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👐 Friendly.Rb announced a new speaker, see friendlyrb.com for more details

👐 Dave Copeland shared reasons why Rails and Ruby are great:

And here are what other people added:

👐 Ruby For Good announced that registrations are open for the event in July at rubyforgood.org/events

👐 Ian announced an update for the  alterisian.github.io/helloworld website:

👐 Dave Paola shared feedback from a recent applicant:

Here are some of the replies:

There are many replies to Dave's tweet that I recommend you read.

👐 On the same topic, Gomez shared about how they use Ruby on Rails at PlanetScale:

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 wiki.nikiv.dev/programming-languages/ruby is an extensive wiki created by Nikita with many resources for learning or deep diving into Ruby. Here is a screenshot with just a tiny part of all the resources:

There is a similar wiki about Rails maintained by the same author.

👉 Noah Gibbs shared about code and the choices we have to make between them.

This triggered a lot of replies. Please read them directly, as there is a good but healthy debate.

Here are just some of the replies in a random order. This seems to me a sensible topic for our community, so please read the other replies for context:

Other links mentioned in the replies: GoodCop and Relaxed Ruby Style.

👉 Paul Mucur shared a TIL about create_or_find_by:

👉 Ben Sheldon (He/Him) shared two learning points about Regexp and a code sample showing Ruby 3.2 Regexp timeout:

👉Benoit shared a code sample showing how to display PSQL style tables in Rails console. Check the gist at PSQL table in Rails console

👉 Brandon Weaver asked a question about reducing the processing of requests for assets by Webmock with VCR:

Olivier Lacan replied with the link to Ignore Request for VCR. You might also want to read the analysis Brandon Weaver added in this issue opened on webmock gem: Performance of `WebMock::Util::Headers.normalize_headers` · Issue #1027

👉Kay Rhodes shared a tip about how to fix a MySQL gem error:

👉 Takashi Kokubun shared what the current purpose of RJIT is:

👉 Prabin Poudel shared about deployment options:

Among the replies:

• Capistrano

• Heroku

• MRSK

• Custom Bash scripts with Docker Swarm

• Hatchbox

👉 Ruby Cademy shared a code sample showing how to use Object#tap (that Ruby 3.2 seems to be defined at Kernel#tap vs in Ruby 2.7 being at Object#tap):

👉Alexandre Ruban asked a question about SRP on an Active Model has over 70 attributes:

 Matt Swanson replied with:

👉 Brad Gessler shared a code sample showing a form builder:

👉 Adrian Marin asked a question about integration StimulusReflex with Hotwire:

Marco Roth clarified this:

👉Ahmed shared a code sample showing how to use metaprogramming to define methods:

👉 Xavier Noria shared a code sample about the break keyword used in loops:

👉 Josef Strzibny shared a thread with gems recommendations:

Here are the recommended gems:

• vessel - “high-level web crawling framework”

• mapkick - “Create beautiful JavaScript maps with one line of Ruby. No more fighting with mapping libraries”

• simple_calendar - “Simple Calendar is designed to do one thing well: render a calendar”

• business_time - business hours math

• heya - “Heya is a campaign mailer for Rails. Think of it like ActionMailer, but for timed email sequences. It can also perform other actions like sending a text message”

• noticed - “Notifications for your Ruby on Rails app”

• chartkick - “Create beautiful JavaScript charts with one line of Ruby”

• blind_index - “Securely search encrypted database fields”

• split - “Split is a rack based A/B testing framework designed to work with Rails, Sinatra or any other rack based app”

• store_attribute - “ActiveRecord extension which adds typecasting to store accessors”

• logidze - “Logidze provides tools for logging DB records changes when using PostgreSQL”

• discard - “Soft deletes for ActiveRecord done right”

• counter_culture - “Turbo-charged counter caches for your Rails app”

• pretender - “As an admin, there are times you want to see exactly what another user sees”

• secure_headers - “The gem will automatically apply several headers that are related to security”

• ahoy - “Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails”

• blazer - “Explore your data with SQL. Easily create charts and dashboards, and share them with your team”

• i18n-tasks - “i18n-tasks helps you find and manage missing and unused translations”

• instant18n - “Use OpenAI's GPT large-language model to power internationalization of the text in your Rails application”

• jsonb_accessor - “Adds typed jsonb backed fields as first class citizens to your ActiveRecord models”

• invoice_printer - “Super simple PDF invoicing. InvoicePrinter is a server, command line program and pure Ruby library to generate PDF invoices in no time. You can use Ruby or JSON as the invoice representation to build the final PDF”

👉 Brad Gessler shared a thread about batch resource manipulation. Here are the first two tweets from the thread:

👉 Craig shared a list of shortcuts they use when programming in Rails:

👉Colleen Schnettler asked for recommendations of Rails CMS:

Here are some of the recommendations:

• Sitepress (Ruby)

• Bridgetown (Ruby)

• Avo (Ruby)

• AlchemyCMS (Ruby)

