📑 Short Ruby News - The Content Edition #41

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🗞 Newsletters

🗞️ Ruby Weekly published a new edition: Faraday keeps us in the loop

🗞️ Greg Molnar published a new edition of Active Record where tricks - Rails Tricks Issue 5

🗞️ Greg Molnar published a new edition of This Week in Rails: Rails World tickets waiting list, caching improvements

🗞️ Ruby Libhunt published a new edition of Awesome Ruby Newsletter - Issue 363, March 4, 2023

🗞️ Ruby Radar published a new edition about What's a Turbo Boost?

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Tightly Coupled Book Club published a new episode about Getting Started With Rails (chapters 8-13)

Source: https://rss.com/podcasts/tightly-coupled-book-club/932900

🎧Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It published a new episode Episode 20 - Julie J

Source: https://podcast.drbragg.dev/episodes/episode-20-julie-j

🎧 Indie Rails published a new episode Chris Oliver - The story of GoRails: pivots, near failures, and random surprises

Source: https://www.indierails.com/7

🎧 Jason Swett published a new episode about ChatGPT and Testing with J. B. Rainsberger

Source: https://www.codewithjason.com/podcast/12771056-180-chatgpt-and-testing-with-j-b-rainsberger

🎧 The Rails Changelog published a new episode about Rails 7.1 got rid of the apostrophe for the right single quotation mark!

Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/4651b4e1

🎧 Ruby For All published a new episode about Exploring UX Research with Megan Brown

Source: https://share.transistor.fm/s/8ed41f6b

Videos

Talks

📽️ Dave Kimura published the video version of This Week in Rails - May 5th, 2023

📽️ Joe Masilotti streamed a video on Twitter about Turbo Native office hours - a live Q&A on building hybrid iOS apps with Turbo Native

Screencasts

🎥 Dave Kimura published a new episode about Active Storage Validators | Drifting Ruby

🎥 Deanin published new episodes:

• Rails Performance Gem | Ruby on Rails 7 Gem

• Content For Dynamic Partials in Ruby on Rails 7

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published new episodes:

• Ruby on Rails #128 Communicate between two Rails apps

• Ruby on Rails #129 API Token generation UI

🎥 Nate Hopkins published a video about Simple Rails + Docker for development and deployment

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✍🏾 Articles

What’s new

Victor Shepelev published a new article about A few words on Ruby's type annotations state

Source: https://zverok.space/blog/2023-05-05-ruby-types.html

ASWIN K V published an article about Ruby Code Vulnerability Analysis: ConfirmSnsSubscription RCE

Source: https://45w1nkv.medium.com/ruby-code-vulnerability-analysis-confirmsnssubscription-rce-8a902d9afdd7

Gelsey Torres published an article about The Dangerous Query Method Deprecation

Source: https://www.fastruby.io/blog/rails/security/dangerous-query-method-deprecation.html

Vlad Hilko published a new article about Say Goodbye to Messy Constants: A New Approach to Moving Constants Away from Your Model!

Source: https://dev.to/vladhilko/say-goodbye-to-messy-constants-a-new-approach-to-moving-constants-away-from-your-model-58i1

Ben Sheldon published a new article about Whatever you do, don't autoload Rails `lib/`

Source: https://island94.org/2023/05/whatever-you-do-don-t-autoload-rails-lib

Jason Swett published an article about In defense of productivity

Source: https://www.codewithjason.com/in-defense-of-productivity/

Brad Gessler published about Welcome to Rails Cheat Sheet, containing a collection of resources to read when starting with Rails:

Source: https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/welcome-to-rails-cheat-sheet

How-Tos

JT Dev published an article about How a large transaction can be a source of DB deadlocks and how this can be fixed

Source: https://dev.to/jetthoughts/how-a-large-transaction-can-be-a-source-of-db-deadlocks-and-how-this-can-be-fixed-39lg

Tyler Smith published a new article about Resize images before saving them with Ruby on Rails Active Storage

Source: https://dev.to/tylerlwsmith/resize-images-before-uploading-them-with-ruby-on-rails-active-storage-2nj0

Raymundo Alva published a new article about Rails Self-Referential Relationships

Source: https://dev.to/rayalva407/rails-self-referential-relationships-2e2g

Deep Dives

Felipe Vogel published an article about Parsing text in Ruby, part 2

Source: https://fpsvogel.com/posts/2023/ruby-regular-expressions-parsing-and-transformation

Paweł Dąbrowski published a new article about Extending Ruby classes

Source: https://blog.rubyhero.dev/mixins-prepend-extend-include

Cem Karakurt published a new article about Refactor Ruby On Rails Application In 5 Steps

Source: https://medium.com/@ickarakurt/refactoring-ruby-on-rails-application-in-5-steps-da4ee8e04b24

Samuelodan published a new article about How To Deploy Your Rails App to a DigitalOcean Droplet Using Dokku

Source: https://dev.to/samuelodan/how-to-deploy-your-rails-app-to-a-digitalocean-droplet-using-dokku-eh7

Erim Icel published two articles: Ruby and Ruby on Rails: Tips and Tricks #1

Source: https://medium.com/@erimicel/ruby-ruby-on-rails-tips-tricks-1-cdb43bd4d451

and the second article is Ruby and Ruby on Rails: Tips and Tricks #2

Source: https://medium.com/@erimicel/ruby-and-ruby-on-rails-tips-and-tricks-2-21246a8fbb83

Gokul published a new article about Become a Rails Association Pro: Replicating has_many with Pure Ruby

Source: https://gklsan.medium.com/become-a-rails-association-pro-replicating-has-many-with-pure-ruby-3c1a8c2026ba

Related

Jason Swett published an article about Using ChatGPT to reduce "study and synthesize" work

Source: https://www.codewithjason.com/chatgpt-study-synthesize

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