Some time ago we wrote a couple of Tips for Writing Fast Rails. It was about time we wrote part two so here it is!

We recently spoke with Ryan Findley, Principal at Neomind Labs. We worked with his team to execute a Rails upgrade from 2.3 to 4.2 on one of their applications.

This article is part of our Upgrade Rails series. To see more of them, click here.

This article will cover the most important aspects that you need to know to get your Ruby on Rails application from version 5.1 to 5.2.

This article is part of our Upgrade Rails series. To see more of them, click here.

This article will cover the most important aspects that you need to know to get your Ruby on Rails application from version 5.0 to 5.1.

Today we are happy to announce the launch of our new microsite: Gemfile.lock Audit Tool - a tool created to allow users to check their Gemfile.lock for vulnerabilities in a quick and secure manner.

This article is part of our Upgrade Rails series. To see more of them, click here.

This article will cover the most important aspects that you need to know to get your Ruby on Rails application from version 4.2 to 5.0.

We recently collaborated with Power Home Remodeling on a Rails upgrade for their self-described “monolith CRM/ERP application” and were able to speak to them about their experience with Ombu Labs.

With the release of Rails 5.2 just around the corner (Rails 5.2 RC1 is already available!), we will be taking a look at some of the upcoming changes to the ActiveRecord::Dirty module. If you're running Rails 5.1, you may have already seen some of the deprecation warnings related to the API changes contained in it. Most of them are behavior changes, and there are some new additions as well.

To better understand these modifications, we'll take a look at sample projects in Rails 5.1 and Rails 5.2.

This article is part of our Upgrade Rails series. To see more of them, click here.

This article will cover the most important aspects that you need to know to get your Ruby on Rails application from version 4.1 to 4.2.

This article is part of our Upgrade Rails series. To see more of them, click here.

This article will cover the most important aspects that you need to know to get your Ruby on Rails application from version 4.0 to 4.1.

This article is part of our Upgrade Rails series. To see more of them, click here.

A previous post covered some general tips to take into account for this migration. This article will try to go a bit more in depth. We will first go from 3.2 to 4.0, then to 4.1 and finally to 4.2. Depending on the complexity of your app, a Rails upgrade can take anywhere from one week for a single developer, to a few months for two developers.

This is the third article of our Upgrade Rails series. We will be covering the most important aspects that you need to know to update your Ruby on Rails application from version 3.1 to 3.2.

This is the second article of our Upgrade Rails series. We will be covering the most important aspects that you need to know to update your Ruby on Rails application from version 3.0 to 3.1. If you are in an older version, you can take a look at our previous article.

This article is the first of our Upgrade Rails series. We will be covering the most important aspects that you need to know to update your Ruby on Rails application from version 2.3 to 3.0.

Rails is a powerful framework. You can write a lot of features in a short period of time. In the process you can easily write code that performs poorly.

At Ombu Labs we like to maintain Ruby on Rails applications. In the process of maintaining them, adding features and fixing bugs, we like to improve the code and its performance (because we are good boy scouts!)

Here are some tips based on our experience.

Prefer where instead of select

When you are performing a lot of calculations, you should load as little as possible into memory. Always prefer a SQL query vs. an object's method call.