Drifting Ruby

Searchkick and Elasticsearch

#65 Jan 29, 2017 free

Add full text searching using Searchkick and Elasticsearch. Here I will show the steps involved in adding this search to an existing application and a sample of autocomplete functionality.

rails search performance

Redis Basics

#56 Nov 28, 2016 free

Redis within a Ruby on Rails application has many benefits. Learn to interact with Redis Server and set it up for caching within your application.

rails cache performance

Sidekiq Basics

#59 Dec 18, 2016 free

Sidekiq is a Ruby Background Processor that manages its queue with a Redis service. Learn the basics of Sidekiq and integrating it with ActiveJob.

rails performance background processing

Benchmark Ruby Code

#262 Oct 4, 2020 free

It's easy to accidentally write slow code in our applications. In this episode, we look at how we can benchmark our code and examples of some methods which are slower than others.

benchmark performance ruby

Progressive Render

#33 Jun 13, 2016 free

Slow content got you down? Load it later! Use this gem to defer loading of portions of your page until after load. They will be fetched via AJAX and placed on the page when ready.

rails performance ajax view

Speeding Up Requests

#322 Nov 7, 2021 free

In this episode, we look at several issues around pagination and different kinds of querying that could affect performance when working with large datasets.

performance rails search pagination

Fragment Caching

#24 Apr 14, 2016 free

Make your application faster by leveraging memory and caching fragments of your view.

rails caching performance

Benchmarking and Refactoring the content_for View Helper

#90 Jul 23, 2017 free

In a recent blog post, we looked into the content_for view helper to render breadcrumbs. Once we got the feature working, it's time to refactor the feature to lower technical debt.

rails performance benchmark refactor

Improving Partial Loading Performance

#145 Aug 5, 2018 free

N+1 queries can make an application slow. Having queries called within views can also slow down an app as well as making it less extendable.

rails performance database

Caching with Dalli

#18 Sep 22, 2015 free

Dalli is a great interface for Memcached through Ruby.

rails performance caching

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Improving Partial Loading Performance

Caching with Dalli