 16, 2024
What's new in Rails 8
The latest release of Rails includes a ton of new options and defaults that making shipping applications without a PaaS even easier. Dig in to learn what's new in Rails 8.
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By Jeffery Morhous
- Dec 12, 2024
Secure custom domains with Caddy
If you want to host custom domains for customers in your SaaS, you'll need to handle both DNS and SSL. Fortunately, Caddy can help with both. Read this article to learn how.
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By Benjamin Curtis
- Dec 4, 2024
A practical GitHub Actions pipeline example with Rails
Continuous Integration is a vital tool for developing software, and GitHub Actions makes it easy to add to almost any project. Dig into this practical GitHub Actions pipeline example and learn how to setup Continuous Integration for a Ruby on Rails project.
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By Jeffery Morhous
- Oct 28, 2024
The ultimate guide to Sidekiq scheduled jobs
Unlock the power of background processing in Ruby and Rails with Sidekiq. Learn how to effortlessly create, schedule, and manage background jobs with and without ActiveJob.
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By Jeffery Morhous
- Oct 21, 2024
How Solid Queue works under the hood
Maybe you've used Solid Queue already, but how well do you understand it? In this article, we'll follow the journey of a Solid Queue job from enqueue to completion.
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By Jeffery Morhous
- Oct 7, 2024
A practical guide to web scraping with Ruby
Web scraping with Ruby opens up a world of possibilities. Would you like to get a text message when something gets restocked online? Dig into this article, where we'll solve a practical shopping problem in Ruby with web scraping!
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By Jeffery Morhous
- Sep 30, 2024
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