Short Ruby News - Edition #103

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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

🚀 Luke announced the (pre)launch of PetPals - Unleash Friendships with PetPals

🚀 Ruby On Remote announced a new section about Remote companies using Ruby

🚀 Glauco Custódio launched a new project → Even Better Specs | Guidelines for Maintainable Tests

🚀 Ganesh K. shared the release of Essential Brand Guidelines Book for Startup Founders | Crafting a Startup Brand - A Founders Manual

📅 Events

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

• 20 August → Ruby Türkiye - Virtual Meetup August 2024

• 21 August → Ruby on Rails Switzerland - Railshöck at Puzzle

• 22 August → Polish Ruby User Group (PLRUG) - Meetup August 2024

• 24 August → Osaka RubyKaigi 04

📅 Ruby Conf shared they are looking for volunteers Conference Volunteer Interest Form

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Thomas Cannon published a detailed guide about Fixing the Rails 7+ networking stack

💻 Code Samples

️💻 Nate Hopkins shared about using construct/deconstruct and Minitest assert_pattern:

💻 Akinori Musha shared a code sample about Ruby tweak for reverse sorting

️💻 Samuel Williams shared a code sample using pattern matching:

He explained his preference:

💻 ️ Nate Hopkins shared a tip for anyone using the terrific amazing_print ruby gem

️💻 Andrew Mason shared a tip about updating Ruby LSP:

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared rails tips on using with_lock method

They also shared tips on taking advantage of ActiveModel::Name#human to transform model names into a more human format, using I18n

Here is another tip to take advantage of config.middleware.use to integrate custom middleware seamlessly into your Rails app

️💻 Santanu Bhattacharya shares about a new identification mechanism GlobalID that allows representing ruby class as URL

️💻 Nate Hopkins shares about one liner pattern matches and Ruby patten matched case statements

️💻 Alemaño shared how to make your rake tasks safer and more user friendly with TTY::Prompt!

️💻 Michael Chaney discusses about invert_where method in active record

️💻 Bradley Schaefer shares about ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging

️💻 Josef Strzibny shared about how to fix Kamal build issue when moving to OrbStack:

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐 ️️ Shayon Mukherjee discusses why we should stop relying on IF NOT EXISTS for Concurrent Index Creation in PostgreSQL. Read the entire article here

📐 Lucian Ghinda shared an interesting thread on Why is the visibility of constants not affected by `private`? and how and why it should be. Check out the thread to know more.

️📐 Ruby Cademy asked about non-standard directories that are added to a Rails app/ folder:

Here are some answers:

app/themes - a theme directoryapp/appapp/interactorsapp/contractsapp/errorsapp/eventsapp/policiesapo/serializers app/servicesapp/validatorsapp/view_componentsapp/pdfsapp/notes (usually gitignored)app/middleware

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

💡 Irina Nazarova shared pictures from the YCombinator Ruby Meetup:

You should see the entire thread here.

Here is a followup:

💡 Irina Nazarova discusses the need for a comprehensive catalog of companies that use Ruby on Rails

💡Brad Gessler is building a “Hotwire for CLI apps”

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Jim Jones is looking for a senior software engineer to join their team

❤️ Ross Kaffenberger shared his love for Ruby on Rails

❤️ Lloyd Wilson shares his experience with rails apps

❤️ Dave Copeland describes how much work Rails does to provide an ergonomic API

❤️ Ahmed Nadar shared an article written by Mike Chong about I’m back, Ruby on Rails

❤️ Jake shared why they are choosing Ruby and Rails:

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Check out Andreas Haller openapi_first library that makes sure your API implementation is aligned with your OpenAPI API description

🆕 Zeke Gabrielse open-sourced a series of gems used at Keygen (see the entire thread here):

🆕 temporary_tables - Create temporary tables and models in RSpec tests

🆕 sql_matchers: Query assertions and SQL matchers for RSpec.

🆕 statement_timeout: Wrap an Active Record transaction or query in a local statement timeout

🆕 verbose_migrations: Enable verbose logging for Active Record migrations to monitor query speed and execution

🆕 union_of: Create associations that combine multiple Active Record associations using a SQL UNION under the hood.

🆕 null_association: Use the null object pattern with Active Record associations.

🆕  Landon Gray announced a new gem of simple_rag - Simple Rag is a lightweight library that transforms any Ruby project into a simple RAG application

🆕 Alex Rudall announced a new repository about awesome-ruby-places: A list of awesome companies currently using Ruby as their main backend language!

🆕 Andrew Kodkod published a new gem called phlex-lucide - Lucide.dev Icons for Phlex

🧰 Updates

🧰 RubyMine announced the release RubyMine 2024.2 Is Out!

🧰 Stephen Margheim announced a new PR for Rails about SQLite non-GVL-blocking, fair retry interval busy handler by fractaledmind · Pull Request #51958 · rails/rails

🧰 Jeremy Evans announced a new release for Roda, Roda 3.83.0

🧰 Andrea Fomera announced a new version of RicherText Ruby Gem Changelog

🧰 Gannon McGibbon submitted a new PR (that is now merged to Rails main) about Defer route drawing to the first request, or when url_helpers called

🧰 Vitaly Slobodin announced a new version of Ruby - Zed integration

🧰 Vinicius Stock announced a new version of Ruby LSP:

🧰 Vladimir Dementyev announced a new version of Release 1.4.0 · test-prof/test-prof · GitHub

🧰 Keshav Biswa announced a new version of useful_jekyll_scripts

🧰 Samuel Williams announced a new Pull Request about Add route helper for websockets. by ioquatix · Pull Request #52169 · rails/rails

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Scott Chacon shared on why it its a pull request and not push request

🤝 Ted Nyman shared on how to improve backend performance

🤝 Ryan Castillo shared how to easily add prefixes to files with bash’s bracket expansion

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞Vipul A M published a new edition about Ruby on Rails ; Rails 7.2 released, Thruster by default for Rails 8, new Guides PRs, and much more! and about Deferred routes drawing, connect route helper and more

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition about Rails 7.2 released

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 33 - RubyMine adds Stimulus Support, sharing Turbo Frames across views, and more!

