💻 Short Ruby News - The Code Edition #37

Briefly about everything happening in Ruby world - week 14 of 2023

April 10, 2023

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👐 Our Community

👐 Visuality announced a new meetup of PLRUG Register here

👐 Amsterdam Ruby Meetup announced a new edition of Rails Girls NL happening on May 20th in Rotterdam:

👐 Ruby Conf Th announced that call for papers is now open Go to RubyConf Thailand 2023 CFP

👐 Ruby On Rails announced a new conference in Europe Rails World is coming

👐 Samuel Path shared a thought about how zeitwerk project:

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👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Brandon Weaver asked for recommendations for frontend design frameworks:

Here are some of the recommendations:

Here is an example of the code that you can find there:

👉Salma Elbadawi shared a thread about concepts that are transferrable between programming languages:

👉Will Cosgrove shared a code sample showing how to minimally render only the requested turbo-frame from Phlex

👉Aaron Patterson shared a thread showing how their TenderJIT is evolving:

👉Martin Spickermann shared a tip about using - modified in strftime

👉Matt Swanson shared a code sample showing how to implement toggles for 15 email notification types:

Here are some more solutions proposed in replies to Matt:

There are multiple other ideas proposed in the replies to Matt's tweet.

👉Nate Berkopec shared about the advantage of knowing bin/rails runner

👉Josef Strzibny shared a Rail tip about how to use rails runner

👉Joe Masilotti asked about implementing complex querying with Ransack:

Here are some of the replies:

But it would help if you read the entire conversation as more ideas and code are shared about implementing a search ranking algorithm.

👉 Pragmatic Programmers asked about favorite features of Ruby language:

Here are some of the replies, but you should read all responses as there are many more:

  • “The focus on human aspects: The community, usability and overall friendliness” (@S_2K)

  • “It's focus on human usage. No programming language feels as natural to me as Ruby” (@alex_takitani)

  • “Its readability” (@monfresh)

  • “I know it’s actually Rails, but the almost completely absent boilerplate” (@j_c_fitz)

  • “Hard to pick one. Terse but readable. Duck typing, monkey patching is there if you need it. Modules/mixins and everything is an object. Also the community is still awesome!” (@JDBet45)

  • “I do all my PoCs in Ruby when I need to understand the product we plan to use. It's ease of usage, developer happiness” (@ohmyroots)

👉 Shiva Kumar shared a thread about Data.define:

👉Marian D Dev asked about how to keep models and controllers skinny and readable:

Here are some of the recommendations:

And here are some of the replies:

And here is a good summary that Marian did after reading all replies to his own question:

👉Josef Strzibny shared a Rails tip about how to use puma_worker_killer gem

👉Matt Swanson shared a tip about how to create collapsible sections without Javascript:

👉Roman shared a code sample showing how to implement styled-components with Phlex and Tailwind. See the gist at POC Tailwind + Phlex component.

👉David reminded us about the spacer_template option in Rails render collection:

👉Lewis Youl share a code sample about using allow_value should matcher

👉Naofumi Kagami shared a code sample about how to use Current

👉 The Rails Changelog shared a code sample showing that Action Mailer will add callbacks in Rails 7.1:

👉 Matt Swanson shared a code sample showing how to trigger a tracker:

👉Matt Swanson shared a code sample showing how to use components with a form builder:

👉 Ken Collins shared a code sample showing how to use globalid gem:

Vladimir Dementyev replied with a code sample showing a concern using globalid:

👉 Noob_understore_ asked how easy it is to learn Ruby from zero experience. If you did that it would be great if you can contribute to this discussion with your own experience:

👉 Rose_arias asked about recommendations to learn Ruby:

Here are some of the recommendations:

And here is a recommended path by Akshay Khot:

🤞 I imagine that if you have read so far, you find value in this newsletter.

🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🧰 Mike Dalessio announced the release of version v2.21.0.rc1 for loofah (“Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri”) . Read the release notes

🧰 Jean Boussier announced a PR that will be part of Ruby 3.3 about Implement `Process.warmup`. Check out the PR or the feature 18885 on Ruby tracker

🧰 Mike Perham announced a new release of sidekiq v.7.0.8 with a security fix Read the changelog

🧰 Konnor Rogers announced a new version of their Rhino Editor

🧰 Jeremy Evans announced a new release v.2.4.0 of Forme 2.4.0. Read the changelog

🧰 Lázaro Nixon announced a new feature for authentication-zero that is add masqueradable(Sign-in as button functionality)

🧰 Koichi Ito announced the release of verion 2.19.0 of RuboCop Rails 2.19.0

🧰 Rob Zolkos shared a commit that will be part of Rails 7.1 Improve typography of user facing validation messages. You can read the PR here

🧰 Rubocop released version 1.49 Read the release notes

🧰 Regina_begam announced on /r/ruby a new gem called nokolexbor

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🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Paul Denya shared a tip about setting the title to the current directory for iTerm:

🤝 Jason Swett shared a thought about the discussion about perfect code and shipping fast:

This reminded me of what Sandi Metz wrote about code design:

🤝Jason Swett shared a testing tip:

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