Looking forward to Ruby's future

Ruby became a more stable and mature language over the years. Some would say innovation slowed down (and I was probably one of them), but I still appreciate writing Ruby on a daily basis on the job. In this blog post I will succinctly explain why Ruby is still a valid choice for writing new (web and non-web) applications, the challenges of maintaining large code bases and what I look forward in the coming years. ...

December 31, 2018 · 4 min · Franck Verrot

Benchmarking Ruby's `method_missing` vs `define_method`

After recently benchmarking PostgreSQL to find out if some of the techniques we used were efficient, I decided to look at the usage of a controversed Ruby feature: method_missing. ...

July 21, 2015 · 5 min · Franck Verrot