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#dig lets you easily traverse nested hashes, arrays, or even a mix of them. It returns nil if any intermediate...

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Converting string characters to or from their integer value (7-bit ASCII value or UTF-8 codepoint) can be done...

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Helix allows you to implement performance-critical code of your Ruby app in Rust, without requiring glue code to bridge...

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Instead of using this hack you might want to use MariaDB 10.x which can work with both old and...

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Stackprof is a sampling call-stack profile for Ruby 2.1+. Instead of tracking all method calls, it will simply collect...

Uses FFI and works all relevant operating systems. If you'd try to do it yourself, you'd have to...

You login to a Linux server with a performance issue: what do you check in the first minute? uptime

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In Ruby 2.3 you can use <<~ instead of <<- to automatically remove indentation from a HEREDOCs: str = <<~MESSAGE Hello Universe!

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