Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 125

Table of Contents

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  • Why Pagecord?

  • 🚀 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

🚀 Andy Croll launched a Ruby-themed merch store

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📅 Events

📅 Balkan Ruby announced their complete lineup for the upcoming event 🤩

📅 Rails Conf announced the availability of Supporter Tickets for Rails Conf 2025

🎟️ Here you can find the tickets: RailsConf 2025 Tickets

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Max Bernstein, Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert published an article about Interprocedural Sparse Conditional Type Propagation (check also the Github repo that shows a tool they built for this article):

👉 Henry Maddocks published a new article about Beginners Guide to Ruby on Rails Performance: Part 1 (you can also read part 2 here)

👉 Jean Boussier published a new article about What’s The Deal With Ractors?

💻 Code Samples

💻 Matt Swanson shared a Hotwire pattern using components and turbo_stream for better updates, instead of partials

He continued with more code samples demonstrating its usage;

Check them the entire thread on Threadreader app

💻 David Heinemeier Hansson suggested simple local CI can be sufficient, citing HEY’s recent setup

And he also posted some stats based on the setup ⏳

Mark Hesketh shared a similar script in response to DHH’s post

💻Cédric Delalande shared how Ruby’s standard library can replace Dry::Struct

And Brandon Weaver added about the benefits of using Dry::Struct:

💻 Peter Bhat Harkins shared a handy Ruby irb snipped for identity/copy debugging

💻 Alex Yarotsky shared a PostgreSQL trick for faster Rails JSON serialization 🔧

️💻 Kevin Luo shared a code sample about Ruby’s built-in method for binary search operations

👀 For more details, go and check out the full article version: Ruby Binary Search

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared an example of Static Model in Rails for configuration management 💡

💻 Lucian Ghinda posted a thread about the evolution of writing Ruby code (the code has a typo as it should be url: String => url)

📲 You can read the entire thread on Bluesky for more details or on the blog

💻 Ismael Celis showcased a two-step workflow pattern using commands, events and reactions in Ruby

️💻 Ngan Pham shared how Gusto runs Brakeman without including it in the Gemfile 🔧

️💻 Deepak Mahakale shared a tip for setting up basic authentication in Rails

️💻 Ruby Cademy shared a tip on creating reusable form components

️💻Ismael Celis wrote a thread about mutable vs immutable data in the context of effective event handling

Check the entire thread for more explanations on Bluesky

📐 Thinking about Code Design

️📐 Nithin Bekal shared that Sorbet added support for experimental RBS comments

⛓️ You can read all the details here: rbs-support

📐 Ryan Bates reflected on preferring stateless class methods over traditional OOP

and Jorge encouraged him to expand on his perspective in the near future ✨

️📐 Chris Oliver asked the community about the hardest aspects of Hotwire

Here are some of the replies 📞 (go and read the replies on Bluesky or on Twitter)

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

💡 Nauman Tariq asked his network about their preferred charting libraries

Here are some community choices:

• Rails Charts - Rails Charts using eCharts from Apache

• Chart.js - Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting library for the web

• Apache ECharts - An Open Source JavaScript Visualization Library

• Chartkick - Create beautiful JavaScript charts with one line of Ruby

• Highcharts - Simply Visualize

• Google Charts

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Mikel Lindsaar shared his appreciation for his dedicated team

❤️ Djah shared his joy of rediscovering Ruby after spending time in JavaScript development

❤️ Avi Flombaum emphasized Ruby’s continued relevance despite the dominance of other languages

and Michael Chaney agreed Ruby’s community is a major strength 💪

❤️ Joe Masilotti expressed his love for Hotwire, highlighting the efficiency and simplicity of Ruby on Rails

Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Andrea Fomera created a new gem: solid_cache_dashboard

🆕 Henrik Hauge Bjørnskov created a new gem for Cloudflare Turnstile integration with Rails: turnstiled

🆕Todd Kummer to share his new creation: Filterameter: Simplify and Speed Up Development of Rails Controllers

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

🆕 Jonathan Rochkind published a new gem called bot_challenge_page - Show a bot challenge interstitial for Rails, usually using Cloudflare Turnstile

🆕 Dominik Matoulek published a new gem called takagi - a Sinatra-like CoAP framework for IoT and microservices in Ruby.

