rails
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
willow-camp
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
rails
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
ruby
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:
ruby
Kwargs are great for helping developers understand a method signature, but if they're not used carefully they result in confusing error messages.