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RailsConf 2013 Review

Can you believe it’s already been a whole week since RailsConf 2013 ended?! Another RailsConf has come and gone and everyone has gone back to their hometowns and offices. New Relic was lucky enough to have RailsConf in Portland, Oregon this year, which is our intergalactic engineering headquarters. We worked hard to make everyone who [...]

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Test All the Combinations!

Most applications test for their own correctness. But sometimes gems need to go further and test their interactions with other gems. newrelic_rpm – otherwise known as the New Relic Ruby agent – is definitely one of them. It needs to not only coexist with other gems, but to seamlessly instrument them. So, how do we [...]

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Red Code, Green Code

I’ve got an idea I want to share with you. It’s the concept of Red Code and Green Code. Now, this doesn’t have anything to do with the red / green / refactor cycle, code coverage or testing. You’ll know Green Code when you see it. It’s code that’s made elegant due to some cleverly written [...]

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Debugging Stuck Ruby Processes – What to do Before You Kill -9

RailsConf 2013 has begun! To celebrate, we’re publishing a series of blog posts that highlight what’s new and exciting in the world of New Relic’s Ruby support. Don’t forget to check out the entire series so far: Cross Application Tracing, Thread Profiling, Living on the Edge with Rails 4 & Ruby 2, Thread Safe APIs & Sidekiq Support for [...]

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Security Banners (For If You Forgot to Apply the Latest CVE Patch)

RailsConf 2013 is right around the corner! And to celebrate, we’re publishing a series of blog post that highlight what’s new and exciting in the world of New Relic’s Ruby support. Don’t forget to check out the entire series so far: Cross Application Tracing, Thread Profiling, Living on the Edge with Rails 4 & Ruby 2, and Thread Safe [...]

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