Matthew Ford

Consider: Switching from ImageMagick to Vips

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### Pitch In Rails 7, the default image process is now vips https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/42744 It's faster and uses less memory, ruby-vips can also fall back to ImageMagick if needed (although kt-paperclip...

Upgrade Ruby to 3.1

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Ruby 2.6 is no longer receiving support and is end-of-life, and Ruby 2.7 will also be in March. Ruby 2.6 tests were removed from CI over a year ago (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16861)...

Use PGbouncer to reduce the number of database connections

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### Pitch Servers are being overloaded and exhausting database connections, we can help reduce the number of connections required by using pgbouncer. we can add it to the docs for...

Performance of rspec on the mastodon test suite is very slow compared to MRI

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Hello, I'm trying to get mastodon to run in truffleruby, however one thing I have noticed is the specs run orders of magnitude slower thanunder MRI. I'm using this branch:...

Can't run under truffleruby

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appsignal (3.1.6) truffleruby-22.3.0 ERROR: AppSignal failed to load extension. Please run `appsignal diagnose` and email us at [email protected] LoadError: cannot load such file -- appsignal_extension rake aborted! LoadError: cannot load...

OWASP recommends a password length of at least 8 characters https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Authentication_Cheat_Sheet.html#implement-proper-password-strength-controls Partly addresses https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/issues/5591

### Steps to reproduce Running in Docker, we have SECRET_KEY_BASE_DUMMY=1, which skips the check for the master key; ideally, we have something similar for ActiveRecord::Encryption keys, so we do not...