📑 Short Ruby News - The Content Edition #40

Content created in Ruby world - week 17 of 2023

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📚 Books and courses

👀 Noel Rappin announced a discount code for Programming Ruby 3.2 (5th Edition) valid until 5 May:

Source: @noelrap@ruby.social

👀 Vladimir Dementyev announced they are writing a book Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications

Source: @palkan_tula

🗒️ Slides from Rails Conf

🗒️ Noel Rappin shared their slides from Rails Conf 2023 → Rails on Ruby: How Ruby Makes Rails Great

Source: https://speakerdeck.com/noelrap/rails-on-ruby-how-ruby-makes-rails-great

🗒️ Vladimir Dementyev shared their slides from Rails Conf 2023 → Rails as a piece of cake

Source: https://speakerdeck.com/palkan/railsconf-2023-rails-as-a-piece-of-cake

🗒️ Eileen M. Uchitelle shared their slides from Rails Conf 2023 → The Magic of Rails

Source: https://speakerdeck.com/eileencodes/the-magic-of-rails

🗒️ Joël Quenneville shared their slides from Rails Conf 2023 → The Math Every Programmer Needs

Source: https://speakerdeck.com/joelq/the-math-every-programmer-needs

🗞 Newsletters

🗞️Ruby On Rails published a new edition of This Week in Rails → End of April 2023 Edition

🗞️Greg Molnar announced a new edition of Rails Tricks → Active Support helpers configuration - Rails Tricks Issue 4

🗞️ Ruby Libhunt published a new edition of Awesome Ruby Newsletter - Issue 362, Apr 27, 2023

🗞️ Ruby Weekly published a new edition: Some advanced Active Record concepts

🗞 Ruby Radar published a new edition end of railsconf reached (EORError)

🎧 Podcasts

🎧Jason Swett published a new episode about 179 - France, Snail Mail, and ChatGPT with Nick Schwaderer

Source: https://www.codewithjason.com/podcast/12715520-179-france-snail-mail-and-chatgpt-with-nick-schwaderer

🎧The Rails Changelog published a new episode about Amanda Perino Discusses Rails World

Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/0b646ae8

🎧 Ruby For All published a new episode about Leveling Up: What Does It Take to Be a Senior?

Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/2327c7a7

🎧Remote Ruby published a new episode about Indie Game Dev with Amir Rajan - Dragon Ruby and Ruby Motion

Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/b715079a

🎧Rooftop Ruby release a new episode about 10: Road to RailsConf

Source: https://www.rooftopruby.com/2108545/12717098-10-road-to-railsconf

Videos

Talks

📽️ Loki Consulting published a video about Squeezing intent out of tests (featuring rspec and BDD)

📽️ Jason Swett published their presentation about A Different Way to Think About Rails Models [EN]

📽️ Drifting Ruby published a new video version of This Week in Rails - April 28th, 2023

📽️ Rubber Duck Dev Show published a new episode about All About Roda With Jeremy Evans

Screencasts

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published a new video about Ruby on Rails #127 cURL for CRUD API requests

🎥Deanin published a new episode about VS Code Extensions for Ruby on Rails (That I Use)

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✍🏾 Articles

What’s new

Brandon Weaver published an article about In Favor of Ruby Central Memberships

Source: https://dev.to/baweaver/in-favor-of-ruby-central-memberships-15gl

Joshua Jackson published an article about Ruby Basics: A Beginner’s Guide to Ruby

Source: https://codersdevs.com/ruby-basics-a-beginners-guide-to-ruby

Dante Catalfamo published an article about Lesser Known IRB Features

Source: https://blog.lambda.cx/posts/lesser-known-irb-features

How-Tos

Ryan Bigg published an article about Rails 7, Bootstrap CSS + JavaScript with ESBuild

Source: https://ryanbigg.com/2023/04/rails-7-bootstrap-css-javascript-with-esbuild

Honey Badger published an article about Working with PDFs in Ruby

Source: https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/ruby-pdfs

Nemwel Boniface published a new article about The Ultimate Guide to Active Storage in Rails

Source: https://dev.to/nemwelboniface/the-ultimate-guide-to-active-storage-in-rails-2f57

Deep Dives

Stephen published an article about Rails session cookie domain: :all - beware of CNAMEs!

Source: https://www.diaconou.com/blog/rails-session-store-domain-all-beware-of-cnames

Brad Gessler published an article about Hacking Rails Implicit Rendering for View Components & Fun

Source: https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/hacking-rails-implicit-rendering-for-view-components

Paweł Dąbrowski published a new article about Advanced Active Record: Optimizing Performance and Robustness with Locking, UUIDs, Fulltext Search, Database Views, and Geospatial Data

Source: https://blog.rubyhero.dev/advanced-active-record

Julián Pinzón published a new episode about Advanced Layout Rendering in Rails

Source: https://dev.julianpinzon.com/advanced-layout-rendering-in-rails

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