Short Ruby News - Edition #35

Briefly about everything happening in Ruby world - week 12 of 2023

Update

The images are now clickable. I also wrote a longer post about an update I plan to do to the newsletter probably in April.

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👐 Our Community

Ruby 2.7 might be EOL at the end of March 2023:

Source: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/

👐 Postmodern shared a possible explanation about why it seems that few people are learning Ruby:

Source: @postmodern@ruby.social

👉Lucian Ghinda asked about the most significant advantage of using Rails today:

Source: @lucianghinda

Here are five of the answers, but I collected them all here:

Source: @onghu

Source: @wellingtonajo

Source: @jakeonrails

Source: @chalmagean

Source: @here_for_code

👐 Calvin Walzel announced that ruby-companies.org reached 20 companies:

Source: @calvin@ruby.social

👐 Andy Croll shared an open invitation to join as a mentor at firstrubyfriend.org

Source: @andycroll

👐 Jason Swett announced that Code with Jason Meetup will have from April some Europe-friendly time slots. Register here

Source: @JasonSwett

👐 Kevin Newton started a discussion about the sustainability of open-source projects:

Source: @kddnewton

👐 Joe Masilotti announced that RailsDevs Github Repo now has over 100 contributors:

Source: @joemasilotti

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👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉Will Cosgrove shared a code sample showing a helper for stimulus data attributes:

Source: @willcosgrove@ruby.social

👉Nate Berkopec shared a performance tip about the recommended number of threads with Puma on MRI:

Source: @nateberkopec@ruby.social

Volodymyr.Mykhailyk asked about the reason why this recommendation and Nate Matykiewicz explained

Source: @vmykhailyk and @NateMatykiewicz

👉Joel Drapper shared a piece of code showing how Phlex can asynchronously render content:

Source: @joeldrapper@ruby.social

👉Shiva shared a code sample showing how Policy Object Pattern can handle permissions, roles and policies:

Source: @_rshiva

👉David shared a code sample showing an active link helper:

Source: @dcyoung_dev (code source)

👉Matt Swanson shared a code sample about how to use ActiveSupport::MessageVerifier:

Source: @_swanson

👉Brad Gessler shared a code sample showing how to use Phlex inside a controller:

Source: @bradgessler

Brad also shared a code sample showing Phlex views with the same name as controller actions:

Source: @bradgessler

👉Josef Strzibny shared a tip about how to check generators from gems:

Source: @strzibnyj

👉Janko Marohnić shared a comparison between Sequel and ActiveRecord:

Source: @jankomarohnic

👉Rishi Pithadiya shared a short Rails tip that reduces database calls:

Source: @rishipi

👉 Shiva Kumar shared a thread about the Query Object Pattern:

Source: @_rshiva

👉Greg Navis shared a code sample showing how to implement final classes using in Ruby:

Source: @gregnavis

👉Eric Berry shared a command that helps showing the list of all gems in a Rails app:

Source: @coderberry

👉Greg Navis shared a code sample showing how to implement lazy accessors:

Source: @gregnavis

Source: @gregnavis

👉Kirill Shevchenko shared a thread about the State Pattern:

Source: @kirill_shevch

And you can see here the implementation of parent class:

Source: @kirill_shevch

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🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🧰 Schwad announced the scarpe-team/scarpe: Scarpe - shoes but running on webview:

This is what Shoes were:

Source: https://github.com/shoes/shoes-deprecated

And this is what Scarpe is:

Source: https://github.com/scarpe-team/scarpe

🧰 Kevin Newton announced that yarp: Yet Another Ruby Parser is 100% compliant on all test targets:

Source: @kddnewton

🧰 Petrik De Heus opened a PR to Include READMEs in main framework pages of the API documentation

🧰 Steve Polito announced they released a new gem called invisible_ink: Keep your private notes in plain sight

Source: @pragprog

🧰 Janko Marohnić shared a gem called tus-server - a Ruby server for the tus resumable upload protocol.

