Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 113

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Table of Contents

• 🚀 Launches and discounts

• 📅 Events

• 👉 All about Code and Ruby

• 🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

• 🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

• More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

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🚀 Launches and discounts

🚀 Ruby Cademy launched Presale: RubyCademy Cards - 1st Edition

🚀 Rob Race launched Rails Simple Auth - Unlock Rails 8 Authentication

📅 Events

📅 Brighton Ruby announced videos from 2024 are up and the tickets for 2025 are on sale

👉 Ruby Conf shared about Ruby Conf Hack Day

📅 Check RubyConferences.org for meetups or conferences happening this week and don’t forget to submit yours if you are organising one.

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Takashi Kokubun announced Ruby 3.3.6 Released

Postmodern announced that Ruby 3.3.6 is added to ruby-install: Installs Ruby, JRuby, TruffleRuby, or mruby

👉 David Heinemeier Hansson announced Rails 8.0: No PaaS Required

Nony Dutton added:

👉 J Ruby Dev Team announced a new version of JRuby 9.4.9.0 Released

👉 Hanami announced Hanami 2.2: Persistence pays off

👉 Andy Croll is looking for more mentors for Find a mentor in the Ruby community | First Ruby Friend

💻 Code Samples

️💻 Xavier Noria shared about using Module#set_temporary_name:

Other ways to achieve the same:

💻 Samuel Williams shared in context of running bundler in paralell about configuring MAKEFLAGs:

️💻 Josh Branchaud shared about Prefer select_all Over execute For Read Queries

💻 Ufuk Kayserilioglu shared about the all-ruby tool

💻 Thiago Araujo shared a code sample

️💻 RoR vs Wild shared about importing a lot of records:

️ Esparta shared a code sample about literals - Documentation for Ruby 3.4

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared a code sample about normalizes macro:

️💻 Lucian Ghinda shared about ruby/debug gem:

️💻 Ahmed Nadar shared Common Issues with Rails Textarea Whitespace Behaviour

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared about using immutable_string:

they also shared about:

️💻 Brad Gessler shared a code sample about using Phlex:

️💻 Yaroslav Shmarov shared how they implemented Cmd+Enter for submitting comments:

️💻 Vincent Rolea shared about implementing resume the session:

💻 Stan Lo announced that RDoc got ancestor list in the class page’s sidebar thanks to Alex Bernard contribution:

💻 Maciej Mensfeld shared about Precompute embedded string literals hash code by etiennebarrie · Pull Request #10596

💻 Samuel Williams shared a benchmark about the performance of async-http + protocol-http + protocol-rack:

️💻 ítalo Matos shared a code sample about Refinements:

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐 Jorge Manrubia shared about Systematic system tests considered harmful

️📐 Jason Swett shared about how to think about authorization:

️📐 Benjamín Silva H. shared the performance from enabling jemalloc:

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

💡Ruby On Rails shared [RF-DOCS] Action Controller Overview and Advanced Topics Guides [ci-skip] by bhumi1102 · Pull Request #53551 · rails/rails

💡 Colby Swandale shared they are introducing a Maintainer Role at RubyGems Blog

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Typecraft shared about Rails 8:

❤️ Irina Nazarova shared about being louder about Ruby:

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Olly Headey open-sourced their web-app - pagecord - A minimalist blogging app powered by email

🆕 Stephen Margheim announced a new gem called chaotic_job - Test ActiveJobs for reliability and resilience

🆕 Nate Hopkins announced a new gem local_bus: A lightweight pub/sub system for decoupled intra-process communication in Ruby applications

You can see a demo of LocalBus on Youtube.

🆕 John Hawthorn announced a new gem delta_debug - This implements Andreas Zeller's Delta Debugging ddmin algorithm, which aims to take a failing test input and reduce it to a smaller failing input

🆕 Alessandro Rodi announced a new gem of hotsheet: Manage your database with a simple and familiar web interface

🆕 Vladislav Trotsenko published a new gem called ruby-rspec-mock - RSpec dual mocking compatibility. Use RSpec's mocks as secondary, alongside a primary, alternative mocking library.

