Short Ruby News - Edition #101

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🚀 Launches & 📅 Events

👉 All about Code and Ruby: 💻 Code, 📐Code Design,💡Around, ❤️ Why Choose Ruby

🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates: 🆕 New, 🧰 Updates

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾 (articles, podcasts, videos, newsletters)

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🚀 Launches and discounts

🚀 Ruby On Rails launched Ruby on Rails - Nominations open for the 2024 Rails Luminary Awards

🚀 Andrew Atkinson announced that their book High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails has a 30% discount with the occasion of Madison+ Ruby:

🚀 Amir Rajan announced that DragonRuby is free in celebration of LOWREZ JAM 2024 → see more details at DragonRuby Giveaway for LOWREZ 2024 by DragonRuby

📅 Events

📅 Y Combinator announced  YC Ruby Meetup: Ruby & Rails powering YC startups in 2024 

📅 Friendly.Rb shared an extensive list of updates → Visit friendlyrb.com for more information and tickets:

📆 Events happening this week if you want to attend:

• Boston Ruby Group - Project Night on 5th August

• Bluegrass Ruby Users Group - August 2024 on 6 August

• Paris.rb - Meetup August 2024 on 6 August

• Ruby Hack Night Online on 6 August

• Avo will organize the next session of Office Hours on 9th August

👉 All about Code and Ruby

💻 Code Samples

💻 u/Pilgrim-Ivanhoe shared two visual cheat sheets in Ruby about Sets and Arrays:

️💻 Matt Swanson shared a code sample about implementing membership and accounts:

️💻 Alazycoder shared about how to install ruby with debug options:

and here is how to install the debug version of Ruby on MacOS:

And continued showing examples of how to debug with lldb:

And here is an example about using RBS to discover more about Ruby:

️💻 Chris Oliver shared about using respond_to to include private and protected:

️💻 Nidhi Sarvaiya shared a code sample showing how to setup and use Solid Queue in Rails:

️💻 Alexandre Ruban shared that defaults can be used in fixtures as they are just YML files:

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared a tip about using Rails method cache_key_with_version:

️💻 Deepak Mahakale shared a tip about using Active Record Store:

️💻 Xavier Noria shared the code sample they are using to boot a Rails app and also shared they implemented a more concise way in a PR Implement the bin/rails boot command by fxn · Pull Request #52480 · rails/rails

He added:

️💻 Jeremy Smith shared a code sample about Adding custom Active Storage transformations - RailsInspire

️💻 Samuel Williams shared a benchmark between multiple background processing gems:

️💻 Kevin Vanzandberghe shared about using fugit - time tools (cron, parsing, durations, ...) for Ruby, rufus-scheduler, and flor:

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️ ️📐 ️JP Camara shared their thoughts about a post about Concurrent::Hash by RubyCademy:

📐 Kevin Vanzandberghe shared a video showing Turbo Morph in action and explained why it offers a layer of modern reactive UI:

️📐 Bilal Budhani asked about how to store temporary states in Rails:

Here are some suggestions:

️📐 Kevin Vanzandberghe shared about Rails 8 and getting rid of Redis:

💡 Around code (news, findings, books, and more - all about Ruby)

💡 Amanda Brooke Perino shared that the app that will be built this year for Rails World will be open-source:

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

In August, Rails is celebrating 20 years:

At least that was what Wikipedia was saying, before Rafael added and also corrected the Wikipedia page:

David Heinemeier Hansson shared how he started with Rails:

The celebration continues:

❤️ Jet Thoughts shared about a Ruby on Rails developer replacing a bigger team:

They also added:

❤️ Kyrylo Silin shared their tech stack for optimizing fast shipping:

❤️ Zach Gollwitzer shared 

Hassen Taidirt added:

❤️ Mike Chong shared they chose to switch from Next.js to Rails:

They also wrote an article about this I’m back, Ruby on Rails

David Heinemeier Hansson replied about how other frameworks are trying to replicate Rails:

Dan Wetherald added

❤️ Amias Yaska shared also:

❤️ Cayter shared about pivoting to Rails:

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Ben Sheldon published a new gem called  activerecord-has_some_of_many: Optimized top-N-per-group Active Record associations using lateral joins

🆕 Vincent Rolea announced a new version of GitHub - virolea/persisted_attributes: Add persisted fields to active record models without migrations.

🆕 sebyx07 published a new gem ruby-binary-search - BinarySearch is a Ruby gem that implements a self-balancing binary search tree using the Red-Black Tree algorithm. 

