💻 Short Ruby News - The Code Edition #41

Briefly about everything happening in Ruby world - week 18 of 2023

May 08, 2023

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Just a reminder that Friendly.rb conference launched a new sponsorship tier: Community sponsorship at only $1250:

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👐 Adarsh announced that Ruby Central is inviting people to contribute in multiple ways. Check rubycentral.org/support

👐 Mike Dalessio shared that Shopify is still committed to investing in Ruby and Rails:

👐Adarsh announced that RubyCentral is re-starting the email list for community organisers:

👐 William Estoque shared about the maturity of Rails framework:

👐 Jon Yongfook shared about the tech stack they use to generate $50k MRR:

👐 Blue Ridge Ruby announced details for group activities - Check out June 2023 in Asheville, NC

👐 Ruby On Rails announced they opened the waiting list to be notified about early bird tickets - Subscribe at Rails World 2023

👐 Marian D Dev asked a question that I think can be valuable for multiple people in the community:

Here are some of the answers:

👐 /u/gaming-scientist asked about salary level in UK:

There are around 40 comments there comparing US and UK salaries and cost of living.

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉Postmodern shared a flow that could cause buggy behavior when using `to_s` with memoization:

👉 Joel Drapper shared a simple way to create a build factory with Ruby:

Joel shared more in their thread about building green_dots gem. Here is one of the code samples shared about implementing a let method like RSpec:

👉Dave Copeland shared a code sample showing how to use DATA/__END__ see the gist

If you want to read more, here is the official documentation for Ruby 3.2, but you can read more details in the docs for Ruby 1.9:

👉Andreas Haller asked about the performance of using class methods or object methods:

Here is a good explanation about how to approach this shared by Aaron Hebert:

👉Josef Strzibny shared about the performance improvements of using Ruby 3.2 YJIT in a real-world production app:

👉 John Nunemaker talks about his amazement with how Active Record behaves with the specified scope:

👉Greg Navis shared a thread about disabling specific deprecation messages:

👉Joël Quenneville asked about how many paths are present in the example they shared:

He then shared a flow chart that helps understanding the number of paths:

👉 Nate Berkopec shared a performance tip about using exists? in ActiveRecord:

👉 Jim Jones launched their new project callstacking.com 

👉 Matt Swanson shared a code sample showing how they implemented an ApplicationJob:

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

🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🧰 Mike Perham announced a new version v.7.1.0 of Sidekiq Read the changelog here

🧰 Joel Drapper announced they are working on a new extension for literal gem: A literal Ruby gem.

🧰 David Heinemeier Hansson announced the release of v.0.12.0 of mrsk Read the changelog

🧰 John Wilkinson introduced a new gem called simplekiq:

Any time that you find yourself needing to string together a long chain of jobs, particularly when there are multiple stages of Sidekiq-pro batches and callbacks involved, come home instead to the simple flavor of orchestrated job flow with Simplekiq.

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Note that this gem requires you be a Sidekiq Pro paid subscriber to be able to use it,

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🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Ernesto shared about using code coverage as a metric:

🤝 Nate Berkopec shared another argument why to keep things simple:

🤝 Jason Swett shared what writing code means:

He later shared a summary of the replies:

🤝 Gee Paw Hill talked about passion and joy:

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