🧰 Vinicius Stock shared a new release v0.4.2 of ruby-lsp

Source: https://github.com/Shopify/ruby-lsp/releases/tag/v0.4.2

Vinicius also announced the release of v.0.2.2 of the VScode Ruby LSP extension. Read the release notes

Source: https://github.com/Shopify/vscode-ruby-lsp/releases/tag/v0.2.2

🧰 Avo announced an update to their roadmap for Avo 3 → Avo Admin for Rails

🧰 Greg Molnar shared a PR that Adds documentation for Arel::Nodes::Node

🧰 Dima Fatko announced a new PR about Performance and memory optimizations ruby/rexml:

Source: @fatkodima

🧰 Kevin Newton shared a PR about Implement `_dump` and `_load` on ActiveRecord::Base:

Source: @kddnewton

🧰 Jeremy Evans announced a new release v 2.29.0 of Rodauth 2.29.0 Released

Source: @jeremyevans0

🧰 Mike Coutermarsh created a new PR in Rails project about Fix Rails generated index name being too long (this might be part of Rails 7.1 - but is not yet merged)

🧰 Ben Pickles announced a new gem parklife and also published an article about Introducing Parklife

Source: https://github.com/benpickles/parklife

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🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Gabriel Arcangel Zayas shared a quote about legacy code

Source: @gazayas

🤝Samuel Motal shared how learning changes as we gain more knowledge:

Source: @SamuelMotal

🤝Tobias Petry.Sql shared a SQL sample showing how to Delete Duplicate Rows - Database Tip

Source: @tobias_petry

🤝Jason Swett shared tips about how to facilitate writing tests:

Source: @JasonSwett

🤝 Nate Berkopec shared a brute force-like way to make SQL performance improvements that he calls SQL Shotgun method:

Source: @nateberkopec

🤝Victoria Melnikova shared a thread about lessons learned while building communities:

Source: @vmelnikova_en

Here are some of the points shared, but you should read the thread as it has concrete examples:

• “Start building your community as early as possible, but ONLY when you're ready to show up consistently”

• “Empower your community by giving them a voice in decision-making”

• “Break down barriers to participation by recognizing and rewarding novice and experienced contributors alike”

• “Create incentives for engineers to stick around and encourage senior members to educate less experienced ones”

• “Toxic community cannot unlearn being toxic”

• “A good community leader is honest, transparent, communicates with integrity, and is a good diplomat”

• “Running a community is hard”

• “Learn to leverage your community for major releases”

• “Cultivate a welcoming community”

• “Software engineers are tough customers”

🤝 Robby Russell shared a thread with multiple articles about interns experiences:

Source: @robbyrussell

Here is the list of articles shared:

• Starting Over - A Career-Switcher’s Guide to Being an Intern

• Just the Beginning: How My Internship is Launching My New Tech Career

• Interning at Planet Argon: Expectations Vs. Reality

• Starting Over - A Career-Switcher’s Guide to Being an Intern

• Things I Learned as an Intern that I Did Not Learn in Code Bootcamp

• Now What? Thoughts from a Planet Argon Intern

• My Internship Experience: Learning Through Research and Reproducing Issues

• Rookie Mistakes (And What I Learned From Them)

• 5 Lessons I Learned from my Ruby on Rails Internship at Planet Argon

• From Student to Intern: My First Week at Planet Argon

• So...How Was Your First Week at Your Internship?

🤝Nate Berkopec shared a thread about reasons to work on performance on web applications:

Source: @nateberkopec

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Courses

👀 Graceful.Dev announced that their course Flawless Ruby is now free:

Source: @gracefuldev@ruby.social

👀 Aaron Francis announced their free course MySQL for Developers — PlanetScale

Source: @aarondfrancis

👀 Eric Berry shared their intention to create a course about RubyMine. If you are interested reply to Eric. I think this is indeed needed:

Source: @coderberry

👀 Avdi Grimm announced they are opening their Coaching & Counsel with Avdi

Source: @avdi

👀 Andrea Rocca announced a pre-order of their book about Learn Hotwire

Source: @ilrock__

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Greg Molnar announced a new edition of This Week in Rails written by Wojciech Wnętrzak → Composite primary keys improvements and more

🗞️ Ruby Weekly published a new edition: ChatGPT makes a contribution to Rails

🗞 Ruby Radar published a new edition Ruby Radar #95 - Scarpe Diem!

