In a recent project i am involved in, i had to perform some optimization regarding the overall application response time, and it happens this application is using Trailblazer...

Scalling a Rails application’s response is often done by using another programming language. As we might know, Twitter has started as a Rails application, and ended up...

class SomeClass < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user

  def self.serialize(attr_name, class_name = Object, exposed_fields = [])
    super(attr_name, class_name)
   ...

Recently i have come across one small problem that i needed to fix. I had many records in a DB that i do not needed. I could not delete the entire collection, as i needed...

I’ve been searched for a method on how to work using sphinx from console, I needed to access the interface in order to see what’s indexed, how is stored and also test...

I was looking for a way to scale horizontally a Ruby on Rails application, and i have tried several methods to scale it. A method would be using a MySQL cluster, but...

Recently I have observed that one of my servers took long time to respond to users. After an investigation I have seen that i had a lot of TIME_WAIT connections, because...

Today i was discussing with a colleague of mine about a mysql database optimization technique, and some of the things i have learned about how mysql works on big table...

By using Ruby or Pyton you might know about the fact that both are dynamically typed, as a result a developer can choose some of the variants available to remove some of...

When having to administer a big database having tables that contains millions of rows, a big issue emerges. Optimizing the tables and the data stored.

A short version...

If you reached this page, it might be because you have searched how the hell you could create an enum field in Ruby On Rails.

Short answer: Ruby On Rails prior to version...