💻 Short Ruby News - The Code Edition #41
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💻 Short Ruby News - The Code Edition #41
Briefly about everything happening in Ruby world - week 18 of 2023
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🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates
🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)
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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:
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🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates
🧰 Mike Perham announced a new version v.7.1.0 of Sidekiq Read the changelog here
🧰 Josh Justice shared their gem shorten_rb: A simple Rails link shortener that respects privacy
🧰 Joel Drapper announced they are working on a new extension for literal gem: A literal Ruby gem.
🧰 Hasumi Hitoshi announced the release of version 3.2 for mruby/c (another implementation of mruby) Read the release notes
🧰 David Heinemeier Hansson announced the release of v.0.12.0 of mrsk Read the changelog
🧰 Juliana Dias shared a repository rubyonrails-brasil/lizarb
🧰 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,
🧰 Nate Hopkins announced a new version of their gem model_probe: ActiveRecord schema visualization and model organization made easy
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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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