Over the last few years, more developers have taken Ruby as their staple programming language. Who can blame them? It certainly has a lot of appealing features. For one, the syntax is easy to read and debug. A default MVC architecture within most Ruby frameworks is another alluring factor that may have had you using it as well.

Despite the long list of advantages, there exists perhaps an equally lengthy list of cons. At the pinnacle of said cons are the low-performance characteristics that every Ruby application shows unless optimized. Many of the reasons for that are due to the nature of the language itself. More about that as you read on. Fortunately, there are some Ruby performance tips worth keeping up your sleeve to make it worth the effort.

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