October 2025

🧊🧶 Rails with Frozen Strings

By Daniel Morrison

Following on with Jean Boussier’s related post, here are my thoughts on freezing strings in Ruby.

tl;dr: We run almost everything with RUBYOPT=--enable=frozen-string-literal in production, have for years, and you should too!

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