Short Ruby News - Edition #102

Rails 7.2 released a lot of updates about fall conferences, some exciting launches and discounts, inspiring code samples, and good code design discussions.

Lucian Ghinda

and

Neenu Chacko

Aug 12, 2024

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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

🚀 Chris Oliver is working on SellRepo that lets us sell access to Github repos

🚀 Akshay Khot published a book about Rails Router:

Source: https://books.writesoftwarewell.com/3/rails-router

🚀 Josh Pigford launched SchemaKit - Automated schema markup

🚀 Nate Berkopec announced the release of the transaction in Japanese of the book Ruby on Rails パフォーマンスアポクリファ

🚀 Andrea Fomera announced a 10% discount for their course about Learn Hotwire by Building a Calendar

📅 Events

📆 Events happening this week if you want to attend (source: RubyConferences)

12 August, in UK → London Ruby User Group: August 2024 Meeting
13 August, in USA → YC Ruby Meetup: Ruby & Rails powering YC startups in 2024
13 August, in USA → Boston Ruby Group - August 2024 meeting
13 August, in Canada → Toronto Ruby - Summer of Rails World Edition
13 August, in USA → AustinRB/Austin on Rails - Ruby on AI "The magic Lego"
13 August, in Uruguay → Ruby Montevideo - Meetup August 2024
14 August, in USA → Boulder Ruby Group - Monthly Presentation Night
14 August, in USA/online → Philly.rb - Pubnite - Global/Virtual
14 August, in Germany → Hamburg on Ruby
14 August, in India/online → Ruby Meetup - Week 11

📅 Rocky Mountain Ruby Conference announced their full agenda Sessions | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024

📅 Ruby On Rails shared Special Rails World session: Matz & DHH Fireside Chat

📅 Ruby World Conf En shared that RubyWorld Conference 2024 registration is Now OPEN | RubyWorld Conference 2024

📅 I shared a thread about why participate in Friendly.rb (and, in general, smaller conferences). Here is just the first part of it, and you can read it full on my blog:

👉 All about Code and Ruby

💻 Code Samples

💻 Emmanuel Hayford shares the new update on Rails 8 that updates routing mapper implementation to use keywords instead of hashes

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️💻 Matt Swanson shared that rendering turbostream.html.erb template might be a code smell and provided a solution:

💻 ️️Jeremy Smith presents a way to call Turbo Stream replace with the new morph method

️💻 Cayter shared a tip about using Active Record Encryption:

️💻 Alazycoder shared a code sample about removing noise with LogStasher:

️💻 Axel Kee shared an a tip on TimeZone.new

️️💻 Ruby Cademy shared a code sample using the highlight method:

️💻 Cayter shared a tip on ActiveStorage and Inertia.js

️💻 Ahmed Nadar shared a tip on broadcasting asynchronous:

️💻 Alemaño shares how Active Storage lets you specify a folder path when uploading files to a service.

️💻 Kevin Vanzandberghe shared a rails active record tip:

Peter Cai adds a warning to the above issue:

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared about using the block_format:

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐 ️Kyrylo Silin shared how to use service objects in rails projects

Here are some of the replies (without going into full mode pro or against service objects):

️📐 Nate Berkopec asked about a good use case of using array types in DB:

Here are some of the replies (but there are a lot more there):

️📐 Mike Dalessio shared about running application test suite with all warnings enabled (see Add `-Werror` flag to turn Ruby warnings into errors)

️ ️📐 ️Study Every Day shared their thoughts about mixing data and code:

Here is Lucian’s take on the same:

️📐 Kay Rhodes shared about `public` as being a method that should not be overridden:

️📐 Michael Chaney shared about finding the balance between actions specified by data attributes and actions that are implemented in javascript controllers when using Hotwire:

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

💡 Jorge Manrubia shared about the next 37Signal libray that will be announced at Rails World, but it remains a secret so far:

💡 Ruby On Rails announced that Rails v7 guides are now using the new design:

💡 Ruby On Rails shared two documentation PRs that are waiting community feedback:

💡 Igor Alexandrov shared about Deprecate defining enums with keywords args by skipkayhil · Pull Request #50987:

Rafael França replied that if the code will show deprecation loudly it will not be included in the release notes:

💡 Kyle Fox asked about the best resources for Ruby on Rails:

Here are some suggestions:

Kasper Timm Hansen and Jeremy Smith - Riffing on Rails videos
Spencer Fry blog
Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications by Vladimir Dementyev
Upcase courses by Thoughbot
The Rails 7 Way by Obie Fernandez
SupeRails Youtube Channel and SupeRails content by Yaroslav Shmarov
The Rails and Hotwire Codex by Ayush Newatia
Build a Multitenant SaaS Project Management System Using Ruby on Rails and Hotwire by Allan Kamau
GoRails by Chris Oliver
Learn to build Full-Stack Rails apps like an expert by Hrishi Mittal
Ken Greeff YouTube channel
CJ Avilla Youtube channel

And there are a lot more resources shared in reply to that question.

💡Lucian Ghinda encourages to invest in junior ruby devs

💡 Robby Russell shared about upgrading Rails:

💡 Stephen Margheim asked about the best Rails app templates:

Here is a list of the links shared in replies (not all of them are Rails templates in the sense that they cannot be used for rails -m):

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Mohammad Bagher shared what the discover about Ruby:

❤️ Nate Berkopec never misses a chance to compliment the simplicity of rails

❤️ Paweł Dąbrowski quotes one quirky disadvantage of Ruby and Rails

❤️ Ajey Gore shared that Rails is still the best framework for CRUD apps:

they later added:

❤️ Rafael Peña Azar shared why they like Rails:

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Joel published a new open-source Rails app - gifrap - Gifrap is a self-hosted repository of animated gifs, and jpgs, etc.

