Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 115

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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

💸 I am starting to compile a list of deals for Ruby developers 👇 that I will probably send it next week as a separate email, but until then, I am compiling it as a page:

🚀 Kuba Suder launched https://sdk.blue - a collection of all SDKs about Bluesky:

🚀 Brian Casel launched Instrumental.dev - Rails UI Components to Build Better Products, Faster

🚀Zack Gilbert launched https://susanssudoku.com - a simple in browser Sudoku:

📅 Events

📅 Visuality announced the Ruby Community Conference - Winter 2025 and the first speaker:

📅 Paul Campbell shared they are thinking to organise a Ruby conference in Ireland:

📅 Balkan Ruby announced tickets for balkanruby.com

👉 All about Code and Ruby

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💻 Code Samples

💻 Xavier Noria shared about alias_method :

Jean Boussier added:

💻 Henrik Nyh shared a code sample about combining uniq and sole to check object classes:

️💻 Ross Kaffenberger shared about using Rails excluding and with:

💻 Josh Branchaud shared a code sample about executing a proc via ===:

If you want to understand more about how === works, I recommend this article by Brandon Weaver: Understanding Ruby—Triple Equals 

💻 Postmodern shared about how split handles trailing/leading occurrences:

💻 Kerrick Long shared about using the under-the-covers technique shared last week by Victor Shepelev in their article:

💻 Stanislav Katkov shared a code sample about Rubygems offering a way to manage webhooks:

💻 Gabriele Renzi shared about the performance difference between sum and doing the same with inject:

💻 Joe Clarke shared a code sample about implementing infinite scroll with Hotwire:

Scott Watermasysk shared a code sample about running Brakeman in CI:

Andreas Finger added:

💻 Anthony Drake shared a code sample about using Bluesky API:

💻 Sean Roberts shared a code sample about about implementing a cva.style for working with Tailwind clsases in Phlex/ViewComponent:

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared about using pick and ids vs pluck :

️💻 Greg Molnar shared about silencing the healthchecks in Rails 8:

On the same topic of reducing the among of logging Rob Zolkos shared

💻️ Emmanuel Hayford shared a code sample about how Rails allows explain on methods like first, pluck and similar ones:

Prem Sichanugrist shared a code sample about a small bash script to debug flaky tests:

💻 Onur Ozer shared a code sample about using truncate_words from Rails:

️💻 Samuel Williams shared a code sample about testing Async::Cable:

️💻 Emmanuel Hayford shared what Minitest supports executing tests within specific line ranges:

️💻 Adam Mc Crea asked about which version of the code would be good and why:

️💻 Emmanuel Hayford shared about using enqueue_after_transaction_commit to change how jobs are scheduled from inside a transaction:

Here is the problem:

and here how to configure the behavior:

️💻 Rob Zolkos shared a script to benchmark See Rails parallel test speed with various cores · GitHub

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared how to use Bundler inline:

️💻 Lucian Ghinda shared a thread about pattern matching:

💻️ Kane Jamison shared a code sample about adding a canonical URL:

️💻 Maciej Mensfeld shared a performance improvement for Rails Make FileUpdateChecker faster with many extensions by jdelStrother · Pull Request #53680 · rails/rails

️💻 Saeloun shared about generating controllers in Rails with --parent option:

️💻 Samuel Williams shared a code sample asking about introducing Thread::Promise in Ruby:

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐Russ Olsen asked about what’s the most exciting thing that happened in the last 5 years in Ruby:

Here are some replies:

📐 Mike Perham shared a benchmark between Sidekiq and SolidQueue:

Andreas Finger added:

📐 Enrico Pilotto asked about advisory lock:

Rosa Gutierrez replied with:

️📐 Brandon Weaver shared about modularity:

️📐 Benjamin Wood shared about the responsibility of a Rails controller:

On the same topic ️Adrien Siami shared:

️📐 Greg Molnar shared about security:

️📐 Dimitri Bosch shared about needing es-module-shims with Rails 8:

️📐 Rob Zolkos shared about config/environments/* file being empty:

️📐 Igor Alexandrov shared about performanc eimprovements from updating to Ruby 3.3.5 with jemalloc:

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Noel Rappin shared about Ruby stuff they want to try:

❤️ Rowen Willabus shared they are using Rails to deploy a Rails app to help farmers:

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Chris Oliver announced a new gem black_friday: Black Friday sales in your Rails apps (see a short video where Chris explains the gem)

🆕 Samuel Williams announced a new repository socketry/async-cable

🆕 Vladimir Dementyev published a new branch about Demo: pglite & electric-sql by palkan · Pull Request #7 · palkan/rails-on-wasm-playground

🆕 Lucas Mendelowski announced a new repository hotwire-htmx-unpoly: Simple TODO application built with Rails to compare Hotwire, HTMX and Unpoly

🆕 Rails Designer published a new gem stealth_dom_id - Extends Rails dom_id helper to support custom attribute-based identifiers

🆕Evgeniy Demin published a new gem called database_schema_ownership - Provide an easy way to manage code ownership over a database schema

🧰 Updates

🧰 Nate Berkopec announced a new version of Release 6.5.0 - Sky’s Version · puma/puma · GitHub

