Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 120

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

🚀 Chris Oliver is launching a complete Hotwire course!

🚀 Aaron Francis announced their partnership with Stephen Margheim for their first rails course highleveragerails.com

📅 Events

📅 Balticruby extended call for proposals till 1st February, 2025

📅 Wroclove.Rb has opened their call for proposals for conference happening from April 11-13, 2025

👉 All about Code and Ruby

📔 Jean Boussier published a new article about The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App

Jean Boussier published also two more very interesting articles about Instrumenting Thread Stalling in Ruby Applications and about Why Does Everyone Hate fork(2)?

📔 Noel Rappin published an article about Better Know A Ruby Thing: Singleton Classes

📔 Jakob Skjerning published an article Caution: Be careful using ActiveRecords STI

💻 Code Samples

️💻 Xavier Noria asked a question about checking presence:

Ara replied with:

️💻 Joey Wang shared a code sample to list nested app.call chain in Ruby

️💻 Matheus Richard shared a sample on how to use it to improve readability

️💻 Ruby Cademy shares an example on application of find_sole_by()

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️💻 Sebastian Wilgosz tells us how to have default gems installed for new ruby versions automatically

️💻 James Hibbard shared a gist on How to set up a basic Sinatra + React webapp

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared a rails command line code to generate polymorphic references

Here is how to control method visibility using delegate:

️💻 Nidhi Sarvaiya shared code samples using ‘it’ block parameter

💻 Paul Mucur shared Securing Rails Applications — Ruby on Rails Guides

💻 Ara Hacopian shared:

💻 Joel Drapper shared a code sample about data sturctures in Plume

💻 Kyrylo Silin shared a code sample about using it:

💻 Kuba Suder shared two Ruby scripts for printing statistics about users on Bluesky: scans listed accounts and scans your home timeline:

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️️📐 Nate Berkopec talks about how you are missing out on saving your application’s memory usage if you aren’t making use of jemalloc

️📐 Mika Henriksson talks over the discussion that frameworks are like urbanism

️📐 Gavin Morrice shared about PORO naming:

️📐 Jason Swett shared his thoughts on the argument that service objects makes code easier to test:

Jake Moffatt says he is searching for good codebases that demonstrates not using service objects:

️Mike Coutermarsh and Ebi You joins in on the discussion:

️ Andrei Maxim replied:

️Here is what Jose Farias thinks about the same:

️Abraham adds his comments too

️Gavin Morrice quoted:

️Michael Chaney added:

📐 Brandon Weaver shared about what is missing in Rails when talking about scaling:

📐 Yaroslav Shmarov shared a code sample about organising configuration at the end of the files:

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

💡 Amanda Brooke Perino discovers that DigiD is built on rails

💡 Ruby Central shared Ruby Central Welcomes New Board Members & Announces Officer Appointments

💡 Nate Berkopec shared a rails PR that changes ActiveRecord connection pools

💡 Mike Dalessio looks out for suggestions:

💡 Yukihiro Matz shared a report Salaries by Skill - 2025 Dice Tech Salary Report - Tech Professionals. Please notice the sample size before deciding how you interpret this report.

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Aji Slater wrote an article about Why Rails in 2025?

❤️ Victor Shepelev shared about how Ruby has most of the core concepts from the beginning:

❤️ Nate Hopkins shared a code sample about Ruby’s predicates:

❤️ Typecraft shared about Ruby having Hotwired:

❤️ Lee Wynne shared about why t hey are choosing Ruby in 2025:

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Joel Drapper announced a new gem difftastic-ruby - Ruby interface for Difftastic

🆕 Marco Roth announced a new gem minitest-difftastic: Minitest Plugin to use difftastic for diffing

🆕 Aaron Allen announced a new gem sai - An elegant color management system for crafting sophisticated CLI applications

🆕 Mario Alberto Chávez announced maquina_components: Modern UI components for Ruby on Rails, powered by TailwindCSS and Stimulus

🆕 Brian Casel shared a preview of the Instrumental Editor:

🧰 Updates

🧰 J Ruby Dev Team announced a new version of JRuby:

🧰 Jorge Manrubia announced a new version of Release v0.1.13 · hotwired/spark

🧰 Vladimir Dementyev announced a new version of Ruby Next

🧰 Stan Lo announced a new version of irb

🧰James announced a new update for mocha:

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Adam Wathan shared Tailwind CSS v4.0 release

🤝 Jason Swett shared about how to value a developer:

🤝 Prem Sichanugrist shared about using Passkey:

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🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Ruby Europe published the first edition Ruby Europe - News - The very first Ruby Europe newsletter - European Ruby and Ruby on Rails community.

🗞 Ruby On Rails published a new edition Ruby on Rails: Devcontainers without VSCode, a deprecation and more!

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition about Jean's epic journey to optimize Ruby's JSON parsing

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 04 - Hotwire Native Environment Switching, Stimulus Autocomplete, and more! • Buttondown

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new article about 💎 Issue 453 - Adding button loader to Turbo-powered forms

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Indie Rails published a new podcast about IndieRails | New Year Sentiment

🎧 Emmanuel Hayford published a new podcast about The Rails Changelog | 029: Tuning Ruby on Rails App Performance with Jean Boussier

🎧 Chris Oliver published a new podcast about Sin City Ruby & Testing with Jason Swett

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

🎧 The Ruby On Rails Podcast released new podcast Episode 531: Taking Over Fireside with John Nunemaker & Garrett Dimon

🎧 David Hill published a new episode about Aaron Patterson - Ode to RailsConf

📽️ 🎥 Videos

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov shared Typesense search with Ruby on Rails #225

🎥 Drifting Ruby published a new video about Refreshing Turbo Frames | Drifting Ruby

🎥 Ruby Türkiye published a new video about The present and future of SQLite on Rails - Stephen Margheim 

🎥 Ken Greeff published a new video about Adding Full Text Search to Rails Directory - Part 10

🎥 Irina Nazarova published a new video about SF Ruby Meetup ‪@productboardinc‬, January 2025

🎥 Rails Quest by Kaleb Lape published a new video about Rails 8 Local Development Like a Pro: Custom Domains & SSL Setup Guide

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Ruby Gems published a new article about December 2024 RubyGems Updates

🆕 Harrison Broadbent published an article about Stealthly Browsing and Scraping with Ferrum

🆕 Affimon published an article about Our Production Ruby on Rails stack

🆕 Avo published a new article about Component variants in Rails with the class_variants gem

🆕 David Montesdeoca published an article about The one about learning Ruby

🆕 Davide Santangelo published an article about Prime Number Generation Algorithm in Ruby

🆕 Burdette Lamar published an article Nokogiri Cookbook

🆕 Rails Designer published an article about 6 Free Icon Libraries for Rails Apps and about Gems I use for Rails SaaS apps

🆕 Fritz Meissner published a new article about What happens when we misuse refactoring in conversation?

🆕 Jeremy Smith published an article about Stimulus Autocomplete with Combobox Navigation

🆕 David Morales published an article about Install Ruby: A Step-By-Step Guide | DevelClan

🆕 Blazej published a new article How The Odin Project Changed the Way I Learn Code

🆕 Maciek Korsan published a new article about Turbo Frames and the Extra DOM Node – How to Handle It?

How-TOs 📝

📝 Anthony Drake published a new article about Migrating Away from Devise Part 6: Trackable Module and Tests

📝 Paweł Dąbrowski published an article about Deploying Rails on Docker: Kamal alternative - Dokku

📝 Benito Serna published a new article about Fixing a bug in my lateral joins queries with rails

📝 Victor Cobos published a new article about From Sticky to Pinned: A Stimulus Controller Approach

📝 Rob Race published a new article about How to Build a Twitter Clone with Rails 8 Inertia and React

📝 Sulman Baig published an article about Rails 8 CI/CD: GitHub Actions & Kamal

Related

Marco Roth published a new article about 2024 Year-in-Review

Joshua Wood published a new article about LLMs and Debugging

Daniel Doubrovkine published a new article about Should You Work on Weekends?

Jamie Lawrence published a new article about I disagree

Dave Thomas published an article about AI Coding Is Based on a Faulty Premise