👋 Short Ruby News - Edition #44

Discover the world of Ruby in this comprehensive newsletter covering week 21 of 2023. Find code samples, community updates, gems, resources, and thought-provoking discussions.

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👐 Our Community

👉 All about Code and Ruby

🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

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👐 Our Community

👐 Friendly rb announced a new speaker - Jason Sweet ▶ friendlyrb.com

Source: @friendlyrb@ruby.social

👐 Ruby Conf Thailand announced their new keynote speaker ▶ rubyconfth.com

Source: @rubyconfth

👐 Ruby On Rails announced their website is ready at rubyonrails.org/world

Source: @rails

👐 Rocky Mountain Ruby announced that their conference would happen on 6-7 October 2023 ▶ rockymtnruby.dev

Source: @rockymntruby@ruby.social

👐 Jason Swett announced that Sin City Ruby - Las Vegas Ruby Conference is back and will happen in 21-22 March 2024. Checkout sincityruby.com

Source: @JasonSwett

👐 Adrian Marin together with Yaroslav Shmarov launched a new podcast called friendly.show:

Source: @adrianthedev

👐 Pasha Kalashnikov shared a thread about why they think the popularity of Ruby and Rails will increase:

Source: @kalashnikov_en

Here are three more tweets from Pasha’s thread:

Source: @kalashnikov_en

Source: @kalashnikov_en

On the same topic, Andrei Maxim shared why he is still working with Ruby and Rails after 15 years:

Source: @rockatanescu

Andrei Maxim shared the The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2023

Source: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-23

👐 Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It announced they are seeking sponsors. Reach out to Drew if you are interested in sponsoring the podcast.

Source: @Coding_Coders

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Salma Elbadawi shared a thread to help people that are learning Ruby:

👉 Stanislav Katkov shared a thread about how to check spelling mistakes in Ruby using two gems: misspell and codespell

Source: @5katkov

👉 Caleb Hearth asked about alternatives on how to get min/max from an array of hashes:

Source: @caleb@ruby.social

👉 Louis Brauer shared their amazement of IRB, providing examples in the terminal:

Source: @louis@ruby.social

👉Brian Kung shared a code sample showing how to combine if and unless in the same statement in Ruby:

Source: @briankung@ruby.social

👉Ruby For All asked about how to stay up to date with Ruby:

Source: @rubyforall

Here are some of the answers:

Source: @pdobb

Source: @duckiedevshow

Source: @DRBragg

Source: @lucianghinda

👉Matt Swanson asked about a dilemma of using find_or_create_by in a constant:

Source: @_swanson

There are excellent replies to this question, and I invite you to read them all. I will put here what Matt shared as the solution:

Source: @_swanson

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👉 Joël Quenneville shared a code sample about how to think about FeatureEnvy when using Array#map:

Source: @joelquen

👉 Paul Dobbin Schmaltz shared a zsh function to search and open Rubocop docs See gist

Source: Source: @pdobb

👉Ruby Cademy shared a thread about module function and extend self:

Source: @RubyCademy

They summarised the differences as:

Source: @RubyCademy

👉 Saron Yitbarek asked for recommendations for learning Ruby on Rails:

Source: @saronyitbarek

Here are some of the recommendations she received:

• GoRails and their Ruby Scripts and IRB and Build a Blog with Ruby on Rails Youtube series

• Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl

• The Odin Project

• Demystifying Rails

• Programming Ruby 3.2 (5th Edition)

• The Rails 7 Way

• Agile Web Development with Rails

• Hotrails Dev tutorial

• Deanin YouTube videos

• Ruby on Rails 7

• Drifting Ruby

• Akshay Khot Blog

👉 Ruby Cademy shared two ways to replace a hash key:

Source: @RubyCademy

👉 Craig shared a series of shortcuts to run Rspec tests in Vim:

Source: @JalisoCSP

👉 Greg Navis shared a thread about running assertions in production:

Source: @gregnavis

Source: @gregnavis

👉Ruby Cademy shared a code sample showing how to use attribute_method_affix and column_defaults

Source: @RubyCademy

👉 Joël Quenneville shared a thread about how to think about reduce:

Source: @joelquen

Source: @joelquen

👉 u/HurricaneCecil asked a question about why to choose Hash instead of HashWithIndifferentAccess:

Source: /u/HurricaneCecil

That generated an interesting conversation with some good examples. I picked here only a couple of answers:

Source: u/AlexanderMomchilov

Source: u/AlexanderMomchilov

Source: u/schneems

If you want to read more about why Ruby has not yet adopted this, you can read the comments in Ruby issue tracker

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🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🧰 Ruby On Rails announced the release of version 7.0.5 for Rails ▶️ Read the announcement or Read the changelog

Source: @rails

🧰 Stephen shared their new tool called ai_refactor

Source: https://github.com/stevegeek/ai_refactor

🧰 Jeremy Evans announced the release version 2.30.0 of Rodauth ▶️ Read the release notes

Source: https://github.com/jeremyevans/rodauth/discussions/337

🧰 Kirill Platonov announced two new plugins for standard: standard-minitest and standard-thread_safety:

Source: https://github.com/kirillplatonov/standard-minitest

Source: https://github.com/kirillplatonov/standard-thread_safety

🧰 Nick Schwaderer announced the release of version 0.2.0 for chat_gpt_error_handler ▶ Release notes

Source: @schwad_rb

🧰 John Nunemaker shared that HTTParty reached half the number of downloads of Rails:

Source: @jnunemaker

🧰 Thoughtbot announced they launched a new documentation for factory_bot  ▶ New Docs for factory_bot.

