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Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 114

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 114

The one where we find out what's next for Rails and SQLite, with the new Rails demo and where Nick invites us to discover their blog via DRB

Lucian Ghinda
November 18, 2024

🚀 Launches and discounts
📅 Events
👉 All about Code and Ruby
🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates
- 👀 Keep an eye on
🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)
More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾
- How-TOs 📝

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🚀 Launches and discounts

🚀 Josh Branchaud launched Ruby Operator* Lookup

Source: @jbranchaud.bsky.social

🚀 Andrea Rocca launched blackfridaycapitalist.com - a pay to play directory of Black Friday deals

Source: @ilrock__

🚀 Mikkel Malmberg launched Nitro Kit - is a set of generic UI components to help you build your Ruby on Rails application

Source: @mikker

🚀 Tonton Cyber launched ShipOnRails AI - a specialized and up-to-date AI for Ruby on Rails developers with Rails 8, Kamal, Turbo, Stimulus, and more than 100 gems

Source: @tontoncyber_fr

📅 Events

📅 Jason Swett announced that tickets for SinCityRuby are now on sale:

Source: @JasonSwett

📅 Ruby Conf invites us to share our interest in the final RailsConf in 2025:

Source: @rubyconf

📅 Greg Molnar announced they are thinking of organizing a Ruby conference in Furnas, on Sao Miguel island of the Azores. The vote ended but if you are interested you should reply to Greg and let him know about your interest:

Source: @GregMolnar

📅 There are 15 meetups happening this week. Check RubyConferences.org for when and where they are happening.

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 David Heinemeier Hansson shared about what’s next for Rails and SQLite: making it suitable for SaaS on the scale of Basecamp:

Source: @dhh

He also shared a Rails 8: The Demo

Source: @dhh

💻 Code Samples

💻 Nick Schwaderer published the most exciting way to read blog posts and interact with it:

Source: @schwad_rb

️💻 Xavier Noria shared a code sample about

Source: @fxn.bsky.social

️💻 Victor Shepelev shared a code sample about implementing Elixir-like pipes in Ruby

Source: @zverok

💻 James shared a code sample about Download file using multiple parallel Range requests

Source: [email protected]

Here is just a part of the shared script:

# https://gist.github.com/floehopper/fe59485e96c6f856a9c060b892d03f00
# ... 
hydra = Typhoeus::Hydra.new
parts = []

ranges.each_with_index do |range, index|
  request = Typhoeus::Request.new(url, headers: { "Range" => range })
  request.on_complete do |response|
    if response.success?
      file_name = "part_#{index}"
      File.write(file_name, response.body)
      parts << file_name
      puts response.headers["Content-Range"]
      puts "Downloaded part #{index}: #{response.code}"
    else
      puts "Failed to download part #{index}: #{response.code}"
    end
  end
  hydra.queue(request)
end

hydra.run

File.open(filename, "wb") do |output|
  parts.each do |part|
    File.open(part, "rb") do |input|
      IO.copy_stream(input, output)
    end
  end
end

parts.each { |part| File.delete(part) }

puts "Download complete: #{filename}"

️💻 Jorge Manrubia shared a codes sample to replicate Bug #20890: MacOS 15.1, Macbook pro 2024 m4, YJIT: Kernel Panic on network access, works w/o YJIT - Ruby master - Ruby Issue Tracking System

Source: @jorgemanru

💻️ Jeremy Smith shared a code sample about

Source: @jeremysmith.co

💻️ RoRvsWild shared a code sample about stop waiting for Redis responses with pipelining:

Source: @rorvswild.com

️💻 Emmanuel Hayford shared about using polynomially_longer in Rails 8:

Source: @siaw23

️💻 Nick Schwaderer shared a code sample about using bloopsaphone:

Source: @schwad_rb

️💻 Adrian Marin shared about optimising Appsignal when deploying on Hatchbox:

Source: @adrianthedev

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared a code sample about a class inheriting from self :

Source: @RubyCademy

💻️ Lucian Ghinda shared a code sample about

Source: @lucianghinda.com

💻️ Kuba Suder shared a code sample about using a the skyfall gem to listen to the public stream of posts on Bluesky:

Source: @mackuba.eu

️💻 Lukasz Reszke shared about upgrading to Rails:

Source: @lreszke

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared a code sample about using scoping in rails:

Source: @RubyCademy

they also shared a code sample about using all_queries:

Source: @RubyCademy

️💻 Greg Molnar shared about defining aliases in Kamal:

Source: @GregMolnar

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared about using before? and after? in Rails to do date-related calculations:

Source: @RubyCademy

they also share a code sample about defining has_many instead scopes:

Source: @RubyCademy

📐 Thinking about Code Design

📐 ️Adam Fortuna shared about migrating from Next.js to Ruby on Rails + Inertia. I am adding here two posts, but you should read the entire thread:

Source: @adamfortuna.com

They also shared they are using this gem grover - to generate OG images

️📐 Jason Swett shared about service objects:

Source: @JasonSwett

Here are two replies:

Source: @inemation

Source: @lreszke

Not a directly reply to Jason post but somehow related:

Source: @fariastweets

️📐 Igor Alexandrov shared dev-sec/ansible-collection-hardening: This Ansible collection provides battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, nginx, MySQL and about kamal server :

Source: @igor_alexandrov

️📐 Nate Berkopec shared a reaction to the new DHH Rails video:

Source: @nateberkopec

️📐 Michael Koper shared about how to approach webhooks:

Source: @michaelkoper

Here are some other ideas:

Source: @mbuckbee

Source: @jwkicklighter

️📐 Jason Swett asked about who is practicing or not TDD:

Source: @JasonSwett

Here are some replies:

Source: @mhenrixon

Source: @TheDumbTechGuy

Source: @bradgessler

Source: @cgenco

Source: @michaelkoper

Jason added about learning TDD:

Source: @JasonSwett

️📐 Nate Berkopec shared about setting the side of the database pool to 25 connections:

Source: @nateberkopec

️📐 Igor Alexandrov shared about simplicity in Ruby:

Source: @igor_alexandrov

Here are some of the replies:

Source: @onerinas

Source: @sudobooo

Source: @DeeperAndDowner

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

💡 In case you are planning to join Bluesky and want to follow people from Ruby and Rails community there are a couple of starter packs available (a starter pack is a curated collection of people to follow on a specific topic):