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new edition about Issue 430 - Sonic Pi: Ruby as a Composition Tool

🗞 Sajjad Umar published a new edition of Ruby on Rails Monthly - August 2024

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 The Ruby on Rails podcast published a new episode about about The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 521: Euruko with Muhamed Isabegovic

🎧 Dead Code Pod published a new podcast about Entangled Mess of Vines (with Stephanie Minn and Joel Quenneville) - Dead Code | Acast

🎧 Euruko published a new podcast about The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 521: Euruko with Muhamed Isabegovic

🎧 Andrew Mason published a new podcast about Authentication Generator in Rails 8, 20th anniversary of Rails, and more!

🎧 Thoughtbot published a new podcast about The Bike Shed: 436: Creating Conditions For Your Best Work with Steph Viccari

📽️ 🎥 Videos

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published a new video about SupeRails | Getting Started with Turbo Native in Ruby on Rails and about SupeRails | Rails 7.2 Rate limiting for Devise - Guard your app from spam and bots

🎥 Chris Oliver published a new video about How to use the Browser Guard in Rails and about Defer Job Enqueues After Transaction Commit in Rails 7.2 and about How to use Omakase Rubocop Linter/Formatter Rules for Rails

🎥 Drifting Ruby published a new video about Kanban from Scratch Part 2 | Drifting Ruby and about Have I Been Pwned

🎥 Ruby Argentina published a new video about Refactoring en Ruby: Elevating Code Quality Through Community And Practice

🎥 Phil Smy published a new video about Rails 7.2 RC1 is Here

🎥 Ken Greeff published a new video about Building a CRUD App with Next.js & Rails API

🎥 Thoughtbot published a new video about Resurrecting an Untouched Rails App

🎥 Jeremy Smith published a new video about Update from building Liminal

🎥 Arkency published a new video about Rebuilding read models. How to deal with concurrently published events?

🎥 Jason Swett published a new video about Adding Filter by Status - Live Coding on SaturnCI

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Thomas Cannon published a new article about Fixing the Rails 7+ networking stack

🆕 Vladimir Dementyev published a series of articles about TestProf → Start with TestProf: a good doctor for slow Ruby tests 

🆕 Andrew Atkinson published an article about What’s Coming in Ruby on Rails 7.2: Database Features in Active Record

🆕 Andrew Atkinson published a new article about Madison+ Ruby 2024 Conference Recap

🆕 Igor Alexandrov published a new article about Upgrading Rails application from 7.1 to 7.2 | Ruby & Beyond

🆕 Evil Marians published an article about The SDK Imperative: why developer tools live or die by their SDKs—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

🆕 Aaron Francis published a new article about An argument for logging off - Aaron Francis

🆕 Mika Henriksson published a new article about how Kamal deploy renders site unresponsive

🆕 The Ruby Dev published a new article about Rails 8 introduces a basic authentication generator - DEV Community

🆕 Julian Rubisch published a new article about An Introduction to HTTP Caching in Ruby On Rails

🆕 Dave Kimura published a new article about My Development Environment on macOS 15 Sequoia and about Rails 7.2 Upgrade Problems (of my own making)

🆕 Anonoz Chong published a new article about Setup Guide for Ruby on Rails Testing on Github Actions with Minitest + Capybara + Chrome | OyenCov Blog & Guides

🆕 Apoorv Tiwari published a new article about What Is New In Rails 7.2?

🆕 Noel Rappin published a new article about What About Static Typing in Ruby?

🆕 Kasper Timm Hansen published a new article about Why is Oaken: for your database seeds & test data

🆕 Vitalii Yulieff published an article about Railing against time: tools and techniques that got us 5X faster tests

🆕 Lucian Ghinda published an article about Proposal to change private method to work on Constants in Ruby

How-TOs 📝

📝 Ross Kaffenberger published a new article about How to Render CSS Dynamically in Rails

📝 Rails Designer published an article about Nested Forms With Turbo (without dependencies) and about Nested Layouts with Ruby on Rails | Rails Designer

📝 Steve Polito published an article about Conditionally render a Turbo Frame shared between multiple views

📝 Aysan Isayo published an article about From Code to Compliance: Accessibility Testing in Rails Applications

📝 Matt Brictson published an article about Build a modal form with Rails, Turbo, and the dialog element

📝  Joël Quenneville published a new article about Return an Enumerator When Your Collection Has Multiple Traversals

📝 Mika Henriksson published a new article about Taggable Array and about mhenrixon | A custom date picker

📝 Jon Sully published an article about Sidekiq (Infinitely) Iterable Jobs

📝 Sara Jackson published on how to Conditionally render a Turbo Frame shared between multiple views

📝 Landon Gray published a new article about Building a ChatGPT Clone with Ruby on Rails and Claude 3.5 Sonnet

📝 Renato Nitta published a new article about How to set up Rails 7 with Bootstrap - Renato Nitta

📝 Jospin Ndagano published a new article about Using Action Cable for Real-Time Applications in Ruby on Rails

📝Andres Chacon published an article about Creating a REST API with Ruby on Rails. Chapter 3: Authentication and Authorization