Is Ruby Too Slow for Web Scale?

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Is Ruby Too Slow for Web Scale?

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Is Ruby Too Slow for Web Scale?

Is there such a thing as a fast enough web application? Just how important is performance when choosing a web framework or even a programming language for a web application?

Ruby

A few useful RSpec hints

RSpec is a very expressive testing framework with many great features and helpers to make tests readable. When writing RSpec tests, here are just a few not so obvious hints that could make tests even easier to write, read, and maintain.

Implementing inheritance with params: CreateProducts

In Rails 5 each migration class is inherited from `ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0]`. It looks quite unusual to see that `[5.0]` part at the end of the parent class. In this article I'll describe why we might need it and how it works.

Rails

Fast CSV Report Generation with Postgres in Rails – Red Shift

Let's leverage Postgres for generating fast CSV responses. By using the COPY command, we can stream the results of our complex query directly to STDOUT in CSV format.

Beyond Ruby