Direct link to documentation is thoughtbot.github.io/factory_bot

Source: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/new-docs-for-factory_bot

🧰 Dima Fatko shared their gem data_checks: Regression testing for data

Source: https://github.com/fatkodima/data_checks

🧰 Konnor Rogers announced the release of version 1.0.0 of mrujs

Source: https://mrujs.netlify.app/references/comparison-to-ujs

🧰 Dima Fatko shared their gem called online_migrations about online_migrations: Catch unsafe PostgreSQL migrations in development:

Source: https://github.com/fatkodima/online_migrations

🧰 Rubyist For iOS announced a new version of their iOS app. You can download it from here

Source: @RubyistApp

🧰 Gene M. Angelo, Jr. published a new gem called dsu:

Source: https://github.com/gangelo/dsu

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🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Jason Gorman shared their view about what is a 10x developer:

Source: @jasongorman@ruby.social

👉 Benoit shared a link from PostgreSQL documentation about 11.4. Indexes and ORDER BY explaining how order by and limit can affect performance:

Source: @benoit@ruby.social

🤝Jason Swett shared their opinion about what is a 10x programmer:

Source: @JasonSwett

🤝 Stanislav Katkov shared their perspective about combining employment with solopreneurship:

Source: @5katkov

🤝 Paul Dobbin Schmaltz shared a tip about organising aliases by using the bang concept from Ruby:

Source: @pdobb

🤝Donn Felker shared an advice about how to improve the PR reviews:

Source: @donnfelker

On the same topic of explaining the why Drew Bragg shared

Source: @DRBragg

🤝Sebastian Wilgosz shared a thread about ways to monetize content creation:

Source: @sebwilgosz

You should read the entire thread, where he is talking about guest articles, donations, sponsorships, consulting, premium content, membership program, webinars, sponsored content, affiliate marketing, ebooks, selling digital products and much much more. It is a thread worth saving.

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More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

📚 Books & Slides

🗒️ sonota88 shared the slides of Masataka Pocke Kuwabara’s talk about Let's write RBS!

🗒️ Yuichiro Kaneko published their slides about The Future Vision of Ruby Parser

📚Pragmatic Programmers announced their latest promotion - valid until 1st June - checkout Promotions

Source: @pragprog

They have titles like Programming Ruby 3.2 (5th Edition), Agile Web Development with Rails 7, Modern Front-End Development for Rails, Second Edition and Effective Testing with RSpec 3.

🗞 Newsletters

• 🗞️ Allison Pike published a new edition of Once a Maintainer: Marco Roth

• 🗞 Zzak published a new edition of This Week in Rails - May 26, 2023

• 🗞 Joe Masilotti published a new edition of Hotwire Newsletter - May Edition

• 🗞 Greg Molnar published a new edition of Infer name with link_to - Rails Tricks Issue 8

• 🗞️ Ruby Libhunt published a new edition of Awesome Ruby Newsletter - Issue 366

• 🗞️ Ruby Radar published a new edition about Here's to a Long Weekend!

• 🗞️ Ruby Weekly published a new edition: So quiet that I'm Photoshopping broccoli

🎧 Podcasts

• 🎧 Jason Swett published a new episode about 182 - ChatGPT with Lee McAlilly - The Code with Jason Podcast

• 🎧 The Ruby On Rails Podcast published a new episode Episode 471: RubyKaigi 2023 Recap (Brittany + Jemma)

• 🎧 The Rails Changelog published a new episode about 007: Rails 7.0.5 released! Rails World CFP open, ticket landing page available

📽️ 🎥 Videos

Talks

• 📽️ Dave Kimura published the video version of This Week in Rails - 2023-05-26

• 📽️ Jason Swett published a new video about ChatGPT-assisted TDD (2023-05-11 Code with Jason Meetup session)

• 📽️ The Rubber Duck Dev Show published a new episode about Monetizing Your Content Pt. 2 with Seb Wilgosz

Screencasts

• 🎥 RailsDrill published a new video about Creating Secure Tunnels in Ruby on Rails with Ngrok

• 🎥 Deanin published new videos about:

  • Vitepress Wiki with Ruby on Rails 7 Example

  • Strong Migrations Gem for Ruby on Rails 7

  • Palm AI with Turbo, Tailwind, and Flask | Ruby on Rails 7 Tutorial

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new

• Kevin Luo published an article about Setup a basic authentication in Rails with HTTP Authentication

• Gowsik Vivekanandan published an article about Integrate OpenAI API in Ruby applications

• Adam Rice published an article about Common Table Expressions in Active Record

How-Tos

• Konnor Rogers published a new article about Rails Frontend Bundling - Which one should I choose?

• Mika Henriksson published an article about High performant ruby installations

• Joël Quenneville published an article about Avoid Putting Logic in Map Blocks

• Shemin Anto published an article about Improving the application performance by harnessing the full potential of ancestry gem

• Akshay Khot published an article about How to Render Markdown Views in Rails

• Guidemotion published an article about How to Install Rails on Windows 11 Step by Step

• Akshay Khot published an article about A Beginner's Guide to Rails Parameters

Deep Dives

• Evgeniy Demin published an article about The Mysterious Time-to-DateTime Conversion: Unraveling Ruby’s Unexpected Behavior

• Paweł Dąbrowski published an article about A comprehensive guide to the anonymous functions

• Harrison Broadbent published an article about Learn Hotwire by building the simplest possible Hotwire and Ruby on Rails app — a beginners guide

Related

• Ayush published a new article about How I manage my git history

• Lucas Barret published a new article about Postgres Concurrency : What could go wrong (part 2)

• William Kennedy published a new article about Turbo Android - Part 3 How to Access Native Android Features with the JavaScript Bridge

• Andrey Sitnik published an article about 11 HTML best practices for login & sign-up forms

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