Guides
Each guide covers one clear task or comparison. Practical steps, explicit trade-offs, common mistakes and a checklist summary you can use on the job.
Deploy Ruby on Rails on a VPS
Complete deployment walkthrough: server preparation, Ruby versioning, Nginx reverse proxy, PostgreSQL, Puma and background jobs.
Ruby vs Rails
What Ruby gives you versus what Rails adds. When the framework helps, when it hinders, and how the two actually relate.
Rails 8 Upgrade Checklist
What to audit, test and fix before upgrading. Deprecation triage, gem compatibility, test matrix and rollback planning.
Ruby 4 Upgrade Notes
Key language changes, compatibility boundaries, and a practical approach to preparing your codebase for the next major Ruby version.
Nginx for Rails Apps
Reverse proxy setup, SSL termination, gzip compression, static asset serving and the Nginx directives Rails developers actually need.
PostgreSQL Indexing for Rails
Which indexes matter, how to read EXPLAIN, partial indexes, composite keys and the queries that slow down first.
Web Performance for Rails Developers
Rendering waterfalls, asset budgets, caching layers, database query optimisation and front-end performance from a Rails perspective.
Debugging Production Rails Issues
Triage workflows, structured log analysis, memory leak detection, error tracking and the patterns that make production incidents shorter.
Sidekiq Background Jobs Patterns
Queue design, retry behaviour, idempotency, job prioritisation and the Sidekiq patterns that hold up under real production load.