My JRuby Saga: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and (Almost) Accept the JVM
How working with JRuby 10 and Rails 8 changed my perspective on the JVM, one reluctant commit at a time.
Posts tagged "rails"
NoFlyList : How NoFlyList Got Cleared for Production
From technical debt in Acts-as-Taggable-On to production-ready NoFlyList: a journey of building cleaner, faster tagging for Rails apps.
Finding the Road Back Home: Building a Clean PostGIS Gem for Rails 8
How I escaped the zoo of monkey patches and built a clean, Rails 8-friendly PostGIS adapter gem that actually works with modern Rails.
NoFlyList: Choosing Between Polymorphic and Model-Specific Tags
Learn when to use polymorphic vs model-specific tags by building a blog platform. Understand the trade-offs and performance implications.
NoFlyList: Custom Tag Screening with NoFlyList
Tag parsing seems simple until you handle real user input. Explore how NoFlyList's custom screening prevents malicious and spam tags.
Rails Version Management with Rails AppVersion
Rails AppVersion provides a standard way to handle version and environment information in Rails apps with best practices for deployment.
NoFlyList: How NoFlyList Optimizes Tag Queries
NoFlyList automatically detects your database type and uses specific optimization strategies to make tag queries blazingly fast.