Posts in Rails (4 found)
André Arko 1 months ago

Rails on SQLite: exciting new ways to cause outages

This post was originally given as a talk for Friendly.rb . The slides are also available. Between Litestack and the Rails 8 trifecta of Solid Cable, Solid Cache, and Solid Queue, it’s easier than ever to spin up a Rails app that doesn’t need a database service, or a redis service, or a file storage service. It’s great to simplify things, but even after 20 years of deploying Rails apps I was still caught out by some of the ways things are different. Based on what happened when I built a new side project in Rails on SQLite, we’ll cover what’s different, what’s new, and several ways that you can knock your site offline or even destroy your entire production database. As we go, we’ll also talk about the advantages of using SQLite, and how those differences can help you. So who am I, how did I learn these things, and why should you listen to me? I’m André Arko, better known on the internet as @indirect. A long time ago, I helped create Bundler , and I’ve been the OSS team lead for RubyGems and Bundler for more than a decade at this point. I work at Spinel Cooperative , a collective of Ruby open source maintainers building rv , the Ruby language manager that can install Ruby in one second flat. We offer retainers for unlimited access to core team experts from Bundler, Rails, Hotwire, and more, who can answer your questions and solve your problems.

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DHH 1 months ago

Thrice charmed at Rails World

The first Rails World in Amsterdam was a roaring success back in 2023. Tickets sold out in 45 minutes, the atmosphere was electric, and The Rails Foundation set a new standard for conference execution in the Ruby community. So when we decided to return to the Dutch Capital for the third edition of the conference this year, the expectations were towering

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ptrchm 1 years ago

How to Use UUIDv7 in Rails for Primary Keys

Using UUIDs for primary keys offers many benefits, but there are some downsides to consider. The most widely-used UUIDv4 is fully random, which is ideal for minimizing the risk of collision. However, random IDs as primary keys do not index and sort efficiently, leading to index bloat and performance issues. There is a new standard that addresses this problem by including a UNIX timestamp 1 in the initial bits: UUIDv7 2 . As of this writing, selecting in Rails defaults to using UUIDv4 for primary keys, with the generation deferred to Postgres.

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