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📚 Books

📚 Noel Rappin announced that Programming Ruby 3.2 (5th Edition) is now draft-complete:

Source: @noelrap

🗞 Newsletters

🗞️ Ruby Weekly published a new edition: Ruby 3.3 makes its first appearance

🗞Vipul A M published a new edition of This Week in Rails about Rails World CFP, ActiveRecord.disconnect_all!, optimized where query and more!

🗞 Greg Molnar published a new edition of Rails Tricks about Shared examples with Minitest - Rails Tricks Issue 7

🗞️ Ruby Libhunt published a new edition of Awesome Ruby Newsletter - Issue 365

🗞️ Ruby Radar published a new edition about Spilling Beans

🎧 Podcasts

🎧Rooftop Ruby published a new episode about 13: Open Source and More With Marco Roth

🎧Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It published a new episode about Episode 21 - Nick Schwaderer

🎧 Indie Rails published a new episode about Pascal Laliberté - 6 things to avoid as a freelancer

🎧 Remote Ruby published a new episode about Railsconf Recap | Remote Ruby | Episode 229

🎧 Ruby Rogues published an episode with Brad Gessler about Building Rails Application with Phlex

Videos

Talks

📽️ Yaroslav Shmarov published their first episode of SupeChat Amanda Perino from Rails Foundation about Rails World

📽️ The Rubber Duck Dev Show published a new episode about Leveling Up For Juniors With CodeWithJulie

Screencasts

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published a new episode about Rails 7 #133 API Pagination with Pagy

🎥 Dave Kimura published a new episode about Tokenized Search

🎥 Deanin published new episodes about:

• Flask on Rails | Python & Ruby on Rails 7 Tutorial

• Speech Recognition in Ruby on Rails 7

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✍🏾 Articles

What’s new

Samuel Williams shared their slides from Ruby Conf AU: Asynchronous Rails

Source: https://github.com/ioquatix/presentations/tree/main/2023

Big Binary published an article about Rails 7.1 adds ActiveRecord::Base::normalizes

Source: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-7-1-adds-activerecord-base-normalizes

On the same topic Sampat Badhe also published an article about Rails 7.1 AR adds normalizes API for attribute values

Shivam Singh Chahar published an article about Rails 7.1 adds support for responsive images

Source: https://www.shivamchahar.com/posts/rails-7.1-adds-responsive-images

How-Tos

Maurício Maia published an article How-To Add Recommendations to a Rails App with pgvector and OpenAI.

Source: https://medium.com/@mauricio/how-to-add-recommendations-to-a-rails-app-with-pgvector-and-openai-881d87915fb2

Aestimo Kirina published an article about Manage Your Ruby Logs Like a Pro

Source: https://blog.appsignal.com/2023/05/17/manage-your-ruby-logs-like-a-pro.html

Akshay Khot published an article about How to Create Custom Flash Types in Rails

Source: https://www.akshaykhot.com/create-custom-flash-types-rails

Adam Rice published an article about Debugging with introspection

Source: https://www.hashnotadam.com/posts/2023/05/debugging-with-introspection

Takashi Kokubun published an article about their talk at RubyKaigi about [JP] Announced how to write a JIT compiler on RubyKaigi (English version translated with Google)

Source: https://k0kubun.hatenablog.com/entry/2023/05/18/171546 (translated by Google translate)

Ariel Juodziukynas published an article about Handling Environment Variables in Ruby

Source: https://www.ombulabs.com/blog/handling-env-variables-in-ruby.html

Deep Dives

Unathi Chonco published an article about Ruby Method Lookup Demystified: Inheritance, Mixins, and Super

Source: https://blog.unathichonco.com/ruby-method-lookup-demystified-inheritance-mixins-and-super

Paweł Dąbrowski published an article about Unraveling the mystery of the super keyword

Source: https://blog.rubyhero.dev/super-keyword

Related

Dave Copeland shared an article about My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated

Source: blog.visionarycto.com

Paweł Dąbrowski published an article about Understanding database Indexes in PostgreSQL

Source: https://blog.mastermind.dev/indexes-in-postgresql

Jeremy Smith shared an repository about prompt-engineering: Tips and tricks for working with Large Language Models like OpenAI's GPT-4

Source: https://github.com/brexhq/prompt-engineering

Lucas Barret published an article about Postgres concurrency what could go wrong (part 1)

Source: https://dev.to/yet_anotherdev/postgres-concurrency-what-could-go-wrong-part-1-1fmf

Adam Rice published an article about Why you shouldn't exclusively hire senior developers

Source: https://www.hashnotadam.com/posts/2023/05/why-you-shouldnt-exclusively-hire-senior-developers

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