Issue 460 - A Q and A with Noah Gibbs, Ruby benchmarker extraordinaire (20)

Valvat: Validates European VAT Numbers — If you’re working on a billing system that involves issuing invoices to European companies, this sort of library is invaluable (we use it ourselves!)

TTY::Box: Draw Frames and Boxes in Your Terminal Window — Staying on a TTY/terminal theme, we’re getting some serious DOS-era UI vibes from this :-)

QueryTrack: Find Time-Consuming ActiveRecord Database Queries — Can be used with Slack to provide automated notifications with backtraces, raw SQL, time duration, etc.

Where Does Rails Spend Its Time? — Noah (who is the subject of our first Ruby Weekly interview - more on that below) profiles Rails Ruby Bench to see where his benchmark is spending most of its time. Unsurprisingly, it involves setting up all those ActiveRecord objects we use.

Ruby on Whales: Dockerizing Ruby and Rails Development — There a boatload (Ha!) of articles on ‘dockerizing’ Rails apps, but this one is very good and results in a nice setup.

Awesome Ruby: A Curated List of Ruby Libraries and Tools — Each year or so, we like to link to this epic, categorized collection of Ruby goodies. It continues to be updated several times a month with new entries added and obsolete entries removed.

Fight Poverty by Doing What You Love — We are a Rotterdam based, fast growing crowdfunding platform. Our site is built on a modern stack by a small passionate team.

Reading Ruby Metaprogramming Inside Devise — Walking through how devise_for adds routes and helpers to your Rails app using that technique you either love or hate: metaprogramming.

Leaky Constants — A small thing, but did you know if you declare a constant in a block body it becomes a top-level constant?

Learn How to Build Chat with Ruby on Rails and Dialogflow — Learn the inner workings of Stream Chat paired with Ruby on Rails and Dialogflow with this in-depth technical tutorial.

Demystifying RSpec's DSL with Parentheses? — Just a simple way to wrap your head around RSpec’s often magical seeming API. (I often do this with complex boolean logic as well, just to clarify what’s happening.)

Spinning Up a 'Rails API'-Powered JSON API in Minutes — A very entry level tutorial, but useful if you haven’t played with Rails’ API-only functionality yet.

Fetching Millions of Rows from PostgreSQL in Rails — If you want to do it quickly, you’ll need to lean on raw_connection and send your own query and stream the results from the database.

Find A Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in dev roles and is completely free for job seekers.

eBook: Best Practices for Optimizing Postgres Query Performance — Learn how to get a 3x performance improvement on your Postgres database and 500x reduced data loaded from disk in this free pganalyze eBook.

Level Up Your Knowledge of Ruby's Exception System — Ruby's exception system is more powerful than many people realize. This book shows you how to get the most from it.