Short Ruby News - Edition #106

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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 a new series of videos about tips and best practices for Rails → Rails in Focus

🚀 Alexandre Ruban (pre)launched The New Authentication Generator:

📅 Events

📅 Friendly.Rb shared an update about speakers, tickets and outdoor activities. Read the full thread here

📅 Ahmed Nadar announced AppSignal’s Guide to Toronto

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉  Takashi Kokubun shared Ruby 3.3.5 Released. Read the release notes here.

👉 Charles Oliver Nutter published an article describing what’s next for JRuby:

👉 David Heinemeier Hansson announced that Solid Cache and Solid Queue are set as default for Rails 8:  

💻 Code Samples

️️💻 Xavier Noria shared about Ruby not having a syntax for types:

️💻 Kevin Newton shared about Ruby grammar:

️💻 Matt Swanson shared a code sample about implementing rate limiting in Rails 7.2:

💻 Remi Mercier shared a code sample showing how they implemented chainable scopes:

️💻 Igor Alexandrov shared a simple quiz about Ruby false values:  

I suspect you already know the answer, but if you need to see it, it is here or directly in the Ruby documentation

️💻 Vincent Rolea shared how they built dialogs:

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared how they implemented an OOP-style contract interface:

️💻 Fabian shared about manually associate records in Rails:

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared about using Array#none:

️💻 Greg Molnar shared a code sample about creating a new rails app from main:

️💻 Alazycoder shared about a rake task to check migrations:

️💻 Andrea Fomera shared a code sample about organizing Rails routes:

️💻 Joel Drapper shared they build only for documentation purposes a mini-version of Phlex:

️💻 Seth Horsley shared a code sample about using defined? to check for a dependency:

️ 💻 Jean Boussier shared a thread about hash access:

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared about using Active Record connection_pool.stat

️💻 Ross Kaffenberger shared a code sample about mixing Phlex with ERB:

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared about using Rails extract_options! method:

️💻 Josef Strzibny shared a code sample about using EXPLAIN ANALYZE from Rails:

️💻 Oli Nelson shared a code sample about using Sinatra to server static web server:

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐 Jorge Manrubia shared about system tests and running CI locally:

️📐 Igor Alexandrov recommended using annotate_models gem to make it simpler for AI to understand Rails models:

️️📐 Nate Berkopec shared about connection pool size:

️📐 Jess Brown asked about morphing and scroll preserve:

Konnor Rogers shared a possible solution:

️📐 Samuel Williams shared about making WebSockets proxy work between HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 for Falcon:

️📐 Marc Köhlbrugge shared about memory usage drop off after enabling Jemalloc for their Rails app:

️📐 Jeremy Smith asked about building notifications for their new project:

Among many answers received, Stephen Margheim shared a gist detailing an analysis:

️📐 Landon Gray asked about what vector DB are used by Rails shops:

Here are some answers:

• faiss-ruby, storing on S3/GCS

• pg_vector

• Mongo Atlas Vector

• Pinecone

️📐 Jared Norman asked about RSpec or Minitest:

There are a lot of answers there; here is a short selection of some of them:

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

💡 Nick Schwaderer shared a thread about how RubyGems web page evolved with time:

💡 Juraj Kostolanský shared that they cannot use Rails in a domain name:

💡 David Heinemeier Hansson shared this performance benchmark:

This post triggered some people outside the Ruby and Rails community, and then some people from the community responded. Here is a selection of replies:

💡 Alex Rudall shared they reached 73 Ruby/Rails companies on their open repo:

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Pierre Adrien shared about using Sinatra:

❤️ Chris Kottom shared about how Ruby is easy to read:

❤️ Donn Felker shared about rewriting an app from React and Node to Rails:

❤️ J Clarke shared about building startups with Rails:

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Paweł Urbanek published a new gem called pg-locks-monitor - A simple tool to observe PostgreSQL database locks in Rails apps

🧰 Updates

🧰 Avo announced a new version about v3.12.0 - DateTime filter, new custom components and many Dynamic Filters improvements

🧰 Joel Drapper announced that Phlex 2.0 alpha is ready for testing 🏗️ · phlex-ruby · Discussion #769 · GitHub

🧰 Josef Strzibny announced a new version of Release v0.8.0 · wmlele/devise-otp · GitHub

🧰 Zacharias Knudsen merged a PR to Rails Add support for SQLite3 full-text-search and other virtual tables by zachasme · Pull Request #52354

🧰 Greg Navis announced a new version of active_record_doctor with Drop support for Active Record 6.0 and older (#183) · gregnavis/active_record_doctor@778178e · GitHub

