
April 2021


simple full text search using postgres on rails (Example)
If you are doing full text search using Postgres, this could be game changing

How do I know whether my Rails app is thread-safe or not?
Quite good explanation of thread safety in Ruby apps
textacular/textacular: Textacular exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacularwill extend ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun!
This really works! I've been experimenting with full text search in postgres with Heroku and there's a fair amount of documentation around.

Shift Left to Make Testing Fast and Reliable - Azure DevOps
Back in September 2014, we were three years into our cloud cadence. And we were still running our testing the way we had tested before moving to the cloud. We were trying to do things faster, we were trying to optimize our automation, but we were struggling.


Optimizing Database Performance in Rails
Good tips on basic dB optimization. Especially for Heroku and Postgres

Approximating “Prettier for Ruby” with RuboCop
Another interesting article about formatting and plugins
Why OO Sucks
Joe Armstrong is a famous person in Erlang circles. He passes away yesterday.

Dockerize the multi-services application for local development
Combining multiple services in a container makes local development easier.

Microsoft Launches Bosque: An Open Source Programming Language
Interesting to see a brand new language come out of research.

How I configure VSCode for Everything
Ok there are a million posts like this but this one had a few ideas I wanted to remember

10 insanely useful Git commands you wish existed – and their alternatives
A whole bunch of very useful cases and how to do them with git.

How I Almost Destroyed a £50 million War Plane and The Normalisation of Deviance.
Unusual article not about computers, still with some excellent lessons.

How to Schedule Cron Jobs in Ruby With the Whenever Gem
Useful gem to have in your toolbox.

Rails 6: B-Sides and Rarities — Martian Chronicles
Another nice trip through upgrades to Rails for 6.0

Instrumenting Ruby on Rails with Prometheus
Pretty cool way to instrument rails code. Not sure how performant it is though.
