Faster Rails: How to Check if a Record Exists - Semaphore

Chief Architect at Semaphore. A decade of experience in dev productivity, helping close to 50,000 organizations with operational excellence. Ruby and Rails are slow — this argument is often used to downplay the worth of the language and the framework. This statement in itself is not false. Generally speaking, Ruby is slower than its direct competitors such as Node.js and Python. Yet, many business