🆕 Elvinas Predkelis announced a new gem phlex-tabler_icons: Tabler Icons tailored for Phlex

🆕 Valentino Stoll announced a new gem podcast-buddy: An AI podcast companion

Source: https://github.com/codenamev/podcast-buddy

🆕 sebyx07 published a new gem called ruby2html - Transform your view logic into elegant, semantic HTML with the power of pure Ruby (see also this article on dev.to)

Source: https://github.com/sebyx07/ruby2html

🆕 Matthew Clarkson published a new gem called Bridgetown Related Posts - A Bridgetown plugin that automatically generates and adds related posts to your Bridgetown site using TF-IDF and cosine similarity

Source: https://github.com/mpclarkson/bridgetown-related-posts

🧰 Updates

🧰 Ruby On Rails announced a new version of Rails 7.2 release candidate 1: Better production defaults, Dev containers, new guides design, and more!

Source: https://rubyonrails.org/2024/8/10/Rails-7-2-0-has-been-released

The highlights are:

Source: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/7_2_release_notes.html

Samuel Williams added about this version:

🧰 Avo announced a new version of v3.11.0 - 142 Pull Requests merged this month 🤯 · Avo

🧰 Samuel Williams announced a new Re: Ruby 3.2.4 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

🧰 Keygen announced that Keygen is now Fair Source

Source: https://keygen.sh/blog/keygen-is-now-fair-source/

🧰 Karl Oscar Weber announced a new version of Camping - version 3.2.6

Source: https://github.com/camping/camping/releases/tag/3.2.6

🧰 Vitaly Slobodin announced a new version of Release v0.0.4 · vitallium/intellij-plugin-ruby-lsp

🧰 Andrea Rocca announced a new version of their rails template Rails Daisy Solid Template

🧰 Peter Solnica shared a thread about an upcoming change to Rails 8 → Add structured logging next to developer logging:

🧰 Josh Pigford announced a new version of Release v0.1.0-alpha.14 · maybe-finance/maybe

Source: https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe/releases/tag/v0.1.0-alpha.14

🧰 Lázaro Nixon announced a new Rails PR about Bulk insert fixtures on SQLite by lazaronixon · Pull Request #52562 · rails/rails

Source: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52562

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Jeremy Smith shared a video about about building their new project: Liminal

🤝 Andrea Bosoni shared about development and marketing:

🤝 Lucian Ghinda shared a thread about writing good release notes:

🤝 Marcel Pociot shared about a Google API to get favicon from any domain:

🤝 Privv shared about the possibility to add notes to git commits:

🤝 Hussein Nasser shared about avoiding SELECT *

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Any Cable published a new edition about Any Cables Monthly #22: UI kit preview

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 32 - CTOs choose Hotwire, Image Upload Preview, and more! • Buttondown

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It published a new podcast about Ruby on Rails + SQLite with Stephen Margheim

🎧 Ode To Rails Conf published three new episodes with Chris Oliver Collin Jilbert, Jason Charnes

🎧 Indie Rails shared IndieRails | A Fresh Take on Old-School Forums

📽️ 🎥 Videos

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published a new video about SupeRails | #182 Build an OpenGraph image generator

🎥 Rob Whittaker published a new episode abou Resurrecting an Untouched Rails App

🎥 Drifting Ruby published a new video about Processing Large Jobs

🎥 Chris Oliver published a new video about How to Rate Limit Requests in Rails 7.2 (Example) and about How to use Dev Containers with Rails (Example)

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published a new video about SupeRails | #182 Build an OpenGraph image generator

🎥 Adam Mc Crea published a new video about How I Built It: Calendar UI with Turbo Frames, Tailwind, and Alpine.js

🎥 Josh Pigford published a new video about Coding with Cursor: Session 1

🎥 Graceful.Dev published a new video about Ruby: #fetch for defaults

🎥 Lukasz Reszke published a new video about Get rid of primitive obsession. Introduce value objects

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Chad Pytel published an article about Ruby on Rails is great for AI

🆕 Kelly Gebo published an article about Why CTOs are choosing Hotwire and Ruby on Rails

🆕 Blazej published an article about From Real Estate to Ruby - Why I Chose Ruby on Rails

🆕 Miles published a new article about Rails is 20

🆕 Kasper Timm Hansen published a new article about My take on Refactoring Rails’s initializers

🆕 John Vester published an article about Buh-Bye Webpack and Node.js, Hello Rails and Import Maps - DEV Community

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

🆕 Justin Searls published an article about What one must pass to includes() to include Active Storage attachments

🆕 Jaimy Simon published an article about Rails 8 introduces a basic authentication generator - BigBinary Blog

🆕 Josef Strzibny published a new article about Introduction to Minitest Mocks

🆕 Michael Keene published an article about The Strangest Ruby Syntax: PatternMatching

🆕 Julian Rubisch published a new article about Betterstimulus | Dependency Inversion Principle

🆕 Krzysztof Kamil published an article about The Business Value of Refactoring and Testing

🆕 Haseeb Annadamban published a new article about Understanding The Output of EXPLAIN Command As a Rails Developer

How-TOs 📝

📝 Max Braga published an article about Migrating ActiveJob to Sidekiq Job: Why and How

📝 Kyrylo Silin published a new article about How to add Mission Control to your Rails app and protect it with Basic Auth

📝 Guillaume published an article about How I use OpenAI to translate my Rails application into multiple languages

📝 Martin Streicher published an article about An Introduction to Nix for Ruby Developers

📝 Owais published a new article about Formatting and Linting ERB files with Zed on save

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