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Sidekiq 7 adds a new feature called capsules. Use cases: a chrome queue limited to 1 for e.g. PDF processing...
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Haml 6 was a major rewrite with performance in mind. To achieve a performance improvement of 1.7x, some design...
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Testing your responses in Rails allows to parse the body depending on the response MIME type with parsed_body.