• Middleman (Ruby) - check out also this repo for Middleman 4 + Tailwind CSS

• Jekyll (Ruby)

• SpinalCMS (Ruby)

👉 Ruby Cademy shared a code sample about using Rails ActiveSupport::CurrentAttributes

👉 Xavier Noria shared a thread about “reloading” naming:

He explain further about what happens in Ruby:

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🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🧰 Dmitry Tsepelev announced a new gem rubocop_director: Plan your refactorings properly

🧰 Dima Fatko announced a new gem pluck_in_batches: A faster alternative to the custom use of `in_batches` with `pluck`

🧰 Nick Schwaderer announced a new gem chat_gpt_error_handler:

🧰 Okura Masafumi launched a new gem okuramasafumi/niwa: New, Integrated, Working Annotations

🧰 Mike Dalessio announced the release of version 1.15.0 of nokogiri Read the release notes

🧰 Mike Dalessio announced the release of version 1.6.3 of the sqlite3-ruby gem Read the release notes

🧰 Paweł Urbanek published a new gem rails-brotli-cache: Rails cache using Brotli algorithm offers better compression and performance

🧰 Yuta Saito announced they release version 2.0.0 of ruby.wasm Read release notes

🧰 Ivo Herweijer published a new benchmark for Roda that now includes Ruby 3.3 preview1:

🧰 Atsushi Tatsuma published a new gem llama_cpp - provides Ruby bindings for the llama.cpp

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🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Benoit shared an SQL to simulate a slow SQL update in PostgreSQL:

🤝 Nate Berkopec shared a reminder to check resources if they are over provisioned:

🤝 Chris Wanstrath shared a thread about the early days of Github and keeping it profitable:

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📚 Books

📚 Noel Rappin announced that Programming Ruby 3.2 (5th Edition) is now draft-complete

🗞 Newsletters

🗞️ Ruby Weekly published a new edition: Ruby 3.3 makes its first appearance

🗞Vipul A M published a new edition of This Week in Rails about Rails World CFP, ActiveRecord.disconnect_all!, optimized where query and more!

🗞 Greg Molnar published a new edition of Rails Tricks about Shared examples with Minitest - Rails Tricks Issue 7

🗞️ Ruby Libhunt published a new edition of Awesome Ruby Newsletter - Issue 365

🗞️ Ruby Radar published a new edition about Spilling Beans

🎧 Podcasts

🎧Rooftop Ruby published a new episode about 13: Open Source and More With Marco Roth

🎧Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It published a new episode about Episode 21 - Nick Schwaderer

🎧 Indie Rails published a new episode about Pascal Laliberté - 6 things to avoid as a freelancer

🎧 Remote Ruby published a new episode about Railsconf Recap | Remote Ruby | Episode 229

🎧 Ruby Rogues published an episode with Brad Gessler about Building Rails Application with Phlex

📽️ 🎥 Videos

Talks

📽️ Yaroslav Shmarov published their first episode of SupeChat Amanda Perino from Rails Foundation about Rails World

📽️ The Rubber Duck Dev Show published a new episode about Leveling Up For Juniors With CodeWithJulie

Screencasts

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published a new episode about Rails 7 #133 API Pagination with Pagy

🎥 Dave Kimura published a new episode about Tokenized Search

🎥 Deanin published new episodes about:

• Flask on Rails | Python & Ruby on Rails 7 Tutorial

• Speech Recognition in Ruby on Rails 7

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new

• Samuel Williams shared their slides from Ruby Conf AU: Asynchronous Rails

• Big Binary published an article about Rails 7.1 adds ActiveRecord::Base::normalizes. On the same topic Sampat Badhe also published an article about Rails 7.1 AR adds normalizes API for attribute values

• Shivam Singh Chahar published an article about Rails 7.1 adds support for responsive images.

How-Tos

• Maurício Maia published an article How-To Add Recommendations to a Rails App with pgvector and OpenAI

• Aestimo Kirina published an article about Manage Your Ruby Logs Like a Pro

• Akshay Khot published an article about How to Create Custom Flash Types in Rails

• Adam Rice published an article about Debugging with introspection

• Takashi Kokubun published an article about their talk at RubyKaigi about [JP] Announced how to write a JIT compiler on RubyKaigi (English version translated with Google)

• Ariel Juodziukynas published an article about Handling Environment Variables in Ruby

Deep Dives

• Unathi Chonco published an article about Ruby Method Lookup Demystified: Inheritance, Mixins, and Super

• Paweł Dąbrowski published an article about Unraveling the mystery of the super keyword

Related

• Adam Rice published an article about Why you shouldn't exclusively hire senior developers

• Dave Copeland shared an article about My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated

• Paweł Dąbrowski published an article about Understanding database Indexes in PostgreSQL

• Jeremy Smith shared an repository about prompt-engineering: Tips and tricks for working with Large Language Models like OpenAI's GPT-4

• Lucas Barret published an article about Postgres concurrency what could go wrong (part 1)

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