🧰 Updates

🧰 Avo announced a new version of Avo 3.14 - π - Explicit authorization, reload individual rows, and eject controllers

🧰 Jean Boussier announced a new release of ruby/json 

🧰 Peter Solnica announced a new version of dry-rb - dry-operation v1.0 - Introduction

🧰 Jeremy Evans announced a new version of by 1.1.0 Released · jeremyevans/by · Discussion #5

🧰 Mari Imaizumi announced a new version of Release v0.5.11 · ruby/reline · GitHub

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Samuel Williams shared about default configurations:

️🤝 Xavier Noria shared about API docs:

🤝 Jason Swett shared about programming as creative work:

️🤝 Jeremy Smith an advice about setting up AWS S3 buckets for developers:

🤝 Bilal Hussain shared lesser-known (or better said used) HTML features (here is the first part - but click to see the entire image)

🤝 Kyrylo Silin shared about Zsh repeat command:

🤝 Akash Manohar shared about setting Stripe:

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 This Week In Rails published a new article about Rails 8.0: No PaaS Required

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new article about Week 45 - Hotwire Live Reload, Alpine.js as an alternative, and more!

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new article about This one's for Jason Seifer

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new article about Issue 442 - Low-poly image generation using evolutionary algorithms in Ruby

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 The Rails Changelog published a new podcast about The Rails Changelog | 028: Discussing Ruby’s Data class, some Ruby quirks with Victor Shepelev

🎧 David Hill published a new episode of Ode to RailsConf about Ashley Ellis Pearce

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

🎧 Thoughtbot published a new podcast about The Bike Shed: 445: Working Iteratively

🎧 RemoteRuby published a new podcast about Solid Cable with Nick Pezza

📽️ 🎥 Videos

🎥 Ruby Conf published a new video about Ruby Talks: Sebastian Suttner of Cedarcode on Supporting Ruby Central & RubyConf

🎥 Confreaks, Llc published the videos from Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024

🎥 Emmanuel Hayford published a new video about How to Create a Custom Offline Fallback Page with Rails

🎥 Dean De Hart published a new video about Rails 8 FTP Server with Kamal 2 and SFTP Go

🎥 Thoughtbot published a new video about AI in Focus: Answer questions from internal documentation with AI

🎥 Jeremy Smith published a new video about This week I setup 2 CDNs for Liminal, here's how (and why)...

🎥 Kaleb Lape published a new video about Your Rails app security checklist and about Three reasons CSS-Zero belongs in your Rails 8 stack

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

Ruby Central published an article about A New Chapter for RubyGems: How Ruby Central is Building a Sustainable Future

Kasper Timm Hansen published an article about How to Grok a Rails Application for the First Time

Julian Rubisch published an article about The Ultimate Guide to implementing Hotwire and Turbo in a Rails application

Andrey Marchenko published an article about How We Built a Ruby Library That Saves 50% in Testing Time

Andrea Fomera published an article about Why (and when!) I use ViewComponents

Thomas Countz published an article about Low-Poly Image Generation using Evolutionary Algorithms in Ruby

Felipe Vogel published an article about Alpine.js as a Stimulus alternative | Felipe Vogel

Joël Quenneville published a new article about 4 tips when getting started with Hotwire

Greg Molnar published a new article about Deploying a Jekyll site with Kamal

Hugo Vast published an article about My journey to send 100 mails to 500k effortlessly

Dimiter Petrov published a new article about "We don't deploy on Fridays"

Julián Pinzón Eslava published an article about Customising Single Table Inheritance mapping in Active Record

William Kennedy published a new article about Up and Running with Hotwire Native iOS 3 - Bridge Components

JetThoughts published an article about Ruby on Rails 8: Custom Compression for Encrypted Data

Alexandre Barret published an article about Perfecting Your Rails Form: Nested Attributes

BestWeb Ventures published an article about Ruby on Rails 8 Concurrency Guide: Modern Parallel Processing and about Web Application Security in Ruby on Rails: A Comprehensive Guide 2024

Joey Wang published an article about From CI Nightmares to Reliable Builds: A Developer's Guide to Retry Mechanisms

Prasanth Chaduvula published an article about Rails 7.1 Adds exclude? And extract_value methods To ActionController::Parameters

Ahmed Nadar published an article about Common Issues with Rails Textarea Whitespace Behaviour

Rails Designer published a new article about Store UI State in localStorage with Stimulus

How-TOs 📝

Exequiel Rozas published a new article about Friendly URLs with the FriendlyId gem

Mika Henriksson published an article about How to use kamal destinations and about Server provisioning for a kamal setup

Paul Sturgess published an article about How to Deploy a Ruby on Rails Application to Katapult Using Kamal 2

Stefan Wienert published an article about Postfix + ActionMailbox - integrating into existing postfix server by using aliases + curl command

Shah Zaib published an article about Handling Errors and Job Lifecycles in Rails 7.1: Master ActiveJob with retry_on, discard_on, and after_discard

Kevin Sylvestre published an article about Using GraphQL with LLMs in Ruby

Related

Reni Mercier published an article about Poking around PostgreSQL full-text search: a beginners primer