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How I Upgrade Ruby on Rails

Published: December 20, 2020
Another year, another major Rails release. Rails 6.1 looks to be a solid one. Though, despite all the new features and fixes a new Rails version brings, there is always one looming problem for developers - the upgrade.
Tags: ruby

Programmatically Defer Sidekiq Jobs

Published: July 31, 2020
Sidekiq will happily chug along and process any and all jobs that are in the queue. But, what if you want it to take a break for a bit?
Tags: ruby

Building, installing, and configuring your own Ruby RPM for CentOS

Published: July 23, 2016
If you're running your Ruby apps on your own server, you obviously need Ruby installed. The problem is the version of Ruby provided by the OS is commonly not what you want.
Tags: ruby

Migrating from unicorn to puma with no downtime

Published: June 26, 2016
I decided want to migrate a Rails 4.2 side project from unicorn to puma. The app has relatively high traffic throughout the day, so I want to avoid any visible downtime.
Tags: ruby