🗞️ Ruby LibHunt published a new edition of the Awesome Ruby Newsletter

Podcasts

🎧 Tightly Coupled Book Club published their intro episode S01 - 0.5 The Prequel

🎧Rooftop Ruby published a new episode about 5: Vanilla Never Tasted So Hot — Rooftop Ruby

🎧 Indie Rails published a new episode Getting Started As An Indie Rails Dev, Diversifying Income & Outsourcing

🎧 The Ruby On Rails Podcast published a new episode about Episode 462: Scarpe Diem: Seize the Shoes (Brittany + Nick)

🎧 Ruby For All published a new episode about Career and ADHD Management with Celso De Sá

Videos

Talks

📽️ Jason Swett published a new episode of Code With Jason Meetup about Code review (2023-03-23)

📽️Adrian Marin shared a video hosted by EvilMartians about Dev Propulsion Labs — Ep. 1 Building communities around dev tools products

📽️ Eric Berry shared a conference talk Roda: Simplicity, Reliability, Extensibility, Performance by Jeremy Evans (2022)

Screencasts

🎥 Justin Searls published a new video about Searls After Dark #5 - Tailwind on Rails

🎥 Drifting Ruby published two episodes:

• Episode 393 - Chart.js

• This Week in Rails - March 24th, 2023

🎥 Adrian Marin published a video showing how they Add Avo admin on RubyAndRails.info

🎥 Deanin published new videos:

• Drag and Drop Speedrun with Stimulus Components | Ruby on Rails 7

• Bing's ChatGPT with Ruby on Rails is Here!

🎥 Matt Swanson published a video talking about single file principle - Building a feature in one single file

🎥Yaroslav Shmarov published two new episodes:

• #120 Active Record Encryption usage and troubleshooting

• #119 Trello Clone. Advanced Drag and Drop Sortable Lists with Hotwire

Articles

What’s new

• Ben Sheldon published an article explaining How GoodJob's mountable Rails Engine delivers Javascript importmaps and frontend assets

• Rishi Pithadiya shared an article about Eight Graphs that Explain Software Engineering Salaries in 2023 → “The numbers from job search firms Dice and Hired have been released. These 2022 numbers have been eagerly anticipated, given the turmoil generated by a spate of tech layoffs in the latter part of the year, which Dice estimates at more than 140,000”

• Paweł Swiątkowski published a new article about Modeling business logic with ECS in Ruby → “This blog post explores the possibility of using Entity Component System architecture to model business logic in a “regular business application”

• Joshua published an article about Rails deployment pipeline with Planetscale & Heroku

• I asked last week a question about What is the best article what you ever read about Ruby? - if you still want to contribute please add it there in comments.

How-Tos

• Kevin Murphy published a new article in their series about Anyone can play guitar called Programming Guitar Greatness → “Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my favorite guitarists. Unfortunately, I can’t play anything like he can. To make up for it, let’s teach a computer to play guitar like him and see what we can learn.”

• Lucas Barret published a new article about Reversing DidYouMean Gem

• Any Cable published a new article showing AnyCable off Rails: connecting Twilio streams with Hanami

• Josef Strzibny published a new article about How to send emails in Rails with Postmark

• Paweł Dąbrowski published a new article How to not get into trouble with Active Record → “Improve the performance, produce fewer bugs, and make the code responsible for database communication readable and testable by selecting the right Active Record features for the given scenario”

• Harsh Patel published a new article about Basic Understanding of Webhooks with examples

• Steve Polito published an article showing How to encrypt files with Ruby and Active Support

• John Nunemaker published a new article about How to benchmark your ruby gem

• Aestimo Kirina published a new article on AppSignal’s blog about Authorization Gems in Ruby: Pundit and CanCanCan

• Phil Reynolds published a new article about Search and Select Multiple with Rails and Hotwire → “This post walks though a user selector for adding users to a chat. The key feature here is searching one model with the pg_search gem and then selecting objects from that search to add them to another model”

• Jason York published an article about Using ViewComponents with Turbo

Deep Dives

• Ollie Haydon-Mulligan published an article about Debugging Lock Wait Timeouts (in Ruby on Rails) → “I recently learned — through an investigation that rumbled on for a while — that it’s not always straightforward to work out what’s causing Lock Wait Timeouts. So here, I’m going to share how that investigation unfolded, focusing on the techniques that helped.”

• Akshay published a two new articles about Progressive Application Development with Hotwire and Understanding the Attribute Assignment API in Rails

Related

• Jeremy Smith shared an article about Numbers To Know For Managing (Software Teams) → “Learning how to manage is a long race - it takes many years and each lap offers new learnings. Along the way, anchors emerge that can help orient a manager when a number of other variables are in flux”

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