Hacker News with Generative AI: Rails

The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App (byroot.github.io)
When the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale.

Ruby, Performance, Databases, Rails

16 points by ksec 28 days ago | 0 comments

The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App (byroot.github.io)
When the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale.

Rails, Performance Optimization, Database, Ruby, Concurrency

8 points by todsacerdoti 28 days ago | 2 comments

RailsConf 2025 will be the last gathering of its kind (rubycentral.org)
We are excited to officially announce that the final RailsConf will be taking place from Tuesday, July 8th to Thursday, July 10th, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA. 🎉

Rails, Conferences

24 points by auvi 48 days ago | 11 comments

Voctoweb – the front end and back end software behind media.ccc.de (github.com/voc)
Voctoweb is a rails application that provides a “YouTube like” user interface to video, audio and pdf files; a meta data editor; and APIs. For more infomation about relations to other components see c3voc Wiki.

Web Development, Media, Rails

5 points by doener 53 days ago | 0 comments

Thruster – HTTP/2 proxy for Rails apps with built-in Let's Encrypt and caching (github.com/basecamp)
Thruster is an HTTP/2 proxy for simple production-ready deployments of Rails applications.

Rails, HTTP/2, Web Development, Deployment, Caching

17 points by jbverschoor 56 days ago | 3 comments

Hotwire Spark: live reloading for Rails applications (37signals.com)
Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications.

Web Development, Rails, Live Reloading, Development Tools

12 points by juliendc 64 days ago | 2 comments

37signals Dev – A vanilla Rails stack is plenty (37signals.com)
Minimal dependencies, maximum productivity. Staying vanilla pays long term dividends for your Rails apps.

Rails, Web Development, Programming, Productivity, Software Development

9 points by doppp 66 days ago | 1 comments

Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer (andyatkinson.com)
About 10 years ago I wrote a post PostgreSQL for the Busy MySQL Developer, as part of switching from MySQL to Postgres for my personal and professional projects, wherever I could.

Django, Postgres, Rails, Web Development, Databases

180 points by plaur782 71 days ago | 120 comments

Rails is better low code than low code (radanskoric.com)
“We need a very simple CRUD app for managing the reservations.” They1 said. “Don’t spend too much time on it.” They added.

Rails, Low-Code, Software Development, Web Development

493 points by thunderbong 85 days ago | 242 comments

Rails 8.0 and More (world.hey.com)

Rails, Web Development

3 points by amalinovic 104 days ago | 0 comments

Ruby on (Guard)Rails (mikemcquaid.com)
I’ve worked on a few Ruby apps in my career at varying scales:

Ruby, Web Development, Rails

24 points by doppp 110 days ago | 1 comments

Rails 8.0 Beta 1: No PaaS Required (rubyonrails.org)
Deploying modern web apps – with all the provisions needed to be fast and secure while easily updateable – has become so hard that many developers don’t dare do it without a PaaS (platform-as-a-service). But that’s ridiculous. Nobody should have to pay orders of magnitude more for basic computing just to make deployment friendly and usable. That’s a job for open source, and Rails is ready to solve it.

Rails, Open Source, Web Development, Cloud Computing, Deployment

26 points by ksec 146 days ago | 10 comments

Rails 8: It's more fun to be competent [video] (youtube.com)

Rails, Programming, Video, Web Development

48 points by graypegg 147 days ago | 10 comments

Hunting for Gems: How Ruby's package management system evolved (railsexplained.com)
It’s time for another installment in our series on loading code in Rails.

Ruby, Package Management, Programming, Rails

69 points by greytape 148 days ago | 19 comments

SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance (fractaledmind.github.io)
Over the last year or so, I have found myself on a journey to deeply understand how to run Rails applications backed by SQLite performantly and resiliently.

Rails, SQLite, Performance, Databases

271 points by tosh 162 days ago | 96 comments

Rails 8: 15,000 requests/second with SQLite on $220/month EPYC 48-core Hetzner (twitter.com)

Rails, Performance Optimization, Databases, Hosting, Cloud Computing

13 points by tosh 171 days ago | 0 comments

Scaling Rails and Postgres to millions of users at Microsoft (stepchange.work)

Scaling, Rails, Postgres, Databases, Microsoft

202 points by htormey 176 days ago | 91 comments

YC Ruby Meetup: Ruby and Rails Powering YC Startups in 2024 (ycombinator.com)

Ruby, Rails, Startups, Y Combinator

5 points by ksec 210 days ago | 0 comments

Rails 7.2 Beta 1: Better production defaults, Dev containers, new guides design (rubyonrails.org)