#383: Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 383 — January 25, 2018 Aaron Patterson Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby Aaron Patterson is working on a compacting garbage collector for Ruby and in this post he explains the challenges involved. Dean Nasseri Fir: A New, 'Friendly' Ruby REPL An interesting alternative to IRB and Pry that analyzes input character-by-character on the fly to do things like automatic suggestions and indenting. Jared Norman You Can't Save Everyone: Some Exceptions Should Be Left Alone Some interesting thinking on exceptions here. “Reasoning about everything that could cause an exception in any given part of your application is simply not possible.” reinteractive  Sponsored We've Solved the Problems of ROR Operations Our out-source DevOps solves the problems associated with ROR development. Plus our blue/green pre-baked deployment process means that you can deploy your app as often as you want. Get started today – start enjoying OpsCare. Dan Manges The Modular Monolith: Rails Architecture An interesting and effective approach to organizing your Rails application by creating engines for each domain concept. Noah Gibbs How Much Does Meltdown/Spectre Patching Slow a Big Rails App? If you’re sweating patching servers due to performance, this may help set your mind at ease, although it’s just one set of numbers. GoRails An Intro to the Stimulus JS Framework in 18 Minutes A screencast look into the new JavaScript framework by Basecamp focused on adding interactivity to HTML elements. Julia Evans rbspy: An In-Progress Sampling Profiler for Ruby Julia Evans has been writing about making a better Ruby profiler that can inspect running Ruby processes. Here’s a preview, with Linux support only (Mac support is coming). Jobs Technical Writer (Full Time / Part Time / Remote)Do you like writing for a technical audience? Looking for a bit of extra income, a part-time or a full time role, drop us a line. Raygun Platform Engineer - Core Services Backend (San Francisco)We’re a collaborative work environment using Ruby on Rails to manage and scale the infrastructure of our hotel booking app. Join us. HotelTonight Looking for A New Ruby Job In The New Year?Try Underdog.io, where hundreds of the best tech companies go to meet top ruby engineers. Companies email you directly as soon as next Monday. Underdog.io In brief Finding A Ruby Bug with GDB tutorial One of those fun journeys into C code that unearths an obscure bug.  Zachary Anker How We Built A Multi-Tenant Job Queue with Postgres & Ruby tutorial  Huy Nguyen Quick Tip: A String Memory Reduction Technique tutorial  Eric Wong Extracting Conditionals Into Well-Named Methods tutorial  Andy Croll Ruby 2.5's New 'FrozenError' Class tutorial A subclass of RuntimeError for when you try to modify frozen objects.  Atul Bhosale See Why Facebook, Spotify, & Fastlane Trust CircleCI with Their CI/CD  Automate the software development process using continuous integration and delivery so that you can focus on what matters.  CircleCI  Sponsored Testing Vue.js Componenents in Rails with Webpacker and Jest tutorial  WyeWorks Simple Background Job Processing in Rails with Sucker Punch tutorial  Kirill Shevchenko Debugging 100% CPU Usage in Production Rails Systems tutorial  Sam Saffron Searching in Rails with Solr, Sunspot, and Docker tutorial  Gaurav Koley Tips to Speed Up Asset Precompilation Time in Rails tutorial  Netguru A Guide to Ruby String Methods tutorial A handy reference or reminder, particularly for beginners.  Jesus Castello Rails with Webpack: It's Definitely Not for Everyone opinion  Marius Bauer any_good: A Tool to Quickly Evaluate if a Gem is 'Good' tools Or, more specifically, that it’s downloaded and updated often.  Victor Shepelev Optimize Utilization and Reduce Cost with GoCD's Elastic Agents    GoCD  Sponsored Rack::Params: Validation and Type Coercion for Rack::Request.params code  Jonathan Raphaelson Kan: A Simple, Functional Authorization Library code  Anton Davydov TTY::Markdown: Convert Markdown into Terminal-Friendly Output code  Piotr Murach Deploy Virtual Machines in Seconds - With $100 Credit On Us    DigitalOcean  Sponsored Curated by Peter Cooper and Glenn Goodrich, and published by Cooperpress. Send feedback by simply replying to this mail. Want to sponsor an issue? See our media kit. Want to post a job? Email us or use our self-serve system. Stop getting Ruby Weekly | Change email address | Read this issue on the Web © Cooperpress Ltd, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Email policy Privacy policy