Hot on the heels of last week's 5.2.0 we have 5.3.0! The big ticket item is support for Rails 7's new load_async. Check out our blog post [https://blog.skylight.io/rails-7-load_async/] for more details on the load_async support…
As you're likely well aware, Rails 7 was released last month [https://rubyonrails.org/2022/1/6/Rails-7-0-1-has-been-released] bringing a number of new features with it. One of the features we're most excited about is load_async. This features allows for multiple Active Record queries to…
We've just refactored our UI error handling code. This should result in fewer "red boxes of death" and also make it easier to track down and fix any remaining UI bugs.…
Skylight is a smart profiler for Ruby and Rails applications. In this post, we use Skylight to improve performance for the Skylight app. So meta!…
Today, we released version 2.0 [https://rubygems.org/gems/skylight] of the Skylight Agent. 2.0 doesn't introduce any new APIs, but we did rewrite the SQL Lexer to support more varieties of queries. We also spent a lot of time on internal refactoring and improved our…
We’ve just released the Skylight Agent 2.0 Beta and we’re excited to have you give it a try! The most significant changes are a completely rewritten SQL Lexer and removal of support for unsupported versions of Ruby, Rails, and other libraries. Read on to learn more or…
We're pleased to announce the release of version 1.4 [https://rubygems.org/gems/skylight/versions/1.4.0] of the Skylight agent today. This release has a number of improvements and some exciting new features! Read on to learn more, or skip to the good stuff and…
The Skylight gem [https://rubygems.org/gems/skylight] is a central part of the Skylight product and it's been stuck in at pre-1.0 for far too long. Today, we've released version 1.0.0, officially signifying that it's stable and mature! Along with…
I'm pleased to announce that the Skylight Documentation is now publicly available on GitHub [https://github.com/skylightio/skylight-docs]. It was always available to be read at docs.skylight.io [https://docs.skylight.io], but now the whole repository is public. To be clear, we don't…
tl;dr: When your credit card number or expiration date changes, in many cases, we can update them for your automatically! Credit cards are great. They're quick and easy for the customer and pretty darn nice for the seller (us!) as well. That said, getting issued a new…
