I upgraded a bunch of sites to Rails 7.1 recently and the ones deployed on Heroku started to show some massively increased memory usage: How could my app that was using ~128mb of memory be using four times as much with Rails 7.1? Well, its turns out that there was a change made to the default Puma config to make use of all available co...
For many years Nginx has been a default solution to serve as a reverse proxy for Rails applications. However, with the release of Kamal, the Rails community opened Traefik as a new reverse proxy solution. Within my 15 years of experience with Rails, I created an almost perfect configuration for Nginx that migrated through all my projects. With Traefik, I had to start from scratch.
One of the goals of Pika,
the happy blogging software that we recently launched,
is to help you find your own place on the internet.
Along with a nice place on the internet, when you share links to your blog we want them to represent your internet home,
which you've likely taken a little time to make just so.
Sharing your blog on social networks, text messages, Slack, or wherever should be an experience
that makes you smile, and that's why we built
custom social preview images for your blog.
But how did we do it?
This is the first post in the Campfire deep dive series where we explore the first ONCE product from 37signals to learn and extract useful patterns, ideas, and best practices. This post explores the direct method in the Rails Router that lets you define custom URL helpers for your application.
To obtain good performance and low latency for any user accessing our site, we often use CDNs to serve our static assets. This article shows how to do the same for ActiveStorage attachments.
In this article, we will look at the different strategies that you can apply to improve the performance of the application while not focusing on where to apply these strategies.
The link_to helper in Rails creates an anchor element with the given URL and options. Although the helper has a simple task, it can be used in quite a few ways, and in this article, I will try to cover most of them. Let’s start with creating a simple link:
Observability is becoming a standard. Cloud observability providers deliver a high-end solutions for the storage and visualization of the telemetry data. Yet, application owners may consider an entirely in-house approach. Here is how you can achieve it for a Ruby on Rails app.