🧰 Nate Berkopec announced a new version of benchmark-ips → Release 2.14 Akagi · evanphx/benchmark-ips

🧰 Akira Matsuda announced a new version of simplecov-html

👀 Keep an eye on

👀 Ruby Dev Meeting happened on 5th September. See the meeting log here. Here are some parts of the meeting:

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝️ Andrey Sitnik shared they updated the favicon guide How to Favicon in 2024: Six files that fit most needs

🤝 Uncle Bob Martin shared a thread about benefits of OOP:

🤝 Nate Berkopec shared about autoscaling based on CPU for background jobs:

🤝 Adrian Marin shared about adding the email to Github profile:

🤝 Guillermo Rauch shared 

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

Kevin Newton shared their slides about Why Prism?

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Ruby On Rails published a new edition about Ruby on Rails — Solid Cache and Queue as default backends and more

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 36 - Lazy-load Turbo Frames early, Turbo Laravel Morphing Support, and more!

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition about Real-time Ruby profiling

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new edition Issue 433 - Say No To Partials And Helpers For A Maintainable Rails Front-End

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Jeremy Smith published a new video about Week 5 - Riffing on Topic Subscriptions

🎧 Ode To Rails Conf published a new podcast about Nadia Odunayo

🎧 John Nunemaker published a new podcast about Pricing

🎧 Indie Rails published a new podcast about Job Boarding with Jason Charnes

🎧 Thoughtbot published a new podcast about The Bike Shed: 438: Writing abstractions in tests

🎧 Luca Rossi published a new podcast with David Heinemeier Hansson 

🎧 Remote Ruby published a new podcast about Andrew is Triggered by Jason Cs JSON B Columns

📽️ 🎥 Videos

🎥 Evil Martians published a new video about SF Bay Area Ruby Meetup #6 at GitHub on September 3

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published a new video about Build an international company search engine

🎥 Drifting Ruby published a new video about Ruby or Rails

🎥 Josh Pigford published a new video about Rails multi-app servers with Hetzner, Digital Ocean and Hatchbox

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Adam McCrea published an article about Say No To Partials And Helpers For A Maintainable Rails Front-End

🆕 Charles Oliver Nutter published an article about JRuby: Upcoming Projects – Charles Oliver Nutter – Java, Ruby, and JVM guy trying to make sense of it all

🆕 Zeke Gabrielse published a new article about Licensing is packaging

🆕 Bill Tihen published an article about Ruby 3.x - Lazy Evaluation, prioritized algorithms

🆕 Ruby Central published an article about Ruby Central Welcomes Marty Haught as Interim Lead for RubyGems and Bundler

🆕 Julian Rubisch published a new article about Betterstimulus | Targetless Controllers

🆕 Rails Designer published an article about Refactor Stimulus.js Controllers to Use Change Callbacks

🆕 Jonathan Greenberg published an article about How Can You Do it? Well, It Prepends...

🆕 Brandon Weaver published a series of articles about Let’s Read – Eloquent Ruby – Ch 7, Let’s Read – Eloquent Ruby – Ch 8, Let’s Read – Eloquent Ruby – Ch 9 and about Let’s Read - Eloquent Ruby - Ch 10

🆕 Carlos Pohlod published an article about Understanding complex Rails projects – Ruby on rails stack trace made easy

🆕 Kevin Sylvestre published a new article about Using OmniAI to Convert PDFs to Markdown with LLMs

🆕 Prasanth Chaduvula published an article about Rails 7.1 Adds *_deliver Callbacks To ActionMailer

How-TOs 📝

📝 Lawrence Gripper published a new article about shared  Beautiful, Short, IDs in GraphQL (or other things) with SQIDs

📝 Akshay Khot published an article about Routing Concerns in Rails

📝 Luigi Antonio Guillen published an article about Ruby Debugging, VS Code, Gems, and Bundler!

📝 Hugo Vast published an article about Effortless Feature Management in Rails : A Guide to Using Flipper with Active Admin

📝 Luigi Antonio Guillen published an article about How to Install Ruby on Windows, macOS, and Linux

📝 JT Dev published an article about Working with LLMs in Ruby on Rails: A Simple Guide

📝 Edvardas Baravykas published an article about Ruby on Rails Boilerplate: Vite, Tailwind, Stimulus

📝 Vijay Vinod published an article about Upgrade Ruby using dual boot

📝 Radan Skoric published an article about How to load a lazy loaded turbo frame a bit before it scrolls into view

📝 Rails Designer published an article about Building Nested Forms in Rails with Stimulus

Related

Sara Soueidan published a new article about Should form labels be wrapped or separate?