🧰Bridgetown announced a new version Performance Boost with Bridgetown 2.0 Beta 3

🧰 Jeremy Evans announced a new version of Rodauth 2.37.0 Released · jeremyevans/rodauth · Discussion #455

🧰Bozhidar Batsov shared a conversation about deprecation of parser in Ruby: Soft deprecation of the project? · Issue #1046 · whitequark/parser. This is an important conversation for a variety of toll in Ruby including Rubocop:

Bozhidar Batsov added:

🧰 Gift Egwuenu announced an update October 2024 RubyGems Updates

🧰 Samuel Williams announced a new pull request for Ruby about Introduce Fiber::Scheduler#blocking_operation_wait. (#12016) · ruby/ruby@9c26830

🧰 John Nunemaker announced an update of Flipper gem:

🧰 Mike Dalessio announced an update about sqlite3 gem:

🧰 Josef Strzibny announced a new version of devise-otp: Two Factors authentication for Devise using Time Based OTP/rfc6238 tokens

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Git Hub shared Announcing GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Help secure the open source ecosystem for everyone

🤝 Stephen Margheim shared pglite-fusion: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table. AKA multitenancy has been solved.

🤝 Jonathan Markwell shared an advice about how to choose the DB:

🤝 Gregory Brown shared about what a good architecture is:

🤝 Will Boyd shared about using infinity constant in CSS:

🤝 Prem Sichanugrist shared about separating personal emails for Git:

🤝 Adam Wathan announced Tailwind CSS 4.0 - beta1:

🤝 Joël Quenneville shared about designing APIs:

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

👉 Charles Oliver Nutter shared their slides about Building JRuby: How We Implement Ruby on the JVM - Speaker Deck

👉 Jeremy Evans shared their slides about 10 Years of Roda

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 This Week In Rails published a new edition about Active Support’s NotificationAssertions and sql.active_record gets affected_rows

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition about DHH is screencasting again

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 47 - Sweet Streams, Turbo considered harmful?, and more!

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new edition about Issue 444 - Why did people rub snow on frozen feet? (2017)

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Adrian Marin and Yaroslav Shmarov published a new episode of Friendly.show - November 2024. Black Friday deals, SupeRails PRO, Hotwire Native, Office Hours 

🎧 The Bike Shed published a new podcast about The Bike Shed: 447: How to (not) implement impersonation

🎧 Alisa Cohn published a new podcast about Episode 80 - David Heinemeier Hansson

🎧 Thoughtbot published a new podcast about Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots: 551: System Design is a Team Sport with Tom Johnson

🎧 Ruby Rogues published a new podcast about Embracing Human Factors and Rapid Development in Ruby on Rails Systems - RUBY 661

📽️ 🎥 Videos

🎥 Ruby Central shared a video about The Challenges of Building a Sigstore Implementation from Scratch - Samuel Giddins, Ruby Central

🎥 Kaleb Lape published a new video about Rails development in 2024

🎥 Joe Masilotti published a new video about Hotwire Native live coding

🎥 Ruby Türkiye published a new video about Leveling Up Developer Tooling For The Modern Rails & Hotwire Era - Marco Roth

🎥 Thoughtbot published a new video about AI in Focus: Information summarization using an LLM

🎥 Jet Brains Ruby Mine published a new video about What’s New in Rails 8 and How RubyMine Supports It

🎥 Brad Gessler published a new video about Manage content with Sitepress in Rails apps or static websites

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

Avo published an article about What’s new in Rails 8

Ruby Central published an article about Securing Ruby’s Future: How Ruby Central is Strengthening Security

Chetan Mittal published an article about Ultimate Rails Security Guide: Best Practices for Ruby on Rails Applications in 2025

Hùng Lê published an article about Concurrency in Ruby: Thread and Fiber - DEV Community

Ayush Newatia published an article about Rack for Ruby: Socket Hijacking

Noel Rappin published an article about Object Constellations

Rails Designer published an article about Inheritance with Stimulus Controller

Lucas M. published a new article about Transaction Safety in Rails: Identifying and Addressing Non-Atomic Interactions

Prasanth Chaduvula published an article about Rails 7.1 Adds Rails.application.deprecators Method

Aysan Isayo published an article about Upgrade Rails From 7.2 to 8.0

Chetan Mittal published an article about Comprehensive Guide to Implementing Content Security Policies in Ruby on Rails 8

How-TOs 📝

Avo published an article about Adding a sitemap to a Rails app

Steve Polito published an article about Process slow network requests with Turbo and Active Model

Guillaume published an article about Deploying production, staging and review apps environments automatically with Kamal on CI/CD | Guillaume Briday

Ben Sheldon published an article about Keep your secrets.yml in Rails 7.2+

JD Gonzales published an article about Kamal Tip - Private Network only Database Server

Rails Designer published an article about Add Sign Up to Rails 8’ Authentication

Steve Polito published a new article about Process slow network requests with Turbo and Active Model

Mintbit published a new article about Best Practices for Adding a Boolean Column in Rails: A Case Study

Jared White published an article about Dissecting Bridgetown 2.0’s Signalize-based Fast Refresh

Denis Defreyne published an article about The intricacies of implementing memoization in Ruby

Jeremy Kreutzbender published an article about Adding Email Address Verification in Rails 8