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👋 Short Ruby News - Edition #26

Briefly about everything happening in Ruby world - week 3 of 2023

Lucian Ghinda

Jan 23, 2023

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👐 Our Community

👐 John Hawthorn announced the release of Rails 7.0.4.1, 6.1.7.1 and 6.0.6.1 to address security vulnerabilities:

👐 Zach Holman shared a slide from a pitch describing the value of Rails:

👐 Jeremy Smith announced he is organising a regional Ruby conference:

Visit blueridgeruby.com to find out more and if you have a proposal visit Call for Proposals. You can also follow @blueridgeruby@ruby.social to be up to date with the conference news.

👐 ConfFreaks released all the videos from RailsConf 2022 on their channel. Of course you could already watch them on Ruby Central channel: Rails Conf 2022

👐 Collin Donnell announced the first episode of a new Ruby podcast Rooftop Ruby

👐 Korny Sietsma asked where someone can refresh their Ruby on Rails skills in 2023:

Here are some suggested resources:

👐 Andrea Fomera shared that there are over 1500 people that signed up for Learn Hotwire by Building a Forum

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Joel Drapper shared a thread about how phlex-rails is patching form_with to work with Phlex and there is also a nice discussion about how to output raw HTML:

👉 Marco Roth shared an update of phlexing.fun announcing a series of improvements:

The source code is available at: marcoroth/phlexing

👉 Brandon Weaver shared a proposal he wrote in 2021 about pattern matching in Ruby:

Read the document here.

👉 Olle shared the Ruby Google Summer of Code Ideas List for projects in 2023:

👉 Brooke Kuhlmann shared an update for their Hanami demo application:

👉 Joel Drapper shared a thread about how to work with Basic Object in Ruby:

You should read the entire thread. I just want to underline the announcement Joel made in that thread:

👉 Nate Berkopec shared how they speed up Rails system tests at GustoHQ:

He describes the problem:

And then the solution:

👉 Joel Drapper shared a technique to configure something on the current class and its children:

🤝 Jamie McCarthy replied with a possible alternative:

👉Moses Gathuku shared a code sample showing how to set default value for attributes in Rails >= 6.1

👉 Steve Polito shared a code sample about the anything keyword in RSpec:

👉 Steve Polito shared a code sample showing how to use signed_id to confirm user emails in Rails:

You can explore the full example on this Github repository

👉 Greg Navis shared a thread with code samples showing transform_keys and transform_values in Ruby:

👉 Kevin Newton shared a code sample about how Ruby parsed identifiers:

👉 Greg Navis shared a code sample showing how compare_by_identity works for hashes in Ruby:

Read the thread as it has a lot of code samples showing why this happens and how it works.

You should also read this code sample from Josh Cheek reply along with the link to the Ruby docs:

👉Benjamín Silva H. shared a code sample showing a trick in Rails to initialize a new record:

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🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🧰 Avo published a new update for their content management system and admin for Rails: Read the changelog for v.2.24.0

🧰 Andrew Kane shared a code sample from their gem polars-ruby

🧰 Sam Ruby published a new gem called dockerfile-rails with the purpose to:

Provides Rails generators to produce Dockerfiles and related files. This is being proposed as the generator to be included in Rails 7.1, and a substantial number of pull requests along those lines have already been merged. This repository contains fixes and features beyond those pull requests.

🧰 Joel Drapper shared a PR for Phlex - Don't capture blocks when yielding showing a 4% performance improvement by not capturing the yiel block.

🧰 John Hawthorn shared a PR he submitted to Rack making it use Ruby 3.2 caching Regexp: Make RFC2183 work with Ruby 3.2's caching Regexp

🧰 Jim Gay published a new gem called polyfill-data that brings the new Ruby 3.2 Data class to earlier Rubies.

🧰 Andi published a new gem called file_exists that brings back the File.exists? and Dir.exists? that were removed in Ruby 3.2

🧰 Stanisław Pitucha published a new project that helps with finding the source of Ruby memory leaks: HeapLeak

🧰 Stanislav Katkov shared an update for pbbuilder gem where he added fragment caching.

🧰 Jean Boussier published gvltools 0.1.0 a set of GVL instrumentation tools

🧰 Mike Perham announced the release of Sidekiq Pro 7.0.6. Read the changelog

🧰 Julian Rubisch published a new gem julianrubisch/solder: Simplistic UI State Management for Rails Apps using Hotwire and Caching

Persist and restore ephemeral attributes of HTML elements using the Rails cache store and StimulusJS. In short, this plugin will persist UI state changes a user makes on a per-element basis.

🧰 Andrew Kane published a new gem Mapkick - Create beautiful JavaScript maps with one line of Ruby

🧰 Simon Chiu announced they updated their Rails template Code-With-Rails/rails-template, a Rails application template to set up Rails apps with Docker already set up.

🧰 Greg Navis published a new gem called transient_record:

transient-record is a gem to define temporary tables and Active Record models for testing purposes. It's a great tool for testing generic Active Record code and libraries.

🧰 Nate Hopkins shared a gem that helps identify a model by an URI: rails/globalid

🧰 Lázaro Nixon shared a PR for Active Record that will help with generating tokens: Add `ActiveRecord::Base::generates_token_for` by jonathanhefner

🧰 Andrew Kane announced the release of Chartkick 5: Create beautiful JavaScript charts with one line of Ruby with support for Chart.js 4

🧰 Dhairya Gabhawala shared a gist showing how to extend Trix editor functionality: Rails & Trix: Add Underline, Superscript, and Subscript