Introducing Trilogy: a new database adapter for Ruby on Rails
We’ve open sourced Trilogy, the database adapter we use to connect Ruby on Rails to MySQL-compatible database servers.
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Rails
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Adding support for cross-cluster associations to Rails 7
At GitHub, we recently added a new feature to Rails that will be available in 7.0: support for handling associations across database clusters.
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Encapsulating Ruby on Rails views
Learn more about how we are bringing encapsulation to our views as we scale to over 4,500 templates in our Ruby on Rails monolith.
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Upgrading GitHub to Ruby 2.7
GitHub recently upgraded to Ruby 2.7. Learn how the team approached the deprecation warnings, why upgrading is important, and the notable performance improvements.
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Running GitHub on Rails 6.0
On August 26, 2019, the GitHub application was deployed to production with 100% of traffic on the newest Rails version: 6.0. Read more about our process for upgrading, what we learned, and what’s next.
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Upgrading GitHub from Rails 3.2 to 5.2
On August 15th GitHub celebrated a major milestone: our main application is now running on the latest version of Rails: 5.2.1! 🎉 In total the project took a year and…
Learn moreThe library Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails
We spend a lot of time optimizing the front end experience at GitHub. With that said, our asset (css, javascript, images) packaging and serving has evolved to be the best…
Learn moreThe library Rails API with GitHub Links
This is just too cool. @voloko has created railsapi.com, a downloadable, smart searchable Ruby on Rails API with a great interface. img http://railsapi.com/i/browse.png http://railsapi.com img http://railsapi.com/i/smart.png http://railsapi.com img http://railsapi.com/i/recent.png http://railsapi.com…
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