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An Introduction to Pattern Matching in Ruby

Let’s start with a brief discussion about pattern matching in Ruby, what it does, and how it can help improve code readability.

Jul 28, 2021

An Introduction to Pattern Matching in Ruby

Jul 28, 2021

The Easiest Way to Monitor Ruby: Automatic Instrumentation

Setting up a proper monitoring overview over your application’s performance is a complex task. Normally, you’d first need to figure out…

Mar 17, 2021

The Easiest Way to Monitor Ruby: Automatic Instrumentation

Mar 17, 2021

Using Service Objects in Ruby on Rails

This article has been modified from its original appearance in Playbook Thirty-nine — A Guide to Shipping Interactive Web Apps with…

Jun 17, 2020

Using Service Objects in Ruby on Rails

Jun 17, 2020

Diving into Ruby’s #dup and #clone

In today’s post, we will look into Ruby’s #dup and #clone. We'll start with a real-life example that triggered this interest. After that…

Feb 26, 2019

Feb 26, 2019

Bindings and Lexical Scope in Ruby

Happy new year, and welcome back to Ruby Magic! In this winter episode, we’ll dive into bindings and scopes. So put on your skis and…

Jan 8, 2019

Bindings and Lexical Scope in Ruby

Jan 8, 2019

Don’t be mean: Statistical means and percentiles 101

Performance monitoring is an important part of running a successful application. One of the most basic ways to tell the performance of…

Dec 4, 2018

Don’t be mean: Statistical means and percentiles 101

Dec 4, 2018

Fibers and Enumerators in Ruby: Turning Blocks Inside Out

Ruby has various ways of performing iteration — loops, blocks and enumerators. Most Ruby programmers are at least familiar with loops and…

Nov 27, 2018

Nov 27, 2018

Understanding Elixir’s GenStages: Querying the Blockchain

In this edition of Elixir Alchemy, we’ll dive into Elixir’s GenStage module. Along the way, we’ll explain backpressure and we’ll write a…

Nov 13, 2018

Nov 13, 2018

Testing Asynchronous Threads in Ruby

Threads and asynchronous environments are initially a bit tricky. Without a good mental model to organize interaction, it is easy to get…

Nov 6, 2018

Nov 6, 2018

Building a Ruby C Extension From Scratch

In this edition of Ruby Magic, we’ll show you how to use code written in C from Ruby. This can be used to optimize performance sensitive…

Oct 30, 2018

Oct 30, 2018

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Error tracking and performance insights for Ruby and Elixir without the silly per-host pricing. From Amsterdam with love.

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