🧰 Updates

🧰 John Nunemaker announced a new version of Flipper 1.3.3

🧰 Joel Moss announced an update for delivered: Simple runtime type checking for Ruby method signatures

🧰 Bozhidar Batsov (a.k.a. Bug) announced a new release of RuboCop 1.73

🧰 Justin Bowen announced an update for Active Agent

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Jorge Manrubia shared an insight about software development

🤝 Jason Swett posted his thougs the side effects of “tidy“ code

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Andrey Eremin published a new edition about Static Ruby Monthly | Edition 2, February 2025

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new article about A fresh way to package Ruby apps as binaries

🗞This Week In Rails published a new article about Ignoring indexes in MySQL has never been so easy…

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new article about Week 09 - Picture in Picture Videos, Hotwire Native Deep-links, and more!

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new article about 💎 Issue 458 - Why Ruby on Rails still matters

🗞 Ruby Central published a new article about The Ruby Central README: February 2025 Newsletter

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Jason Swett shared a new podcast: The Code with Jason Podcast 250

🎧 Brendan Buckingham and Ryan Frischt published a new podcast: Navigating the Freelance and Product Development Landscape with Jason Swett

🎧 Joël Quenneville published a new episode of The Bikeshed: 456: Typescript with Jimmy Thigpen

🎧 Remote Ruby published two new episodes Annotating Models to Esbuild Challenges and Cyberpunk, Vite and Ruby Releases

🎥 Videos

🎥 Cameron Dutro posted a new video with his development experience: Neato Demo

🎥 Ken Greeff published a new video about Setting up custom domain for Fly.io and about Rails 8 + Zero Config Monitoring | Production Ready in Minutes

🎥 Jason Swett published a new video about Scrutinizing the Visual Design - Live Coding on SaturnCI and about Diagnosing a Performance Problem - Live Coding on SaturnCI

🎥 Andy Maleh published a new article about Montreal.rb February 2025 Design Patterns in Ruby

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Avo published a new article about Building an InertiaJS app with Rails

🆕 Rails Designer published a new article about Create a Animated Counter in Stimulus

🆕 Bill Tihen published a new article about Rails: Table Filtering & Sorting

🆕 Jean Boussier published a new article about There Isn’t Much Point to HTTP/2 Past The Load Balancer and about What’s The Deal With Ractors?

🆕  Max Bernstein, Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert published a new article about Interprocedural Sparse Conditional Type Propagation

🆕 Mateus Pereira published a new article about A Tale of 3 Aliases

🆕 Henry Maddocks published a new article about Beginners Guide to Ruby on Rails Performance: Part 2 and about Beginners Guide to Ruby on Rails Performance: Part 1

🆕 Rails Designer published a new article about Alternative to Ruby's Monkey Patching

🆕 Olly Headey shared an article about Migrating the Pagecord Rails app from AWS to Hetzner

🆕 Chandra Shettigar published a new article about Building Real-time Apps with Rails 8, Hotwire & ActionCable in Production

🆕 Daniel Lempesis published a new article about Advanced Queries in ActiveRecord

🆕 Harsh patel shared a new article about Essential Security Best Practices for Ruby on Rails

🆕 Andrey Novikov shared his slides about Generating OpenAPI schema from serializers throughout the Rails stack

🆕 Alexey shared a new article about Building a Multi-Connection Redis Server with Ruby

🆕 Dennis Paagman published an article about Deep link into apps with Hotwire Native and universal links (iOS)

🆕 Brad Gessler published a new article: Compile Ruby apps with Tebako

🆕 Mika Henriksson published a new article: Customizing Trix Editor with DaisyUI

🆕 Daniel Schoppmann published a new article about Use Rails I18n for more than translations

🆕 Camillo Visini published an article about Phlex for Rails Emails: Action Mailer without ERB

How-TOs 📝

📝 Sami Birnbaum and Valeria Graffeo published a new article about about Zero-downtime with Rails credentials part III

📝 Dennis Paagman published a new article about Deep link into apps with Hotwire Native and universal links (iOS)

📝 Anusree Anilkumar shared a new article about Jekyll Github Pages Website - DEV Community

📝 Davide Santangelo shared a tutorial about Building a simple URL Shortener with Rails 8: A Step-by-Step Guide

📝 Jon Sullivan published a new article about Using Typora as a custom Buttondown front-end

📝 Barry Hess published a new article about Fixing Broken Action Text Images in Atom Feeds

Related ✍️

✍️ Bozhidar Batsov shared a new article: Automate the Creation of GitHub Releases

✍️ Test Double Blog published a new article about Want top talent and diversity? RTO mandates aren't the answer