Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 156

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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

🚀 Russ Olsen announced the launch of Eloquent Ruby, 2nd edition.

🚀 Kirill Shevchenko shared his new project he is working on → PostnHost

📅 Events

📆 Irina Nazarova reminded us that SFRuby is happening next week and shared from higlights from the conference:

📅 Vienna.Rb has shared their new event that will take place on December 3rd. Secure your spot right here → Ruby Christmas Edition

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉️ Yukihiro Matsumoto announced that the next version of Ruby is Ruby 4.0.0

Noel Rappin shared that they are starting working on a beta edition of Programming Ruby 4.0

👉️ Ruby’s Rename Namespace to Ruby::Box PR, was merged to master

This was started by a feature request made by Xavier Noria who made very good arguments for renaming namespace to something else:

The proposal that was finally accepted by Matz was suggested by Satoshi Tagomori:

What could be interesting to keep in mind from that conversation is that Matz noted:

👉️ Carmine Paolino announced a new version of RubyLLm

💻 Code Samples

️💻 Hans Schnedlitz shared that StimulusJS supports keyboard event filters out of the box

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💻 Brad Gessler shared how to define a page model collection in Sitepress easier

️💻 Avi Flombaum shared how you can save time in test fixtures

️Brad Gessler replied with:

💻 Zil N shared how to use the tap method

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

💡 Josef Strzibny shared about the new release of Kamal Handbook 2.1

💡 Irina Nazarova shared exciting news about CactusAI

💡Okura Masafumi shared that Stan Lo won the Ruby Prize 2025:

💡 Charles Nutter re-submitted with more arguments a proposal for Feature #21665 (Open): Revisit Object#deep_freeze to support non-Ractor use cases

💡 Brandon Weaver submitted a couple of proposals to add pattern matching capabilities to some core classes Feature #21675 (Open): Advent of Pattern Matching

❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails

❤️ Jorge Alvarez shared about using Rub to get an unfair advantage for entrepreneurs:

❤️ bjclark shared about Ruby performance:

❤️ skrebbel shared about how elegant Ruby is:

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🧰 Updates

🧰 Brad Gessler announced a new release of markdown-rails - “Markdown as a static templating language for Rails views and partials“

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🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Jen Simmons shared that Safari 26.1 has arrived.

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 This Week in Rails published a new edition → Keep your passwords secure, one way or the other

🗞 Andrey Eremin published a new edition → Static Ruby Monthly | Issue 10, October 2025

🗞 Matt Solt published a new edition → Ruby AI News - November 4th, 2025

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition → Another epic bug hunt

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new article about Week 45 - Debugging Hotwire Native, CSS Highlights API, and more!

🗞 Women On Rails Newsletter - International Version published a new article about 🎊 Newsletter WoR #67: Celebrating 5 years!

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Ruby On Rails published a new podcast episode → Miguel Conde & Peter Compernolle: Inside Gusto’s Rails Biolith

🎧 The Bike Shed published a new podcast episode → The Bike Shed: 481: Dev Horror Stories

🎧 The Ruby AI Podcast published a new episode → Building Futures: AI, Careers & the Rails Ahead with Avi Flombaum

🎧 Jared Normal published a new episode → Brut-al Death (with David Bryant Copeland)

🎧 Rails Business published a new episode → Stephen Anderson

🎥 Videos

🎥 Anton Tkachov published a new video → "Perfect is too Expensive"-Peter | "Schemas to UUID rows"-Prarthana | @ Prism Spaces | October 2025

🎥 Dave Kimura published a new video → Failover Requests

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Julian Rubisch published a new article about An Introduction to Game Development with DragonRuby

🆕 Noel Rappin published a new article about Ruby And Its Neighbors: Smalltalk

🆕 Vinay Keerthi published an article about A Soiree into Symbols in Ruby | Stonecharioteer on Tech

🆕 Sam Ruby published a new article about TurboCable - Real-Time Rails Without External Dependencies

🆕 Avo published a new article about Deterministic Mesh Gradient Avatars in Rails

🆕 Maciej Mensfeld published a new article about When Your Hash Becomes a String: Hunting Ruby’s Million-to-One Memory Bug

🆕 Pat Shaughnessy published a new article about Compiling a Call to a Block

🆕 Devel Morales published a new article about The N+1 Query Problem in Active Record

🆕 Bruno Sutic published a new article about Friendly Attributes Pattern

🆕 Joel Drapper published a new article about Better DOM Morphing with Morphlex

🆕 Joe Masilotti published a new article about Ruby already solved my problem

🆕 Jason Swett published an article about RSpec shared examples unmasked

🆕 Shivam Chahar published a new article about Rails 8.1: Resilient Jobs, Better Logs, and Local CI

🆕 Richard Schneeman published a new article about Upgrade to Puma 7 and Unlock the Power of Fair Scheduled Keep-alive

🆕 Stuart published a new article about "Load More" with Pagy and Turbo

🆕 Paweł Świątkowski published a new article about Eglot, Ruby LSP and StandardRB

🆕 Javier Cervantes published a new article about Compelling reasons to learn Ruby today

🆕 William Kennedy published a new article about Debugging Hotwire Native - Native Logging

🆕 Rails Designer published a new article about Two products, one Rails codebase

🆕 Ruby Central published a new article about Ruby Central Update Friday 11/7/25

🆕 Filipa Mendonça-Vieira published an article about In Praise of dhh

🆕 Lucian Ghinda published a new article about RSpec and let!: Understanding the Potential Pitfalls

🆕 Joey Wang published a new article about Improving Performance with load_async in Rails 8: A Deep Dive into Asynchronous Record Loading

How-TOs 📝

📝 Steve Polito published a new article about How to design a join code system

📝 Rails Designer published a new article about Update page title counter with custom turbo streams in Rails

📝 Paweł Świątkowski published a new article about Integrating Pagy with Hanami (2025 edition)

📝 Moncef Belyamani published a new article about How to fix the new error "certificate verify failed (unable to get certificate CRL)"

📝 Richard Schneeman published a new article about Learn How to Lower Heroku Dyno Latency through Persistent Connections (Keep-alive)

📝 Josef Strzibny published a new article about How to use local Docker registry in Kamal

Related ✍️

Everyday Rails published a new article about My go-to prompt for legacy code exploration