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Naming Things for What They Do

I just saw the Rails World announcement that flavorjones is working on ActiveRecord::Tenanted and all I can say is, “What a reasonable name!” When I started willow.camp I chose not to use apartment partially because the name and the metaphor were too confusing. I didn’t like tho

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End To End Tests with Minitest and Rails

willow.camp has a small system test suite that runs on CI. It used to use the out-of-the-box settings that come with Rails: Capybara, Selenium, etc. I noticed a flaky test on CI, which launched a journey to replace Selenium with Cuprite. Fixing the Flaky Test I worked through the

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Use Precomputed Hashes Instead of BCrypt in Test

I asked Claude to find the slowest test file again after my success earlier today and Claude found a call to BCrypt in my fixtures that was gobbling up time. I need user records all over the place in my test and each new user is a new call to

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Speeding Up willow.camp's post_test.rb by 99%

Published on July 20, 2025 I just asked Claude to speed up the slowest test file in willow.camp. post_test.rb was taking over 1 second to execute. For a tiny Ruby app, that’s a long time. Here’s what Claude did. I was not expecting such a

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Introducing willow.camp

I’ve been working on a side project and am finally ready to share it! My blog, enumerator.dev, is now hosted on my platform called willow.camp. willow.camp started because I wanted a platform that felt like me. I wanted a simple editing interface, the ability to import

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How Rack::Timeout Keeps Your App Alive

Rack::Timeout is a library that monitors long-running requests in a Ruby app and kills them if they take too long. The default configuration in Rack::Timeout is to kill requests that take 15 seconds or longer. Why Do Requests Take A Long Time? The answer here will vary from

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Migrating from Standalone Sidekiq to an ActiveJob Adapter

I paired on this problem with my coworker Hannah Yeates. The examples below are from this pairing session. Thanks for working on this together, Hannah! I am working on a project right now that uses Sidekiq without the ActiveJob adapter. This means that our Sidekiq jobs look something like this:

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Two Tools for Diagnosing Slow Endpoints in Rails

In general, I see two types of slow endpoints when I am doing performance work: endpoints that have bad code causing a slow response, and endpoints that have a bad query causing a slow response. This post will focus on endpoints that have bad code. Slow endpoints can be identified