May 15, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Speed Up Your Rails Views By Deferring Changes

Nobody likes a slow website.  And the more notifications and content privileges you calculate beforehand the longer your web requests take to load and send.  The most efficient way to change this is to make as much of your site static as you can and defer your changes to after the page has fully loaded. …

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January 16, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

The 500 Millisecond Rails Partial

Click… 15 seconds later: “Something went wrong”.  So that happened.  I’d written a web based email client and it was taking too long to load.  If it reached 15 seconds it would quit because of the servers time-out setting.  Here’s my journey into finding out what went down. First things first, I needed to know…

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