Faster than Sinatra? By that much? Hard to believe.
Everyone loves pry.
Specific good advice on rails performance and scale.
There are many of these building blocks. Use this to mock a web service that your system depends on. That way you can test your system without incurring the costs (in money and time) of calling the service.
This can always be a paining the butt. And now that Rails4 uses all this new and badly integrated package management stuff it gets worse. This is a helpful article.
Huge collection of images for your hacking pleasure!
It’s always hard to handle branches. This was a very popular post when it came out.
One in a series of why monoliths are better than microservices
Why microservices are so much worse than monoliths. Yes this is a self serving and self promotional article. But I think he is right.
Foreman is now superseded by overmind, which is better and more awesome. Worth a look.
Good explanation. Although I don’t know exactly what his difference is between a facade, a presenter and a service object.
Build your own... operating system, programming language, web server, etc.
Really good simple explanation of making a multi step form in Rails.
Well I always look at ProgrammableWeb.com but it's becoming more and more cluttered with ads and whatnot. Also there's so much in it, I think it's totally uncharted.
I hope these are all public domain. Can't check them all. But I assume so because it's on Github
We all live in the shell. (Yes, if you're not geekish that sentence makes no sense). And you can always learn a little more and some special trick to make your day. Here's another reference.
This kind of thing doesn’t bother me too much. But I know certain people are totally freaked out by it.
We've all been there. You're clicking around your Rails application, and it just isn't as snappy as it used to be. You start searching for a quick-fix and find a lot of talk about caching. Take your existing app, add some caching, and voila, a performance boost with minimal code changes. However,...
Another good article about Python modularity
Linked is a good addendum to explaining the mysteries of python packages and imports. I’ve read so much about this so many times and still I continue to stub my toe on it!