A great lesson in Routing refactoring...

I remember starting out with Ruby and feeling intimidated by the idea of using threads. I hadn't come across them in any of the Ruby code I'd seen so far, and didn't MRI's Global Interpreter Lock mean that writing threaded code would yield marginal b... Read more

rails_panel - Chrome extension for Rails development

When writing applications in Rails, we often have the need to populate small "reference" tables (like credit card types, colors, dog breeds, etc) used in form dropdowns, test data when developing or inserting specific records into the database at dep... Read more

If your Rails app is getting slower, here are some tips to help you make your Active Record queries faster.