Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 124

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 On Rails announced a giveaway with tickets to Tropical on Rails 🏝️

🚀 Stephen Margheim launched a new course High Leverage Rails

🚀 Dave Kimura launched a fantastic product Choose Your Own Path

🚀 Stanislav Katkov published his new project DevTUI

🚀 Sam Ruby announced a fresh version of Agile Web Development with Rails 8

🚀 Daniel Hoelzgen released a handy utility MCP Server - For AI Tools

🚀 Justin Bowen released an awesome project: activeagent

📅 Events

📅 Irina Nazarova announced interview opportunities for recent Ruby on Rails startups

📅 Jason Swett announced a new edition of Sin City Ruby

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📅 Visuality announced the workshop registrations for Ruby Community Conference

📅 Brighton Ruby opened lightning talk submissions for its 2025 conference

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Pat Shaughnessy published a new article about Write Barriers

👉 Brad Gessler shared an article about Ruby Binary Distribution

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💻 Code Samples

️💻 Leon Vogt shared a handy Kamal tip from Rails World for zero-downtime maintenance 🧑‍🔧

️💻 Nick Schwaderer shared a configuration for indexing Turbo-Rails docs into Cursor

️💻 William Kennedy demonstrated haptic feedback integration with Hotwire Native

and also provided an example with the usage ⚙️:

️💻 Ruby Cademy highlighted Rails 8’s new params#expect: a stronger way to handle parameters 🤩

️💻 Igor Alexandrov shared a useful tip about avoiding anonymous inheritance

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared an important usage of Object#with

💻 Prem Sichanugrist posted about the flexibility of Ruby when you want to write code even simpler

💻 Robert shared a handy String extension for right-sided splitting in Ruby

💻 Radan shared his amazement for Ruby with a code sample that finds upcoming Monday-starting months

And Victor Shepelev brought an even simplified version for that code sample 💡

💻 John Nunemaker shared his journey debugging a tricky Flipper issue

You can go and check the full PR: Fix all the warnings and turn them on for CI #912

💻 Gregory Brown shared an interesting Ruby hack for testing stderr output

💻 Lucian Ghinda shared about monkey patching in Rails 🙉 You can read the full article online here or read the entire thread on Bluesky:

💻 Matheus Richard showcased the elegance of endless method definitions in Ruby

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐 Pascal Laliberté shared smart patterns for building Hotwire components without sacrificing native functionality

📐 Jeremy Smith shared his encounter with a tricky Stimulus.js issue

and Julik Tarkhanov jumped in with clarifying insights

and he ended with:

️📐 David Heinemeier Hansson shared his realisation about system tests

️📐 Alex Yarotsky curated an essential list of gems to boost ActiveRecord

Here is the list of gems recommended:

• active_record_doctor - "Identify database issues before they hit production."

• counter_culture - "counter_culture provides turbo-charged counter caches that are kept up-to-date not just on create and destroy, that support multiple levels of indirection through relationships, allow dynamic column names and that avoid deadlocks by updating in the after_commit callback."

• database_consistency - "Provide an easy way to check the consistency of the database constraints with the application validations."

• fast_count - "Quickly get a count estimation for large tables."

• groupdate - "The simplest way to group temporal data"

• hightop - "A nice shortcut for group count queries"

• identity_cache - "Opt-in read through Active Record caching."

• rails-pg-extras - " Rails port of Heroku PG Extras. The goal of this project is to provide a powerful insights into PostgreSQL database for Ruby on Rails apps that are not using the default Heroku PostgreSQL plugin. "

• scenic - " Adds methods to ActiveRecord::Migration to create and manage database views in Rails "

• strong_migrations - "Catch unsafe migrations in development"

️📐 Charles Oliver Nutter shared exciting performance improvements in JRuby 10

️📐 Marco Roth asked developers to share their most questionable ERB code

For this question, Jeremy Smith joined by sharing his example

Marco, surprised, followed up with a question to Jeremy

and Jeremy replied:

️📐 Alex Yarotsky shared valuable PostgreSQL indexing strategies for Rails apps

Dive into his thread for detailed tips 💡

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

💡 Hanami shared an invitation to their Discord Server 

💡 Joël Quenneville asked the community to recall Ruby on Rails’s most impactful blogs

He got some responses.

• Server-generated JavaScript Responses

• Rails has two default stacks

• Provide sharp knives

• 7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models

• HN Discussion about Rails - The Missing Parts 

Here is a list of other responses from his community:

• Vanilla Rails is plenty

• Code I like

• Crazy, Heretical, and Awesome: The Way I Write Rails Apps

• Sandi Metz’ Rules for Developers

• Gurzu: Ruby Blogs

• Ruby on Whales: Dockering Ruby and Rails development

• It’s About Time (Zones)

💡 Ruby On Rails announced Higher Pixels’ joining as a contributing member of the Rails Foundation

💡 Irina Nazarova celebrated Tines’ journey from Rails startup to unicorn status 🦄