Joshua Young published a similar gem called red-black-tree - Red-Black Tree Data Structure for Ruby 

🆕 Svyatoslav Kryukov published a new gem called typelizer - automatically generates TypeScript interfaces from your Ruby serializers, bridging the gap between your Ruby backend and TypeScript frontend

🆕 Aleksei Zaitsev published a new gem called minitest-spec-converter - convert code in minitest or mixed style to minitest spec style

🆕 enjaku4 published a new gem called grepfruit - A Ruby gem for searching text patterns in files with colorized output

🧰 Updates

🧰 Rafael Franca updated the release policy of Rails in Implement new maintenance policy by rafaelfranca · Pull Request #52471

🧰 Bridgetown announced It’s Finally Here! Bridgetown 2.0 Beta 1

🧰Bozhidar Batsov announced a new release of  RuboCop 1.65.1 · rubocop/rubocop

🧰 Dima Fatko announced that Rails 8 will support custom columns when iterating in batches Support batching using custom columns by fatkodima · Pull Request #52384 · rails/rails

🧰 Nate Hopkins announced a new version of Gfmt: A simple template engine based on native Ruby String formatting mechanics

🧰 Camden Narzt announced a new version of Passenger 6.0.23

🧰 Jeremy Evans announced a new version of Sequel 5.83.0 Released! · jeremyevans/sequel · Discussion #2198 · GitHub

🧰 Janko Marohnić announced a new version of Release 1.15.0 · janko/rodauth-rails

🧰 Robert Starsi shared they are using a gem called retest: A simple CLI to watch file changes and run their matching Ruby specs. Works on any ruby projects with no setup

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 James shared a tip about how to add a description to a git branch using  Git - git-branch Documentation:

🤝 Cameron Moll shared about problem-solving:

Jason Fried added:

🤝 William Kennedy shared their alias to reload the zsh console:

Robby Russell added a link to ohmyzsh/lib/cli.zsh at 01a955657408c8396fc947075a912ee868d5e2a7 · ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh · GitHub

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

📚 Jeremy Smith their slides from Baltic Ruby about Refactoring Volatile Views into Cohesive Components

📚 えりりん / Eririn shared their slides from Red Dot Ruby Conf at Connecting dots Rails Girls and RubyKaigi (Red Dot Ruby Conference 2024)

📚 Charles Oliver Nutter shared their slides from Red Dot Ruby Conf at JRuby: Ruby on the Modern JVM - Speaker Deck

📚 Landon Gray shared their slides from Madison Ruby about Ruby On RAG - Building AI Use Cases for Fun and Profit - Speaker Deck

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition Ruby Weekly Issue 714

🗞 Greg Molnar published a new edition of This Week in Rails about Rails Luminary nominations open, new maintenance policy and more!

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 31 - Minesweeper Multiplayer in Hotwire, Kanban Board, and more!

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new edition Awesome Ruby Newsletter Edition 428

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 The Bike Shed published a new episode about The Bike Shed: 435: Cohesive Code with Jared Norman

🎧 Jason Swett published a new podcast about The Code with Jason Podcast - Code with Jason

🎧 Remote Ruby published a new podcast about There is no A in JSON

📽️ 🎥 Videos

🎥 Aaron Patterson published a new video about Pairin' with Aaron: Hacking on method_missing

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published a new video about #180 EU eInvoicing. PDF to XML to JSON. FaxturX, ZUGFeRD and about #181 Search and Autocomplete French Company Information

🎥 Evil Martians published the videos from SF Bay Area Ruby Meetup at SF Bay Area Ruby Meetup in July - Cisco Meraki by Evil Martians

🎥 Balticruby published the videos from the conference at Recordings 2024

🎥 Visuality published the videos from the Ruby Warsaw Conference at Ruby Warsaw Community Conference

🎥 Dennis Martinez published a new video about Secure Your Kamal App Deployments with Let's Encrypt

🎥 Lukasz Reszke published a new video about Event Sourcing basics for #rails developers!

🎥 Charles Max Wood published a new video about Ruby concurrency series with JP Camara 

🎥 Jason Swett published a new video about Fixing the Charge Data Model - Live Coding on SaturnCI and about Adding Billing - Live Coding on SaturnCI

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Onur özer published a new article about Rails is Good Enough

🆕 Igor Alexandrov published a new article about Happy Birthday, Rails! 🎉

🆕 Radan Skoric published an article about Exercise: Multiplayer Minesweeper with Rails and Hotwire

🆕 Julian Rubisch published a new article about Betterstimulus | Open-Closed Principle

🆕  Ahmed Nadar published a new article about Understanding Rails Concerns

🆕 Hrishi Mittal Hrishi Mittal published an article about Ruby on Rails Quiz

🆕 Haseeb Annadamban published a new article about Cheat Sheet for Rails + PostgreSQL Count Performance

🆕 Rails Designer published an article about From Partials (and Helpers) to Embracing ViewComponent in Rails

🆕 Kasper Timm Hansen published a new article about Refactoring Rails challenge: initializers

🆕 Prasanth Chaduvula published an article about Rails 7.2 Adds Support For Devcontainer

How-TOs 📝

📝 Antoine Braconnier published an article about Secure your Stripe Webhooks and protect yourself from Captain Hook

📝 Aestimo Kirina published an article about Setting Up Custom Metrics with Effective Alerts for a Ruby App in AppSignal

📝 Kevin Sylvestre published a new article about Using OmniAI to Search LLM Embeddings with Ruby on Rails and Postgres

📝 Justin Toniazzo published an article about Supercharge your Rails logs with tags

📝 Andres Chacon published an article about Automate Your Ruby Gem Releases

📝 Juan Vasquez published an article about The Next Rails Gem

📝 Greg Navis published an article about War Against Bots

📝 Karol Galanciak published an article about RDS Database Migration Series - Integrating Ruby on Rails applications with RDS Proxy