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Short Ruby News - Edition #34

Short Ruby News - Edition #34

Briefly about everything happening in Ruby world - week 11 of 2023

March 20, 2023

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👐 Adrian Marin shared their gratitude for the work Xavier Noria is doing in the community:

Adrian also shared a link to a discussion where Xavier explained in depth how autoreload works in Ruby on Rails and how Zeitwerk comes into play: [Question] Are classes in nested directories not auto-reloaded with `push_dir`?

👐 Pragmatic Programmers asked what the biggest advantages of using Rails today are:

Here are two of the answers:

🤝Robby Russell invited us to be greateful and endorse our colleagues:

🤝 Blue Ridge Ruby shared their final agenda for June 2023 in Asheville, NC

🤝 Emmanuel Hayford announced a new podcast called The Rails Changelog

🤝 Nate Berkopec asked how we can make the Ruby on Rails API docs more SEO friendly:

👐 DHH shared they started a discord for MRSK Discord - A New Way to Chat with Friends & Communities

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👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉Benoit shared an image showing a performance made using Perfetto UI

👉 Joel Drapper shared a code sample showing how to stream a view in phlex-rails:

He also added a code sample about an async API request:

👉 Tim Riley announced a new ERB engine that will be used in Hanami 2 view layer (check the PR here):

👉Esparta shared a code showing how to use coerce (see class Integer#coerce):

👉 Josef Strzibny shared a thread about gems:

Here is the list of the gems:

There are a couple of replies to the last tweet that contains more gem recommendations.

👉Steve Polito shared a sample code showing how to click on links inside emails when doing integration tests in Rails:

👉Adrien Poly asked if in Rails 7, there is still a need to use database_cleaner gem:

The general response is no.

👉Rishi Pithadiya shared an explanation about two configuration options for Rails:

👉 Stanislav (Stas) Katkov asked what tricks people use to reduce memory consumption in Ruby:

👉 Scott Watermasysk shared a code sample showing Quick Ruby implementation of https://www.npmjs.com/package/clsx

👉Maxime Chevalier shared a performance comparison between latest CRuby with the interpreter only vs CRuby with YJIT enabled:

👉Omkar Joshi reminded us about link_to_if in Rails:

Talking about conditionally rendering things there exists:

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

Here is the full list of all threads Andrea shared this week:

Hotwire tip 24/30 Gmail-style bulk select (source)
Hotwire tip 25/30 Reddit-like lazy loaded nested comments (source)
Howire tip 26/30 Fancy scroll animations with Stimulus (source)
Hotwire tip 27/30 Full Calendar with stimulus target callbacks (source)
Hotwire tip 28/30 Custom turbo destroy dialogs (source)

👉Ryan Bates asked how do we handle pagination in automated tests:

Here are some of the answers:

👉Brad Gessler shared a code sample about:

👉Simon Chiu shared a tip for debugging Turbo Streams:

👉Chris Oliver shared a code sample showing a Hotwire tip about using Element.scrollIntoView() - Web APIs | MDN

👉Prabin Poudel shared a code sample showing how to use thor to write an overcommit config file:

👉Andrew Culver shared a small snipped that uses Ruby gsub to replace the content inside a file bullet_train/portable-string-replace

👉Jess Brown shared how they use table_print ruby gem:

👉Sam Saffron shared a code sample about using ChatGPT as a writing assistant

Here is a snippet from the GitHub gist:

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🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🧰 Ruby On Rails announced new versions to fix two vulnerabilities Rails 7.0.4.3 and 6.1.7.3 have been released!

You can read the discussions here:

🧰 Joel Drapper shared a PR for Phlex where they are showing how to implement Smart chunking:

🧰 The J Ruby Team shared they released a new version of PostgreSQL driver that passed 99.8% of AR tests:

🧰 Shibata Hiroshi shared a PR they merged where they combined the cops from Bundler and RubyGems. Merge rubocop configuration: 2nd PR. Check the commits - each one contains one cop

🧰 Jean Boussier shared a PR they are working on for Rails about PoC: Cache Extended Collection Proxies