💡 Nick Schwaderer reflected on the distinct eras in Ruby’s history

and Nate Berkopec replied

💡 Gustavo asked the community whether Ruby is a good entry point for a junior

And the Ruby community warmly responded 🥰

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Axel Kee shared how Ruby brought both joy and success

❤️ Donn Felker highlighted the power of Rails 8 in building apps efficiently with minimal resources

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Jono Yeong created a new gem: bsky-parser

🆕 Javi Ramirez published his new gem: telegrama 💬

🆕 Andrew Culver announced the release of a new gem: Honyaku

🆕 Matheus Richard created a new gem: rails-diff: Compare Rails-generated files with the ones in your repository

🆕 Rails Designer published a new gem about Introducing Rails Vault: simple to add settings to any ActiveRecord model

🧰 Updates

🧰 Xavier Noria announced an update for Zeitwerk

🧰 Ruby Gems published a new release 3.6.4 Released and 3.6.5 Released

🧰 えむ。announced a new version for httpclient

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Brandon Weaver shared insightful thoughts about engineering career growth

Check out his full thread for valuable perspective 🕵🏼‍♂️

🤝 Ryan Bates shared a pragmatic tip about method refactoring

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Ruby Central shared new edition of Ruby Central’s OSS Changelog

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new article about Notebook-style Ruby coding with Jupyter Notebooks

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new article about Week 08 - Hotwire Spark for Laravel, Rails in the browser, and more!

🗞 Sajjad Umar published a new edition about Ruby on Rails - Feb 2025

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new article about 💎 Issue 457 - Surely you must be joking, Jupyter notebooks with Ruby [video]

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 David Hill shared a podcast about RubyConf’s Scholar Program: Ode to RailsConf

🎧 Thoughtbot shared a new podcast: The Bike Shed: 455: Noisy Animals Kata with Fritz Meissner

🎧 IndieRails shared IndieRails | Joe Masilotti - Return of the Hotwire Native Guy

🎧 Rubyland shared a new podcast about Essential Tools, Updates, and Strategies in Rails Eight with Greg Molnar

🎥 Videos

🎥 Thoughtbot published a new video: Alternative editors and AI tools for developers

🎥 Brad Gessler shared a video version of an article: Ruby binary distributions

🎥 Landon Gray published a new article about Surely you must be joking, Jupyter notebooks with Ruby! by Landon Gray

🎥 John Nunemaker shared a new video: Automate Your Workflow on Mac: Run Commands Instantly When Files Change with entr 🚀

🎥 Andymaleh.bsky.social shared a video about Responsibility Driven Design in Ruby

🎥 Zhephyn published a new video from Ruby Book Club: Eloquent Ruby Chapter 9

🎥 Jason Swett published a new video about Adding Infinite Scroll - Live Coding on SaturnCI

🎥 Rails Quest by Kaleb Lape published a new video about Rails 8 Production SQLite: Automatic Cloud Backups with Litestream

🎥 Montreal.rb published a new video about Responsibility Driven Design in Ruby by Andy Maleh (Montreal.rb Ruby Talk 2025/01)

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Vladimir Dementyev published a new article about Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly: a guide to full-stack in‑browser action

🆕 Ruby Central published a new article about Company Spotlight: How Ruby Shaped DNSimple’s Growth

🆕 Andrei Maxim published a new article: Should Humans Facilitate AI?

🆕 Pat Shaughnessy published a new article about Write Barriers

🆕 Paweł Pokrywka published an article about Debugging mutable subresources: a detective story

🆕 Ruby Central published a new article about Ruby Central's OSS Changelog: February 2025

🆕 Davide Santangelo published an article about A Comprehensive Analysis of Data Structures in Ruby: Implementations, Complexities, and Performance Benchmarks

🆕 Prasanth Chaduvula published a new article about Deep Dive Into Rails ActionController Strong Parameters

🆕 Brad Gessler shared an article about Ruby Binary Distribution

🆕 gerry leo nugroho published a new article about Mastering Ruby Methods: 16 Practical Examples for Beginners

🆕 Davide Santangelo published an article about Mastering IP Addresses in Ruby with the IPAddress Gem - DEV Community

🆕 Julik Tarkhanov published an article about Musings on Module Registration (And Why It Could Be Better in Rails)

🆕 Kevin Luo published an article about Some tips for making a ruby gem

🆕 Test Double Blog published a new article about Why Rails upgrades are harder than you think

How-TOs 📝

📝 Avo posted an article on how to build authentication in Rails

📝 Adam Tomeček published an article about Simple e-mail service with Rails - Part 1: Setup

📝 Donn Felker published a new article about Migrating from Sidekiq to Solid Queue

📝 Deepak Mahakale published an article about How to rollback a deployment with Kamal?

📝 Akshay Khot published a new article about Backup SQLite from a Containerized Rails App Deployed with Kamal and about about Restrict Destroying Dependent Rails Associations with Error

📝 Jon Sully published a new article about ["Quick Tip: Fix ActiveRecord", "Connection Pool Errors For Good"]

Related ✍️

✍️ Dave Thomas published a new article about writing a functional specification