➕Short Ruby News - The Content Edition #39

Content created in Ruby world - week 16 of 2023

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📚 Books and courses

👀 Jeremy Evans shared that Polished Ruby is now available in Japanese translated by Kakutani Shintaro

Source: @jeremyevans0

I don’t speak Japanese, so I am unsure if there is an official store to buy this book. I found two possibilities: LamdaNote.com and Amazon.co.jp

You can read a lovely review at 『研鑽Rubyプログラミング』をもらった

👀 Pete Hawkins announced they are launching their Rapid Ruby course with a discount. You can check the course at rapidruby.com

Source: @peteyhawkins

🗞 Newsletters

🗞️Greg Molnar announced a new edition of Rails Tricks → Array Tricks - Rails Tricks Issue 3

🗞Ruby On Rails published a new edition of This Week in Rails → The beginning of Trilogy, ChatGPT as a contributor

🗞️ Ruby Libhunt published a new edition of Awesome Ruby Newsletter - Issue 361, Apr 20, 2023

🗞️ Ruby Weekly published a new edition: 131 billion gems downloaded

🗞 Ruby Radar published a new edition #98 - RailsConf Week

🎧 Podcasts

🎧Drew Bragg announced they published a new episode from Code and The Coding Coders Who Code It with Joel Drapper Listen here: Episode 19 - Joel Drapper

Source: https://podcast.drbragg.dev/episodes/episode-19-joel-drapper

🎧Rooftop Ruby released a new episode about 9: Dry-RB and Hanami with Tim Riley

Source: https://www.rooftopruby.com/2108545/12666537-9-dry-rb-and-hanami-with-tim-riley

🎧 Tightly Coupled Book Club published a new episode about Getting Started With Rails (chapters 5-7)

Source: https://rss.com/podcasts/tightly-coupled-book-club/912693

🎧 Creston Jamison published a new episode of Scaling Postgres Easy Foreign Data Wrappers, JSONB Cheatsheet, Updating Cost Limit, Parallel Aggregate

🎧 Maintainable Software Podcast published a new episode about Lena Reinhard - How Will People Get Stuff Done?

🎧 Indie Rails published a new episode of Moncef Belyamani of Ruby on Mac

Source: https://www.indierails.com/6

🎧 The Ruby On Rails Podcast published a new edition Episode 466: Pairing on Code and Conference Talks with Selena Small and Michael Milewski

🎧 Ruby For All published a new episode about Establishing Trust and Improving Communication at Work with Josh Goldberg

Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/96787a98

🎧 Greg Molnar shared he was invited to Ruby Rogues Server-Side Request Forgery with Greg Molnar - RUBY 591

Source: https://topenddevs.com/podcasts/ruby-rogues/episodes/server-side-request-forgery-with-greg-molnar-ruby-591

🎧The Rails Changelog published a new episode 004: CTEs In Rails, CPKs coming soon with Vladimir Dementyev

Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/369b8c50

🎧Remote Ruby published a new edition with Amanda Perino - The Rails Foundation

Videos

Talks

📽️ Dave Kimura published the video version of This Week in Rails - April 21st, 2023

📽️ Test Double streamed a new talk about Standard Ruby Update Live Stream

📽️ Rubber Duck Dev Show published a new episode about Leaving the Cloud With Chris & Creston

Screencasts

🎥Yaroslav Shmarov published a new episode about Ruby on Rails #125 Test Devise authentication with Controller and System tests

🎥 GoRails published a new video about Upload Cover Images in Rails with ActiveStorage

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✍🏾 Articles

What’s new

Akshay Khot published a new article about A List of Books to Learn Programming with Ruby and Rails

Source: https://www.akshaykhot.com/books-to-learn-ruby-and-rails

Kevin Murphy published an article in their series “Anyone Can Play Guitar Series” about Composing Our Own Guitar Amps From Inherited Gear

Drew Breunig published an article about Practical AI For App Makers

Source: https://www.dbreunig.com/2023/04/10/practical-ai-for-app-makers.html

Big Binary published a new article about Rails 7.1 adds support for logging background job enqueue callers

How-Tos

Alex Mac Arthur published an article exploring Elegant Memoization with Ruby’s .tap Method

Source: https://www.macarthur.me/posts/memoization-with-tap-in-ruby

Greg Navis published an article about Making Lazy Accessors Thread-Safe

Source: https://www.gregnavis.com/articles/making-lazy-accessors-thread-safe.html

Paul Marclay published a new article about Service Objects in Ruby on Rails: Best Practices for Clean and Maintainable Code

Source: https://dev.to/paulmarclay/service-objects-in-ruby-on-rails-best-practices-for-clean-and-maintainable-code-2odk

Julián Pinzón published the second part of their series about Layout rendering in Rails Part 2: Implicit, per controller layouts

Source: https://dev.julianpinzon.com/layout-rendering-in-rails-implicit-per-controller-layouts

Christopher Winslett published an article about PostgreSQL for Solving N+1 Queries in Ruby on Rails

Source: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgresql-for-solving-n+1-queries-in-ruby-on-rails

Panos Dalitsouris published an article about Failing RSpec `have_attributes` with arguments matchers

Source: http://logs.panos.codes/code-explorations/failing-rspec-have_attributes-with-arguments-matchers

Alexandre Calaça published the second part of their series Rails caching about Rails: How to improve Rails performance with the Russian doll caching technique? [Part II - Theory]

Source: https://blog.alexandrecalaca.com

Deep Dives

Brad Gessler published an article about Component driven development on Rails with Phlex

Source: https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/component-driven-development-on-rails-with-phlex

Gernot Gradwohl published an article on AppSignal blog about How to Load Code in Ruby

Source: https://blog.appsignal.com/2023/04/19/how-to-load-code-in-ruby.html

Related

Sam Rose published a new article about Load Balancing

Source: https://samwho.dev/load-balancing

Kent Beck published two articles - one of them is 90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0

Source: tidyfirst.substack.com

and More What, Less How

Source: tidyfirst.substack.com

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