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How To Reduce a Large Heroku Slug Size

How to fix the “Compiled slug size: 500.6M is too large (max is 500M)” error when trying to deploy your Heroku app.
Dan Croak
June 13, 2016
- Heroku
- Ruby
- Web
Your Program is a Special and Unique Snowflake

Simplify and clarify your code by carefully choosing abstractions.
Joe Ferris
May 26, 2016
- Good Code
- Ruby
Action Mailer and Active Job sitting in a tree...

Getting started with Action Mailer and Active Job.
Elle Meredith
May 25, 2016
- Ruby
- Rails
- Web
My issues with Let

let can lead to bloat. Be careful.
Jason Draper
May 20, 2016
- Testing
- Ruby
- Good Code
- Web
Paperclip IS vulnerable to ImageTragick

Paperclip is affected by CVE-2016–3714 if used with ImageMagick 7.0.1-0 or earlier.
Tute Costa
May 6, 2016
- Security
- Open Source
- Paperclip
- Ruby
ImageMagick vulnerability does not affect Paperclip

There is no need to upgrade Paperclip in light of CVE-2016–3714. You may choose to upgrade ImageMagick regardless.
Tute Costa
May 4, 2016
- Security
- Open Source
- Paperclip
- Ruby
Blocks, Procs, and Enumerable

A look under the hood at how blocks and procs are used in Ruby.
Joël Quenneville
April 25, 2016
- Ruby
Maybe Thinking

By understanding Maybe, you begin to see code in a new light.
Josh Clayton
April 15, 2016
Recover Data from Production Backups with ActiveRecord

Sometimes things go awry with production data and you need to recover. Here’s one way to do it.
Bernerd Schaefer
April 13, 2016
- Web
- Ruby
Rebuilding Git in Ruby

From zero to commit! Let’s rebuild Git with a more familiar approach for Rails developers to get a better understanding on how Git works under the hood.
Joël Quenneville
March 14, 2016
- Git
- Ruby
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