Short Ruby News - Edition #32

Briefly about everything happening in Ruby world - week 9 of 2023 (web version)

Lucian Ghinda

Mar 6

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👐 Aurelie Verrot shared a piece from Hired report

Here are two more quotes from the report:

Source: page 6 of Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers

Source: page 32 of Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers

And maybe graph showing the hottest IC skills vs average:

Source: page 39 from Hired’s 2023 State of Software Engineers

👐Ruby Central announced that they support Mastodon Development:

👐 Andy Croll shared that FirstRubyFriend is looking for Portuguese speaking mentors and people from Asian and African countries.

👐 Tom De Bruijn announced they updated the Rails Girls Guides:

If you know someone interested to learn Ruby, you can recommend them the Introduction to Ruby section from RailsGirls that was recently added.

👐 Brad Gessler shared a thread about how they think Rails is losing juniors:

I will not try to summarize the thread here as I think it is good to read it as it was shared because it includes explanations for each point. If you are not on Twitter you can read the thread via nitter here or via threadreaderapp here

Here are some replies to that thread trying to look at various causes than the technology:

There are many great replies there ,so you should read the entire discussion.

It is also worth mentioning two resources shared in that thread:

It is also worth reading the thread shared by Devanil Junior:

👐 Chris Oliver announced BeginnerBounties - a place where people can post bounties about programming tasks for juniors:

👐 R Spec Bdd For Ruby announced that RelishApp is down and invited us to read the article published by Matt Wynne about Relish:

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👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉Nate Berkopec shared performance advice saying that upgrading Ruby usually pays off:

👉Noel Rappin shared an update about Programming Ruby 3.2 book:

He also added:

👉Cédric Delalande shared how to a documentation showing that using blocks for log messages allows running interpolation only when the log level is matched:

Adam shared another nice trick:

👉Joel Drapper shared a performant result of a Ruby web stack he is using:

👉Mika Henriksson shared a performance improvement from running Ruby via jemalloc:

👉Rishi Pithadiya shared a code sample showing ActiveSupport inflectors:

👉Nate Berkopec shared an advice about performance between select and pluck:

👉Sam Saffron replied with a PR from discourse showing discourse fast_pluck.rb patch:

Source: https://github.com/discourse/discourse

👉Mika Henriksson shared a TIL about Active Record pick:

👉Kirill Shevchenko shared a code sample showing Composite pattern in Ruby:

👉Kow shared a series of code samples exploring various ways to define routes in Camper:

👉Greg Molnar shared how to use each_with_index to start counting from 1:

👉Marc Köhlbrugge shared a thread with resources (videos) about Ruby:

Here are the channels shared in that thread:

👉Mario Schüttel shared a code sample showing how min and max behave on negative ranges:

Benoit Daloze replied explaining why this happens:

👉 Andrea Rocca continues the series about Hotwire. Here a screenshot from only one of the many tips shared this week:

He shared about:

Hotwire tip 8/30 Ridiculously simple real-time chat (source code)
Hotwire tip 9/30 How about some tic tac toe? (source code)
Hotwire tip 10/30 Multi-step forms (source code)
Hotwire tip 11/30 Flash messages w/o page reload (source code)
Hotwire tip 12/30 Command palette with keyboard shortcut (source code)
Hotwire tip 13/30 Quick and easy reactive maps (source code)
Hotwire tip 14/30 Hotwire with ViewComponents (source code)
Hotwire tip 15/30 ChatGPT 🤝 Hotwire (source code)

Read all the threads shared so far from this mega-thread

👉Rishi Pithadiya shared another tip about using ActiveSupport::Inflector:

👉Kirill Shevchenko shared how to use RSpec output matcher:

👉Kevin Newton shared a code sample showing that in Ruby almost anything can go in a rescue clause:

👉Prabin Poudel shared a code sample about how to create a Rails generator:

👉Kevin Newton shared an interesting behavior of Ruby:

👉Moses Gathuku shared a code sample showing two ways:

And the second way to achieve that is:

👉Joel Moss shared a code sample showing how they use Phlex to render a form:

👉Shiva shared a thread with Rails console tips:

You should read the thread, there are examples about sandbox mode, showing annotations (FIXE/OPTIMIZE/TODO), showing versions info and Rails stats.

👉Brad Gessler shared two commands that can be used to precompile Ruby code (bootsnap precompile and assets::precompile)

👉Shiva shared a how to hide sensitive data from Rails logs:

👉Prabin Poudel shared a good reminder to start relying less on OpenStruct:

A couple of resources mentioned in the conversation:

Lucian Ghinda suggested to use Date.define when possible:

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🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🧰 DHH announced MRSK - check the Github repo and the website mrsk.dev:

🧰 Iainbeeston shared an update for Turbo frames: Read the PR: Don't break out of frames when frame missing #863

🧰Avo announced a new release. Check out the release notes:

🧰Adrian Marin shared that usage of Avo increased:

🧰Karol Bąk announced they released a new version of sidekiq-debouncer. The new version “allows to group and postpone the execution of similar jobs.”

🧰Ryan Davis announced the release of minitest v.5.18.0 which introduces assert-pattern: