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Chris Oliver
Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.
About This Episode
C extensions are a powerful tool to connect Ruby code with C libraries that can perform much faster than a pure Ruby counterpart.