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5 Steps To Change A Column Type With Zero Downtime Deployment In Rails
It's not that easy to make an easy change. Especially if that change is applied to an existing large table. -
ActiveStorage and Turbo: Order Matters
Mind those callbacks when broadcasting live. -
Zero-Downtime PostgreSQL Migrations: 4 Tips For Success With AWS DMS
Major PostgreSQL version upgrades in AWS RDS are a pain. Here's what I wish I'd known about AWS DMS. -
Using feature flags to rewrite every view in our Rails app
Feature flags are an effective method for developing and introducing large changes to an existing codebase without large interruptions to the engineering team. We have over 400 ERB files (views & partials) in our Rails app, and we re-wrote all of them over the course of 9 months using feature flags.
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The Road To Ruby 3
In a small team or a small codebase, upgrading from Ruby 2 to 3 is often a short and decisive process. However, at Wrapbook we have a large codebase split across six teams with over 50 people contributing daily. To put some meat to that, running
rails stats
on our majestic monolith returns over 180k lines of code.