Short Ruby News - Edition #71

Discover the world of Ruby in this comprehensive newsletter covering week 51 of 2023. Find code samples, community updates, gems, resources, and thought-provoking discussions.

Lucian Ghinda (from ShortRuby)

Dec 11, 2023

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🚀 New Products

🚀 Jason Swett launched their Coaching for engineering leaders service:

Source: **https://www.codewithjason.com/coaching**

🚀 Josh Pigford launched shared Gemfile.Directory — View Gemfiles Of Your Favorite Rails Apps

🚀 Manu J launched Zest UI Kit For Ruby On Rails

🚀 Garrett Dimon launched a new book called Frictionless Generators

🚀 Errol Schmidt launched SecretLink.org - The Secure Way to Share Sensitive Information

🚀 Joe Masilotti launched Daily Log

📅 Events

📅 Rubyfuza & Friends shared the CFP is open for RubyFuza 2024

📅 Hexdevs announced Hacking with Ruby Prism happening on 15 December. RSVP here

👉 All about Code and Ruby

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👉 Takashi Kokubun announced that `it` is accepted as default block parameter → read about it here Feature #18980: Re-reconsider numbered parameters: `it` as a default block parameter (Read the notes from the Dev Meeting discussion here )

I think Peter from RubyWeekly describes it well:

Source: https://rubyweekly.com/issues/681

in case there are concerns about breaking RSpec, Joel shared this:

and Martin Spickermann shared a code sample with it:

👉 Jean Boussier shared Shopify is running Ruby 3.3.0-dev in production:

David Heinemeier Hansson shared they are also running Ruby 3.3.0-dev for Hey and Basecamp:

👉 More Advent of code solutions shared:

Onur Ozer shared their repo containing solutions onurozer/advent-of-code-2023
Jean Tessier shared their repo containing solutions at jeantessier/advent-of-code-2023
Cj Avilla published new videos solving Advent on Code in Ruby

👉 Thiago Araujo shared a code sample showing how to chain Enumerable:

👉 Dhaval Singh shared a thread about Enumerable#each_cons (read the entire thread):

👉 Dave Copeland shared that Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails is now updated to Rails 7.1:

👉 Joel Drapper shared about transitioning from ViewComponent to Phlex:

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👉 Colleen Schnettler shared a thread about building an alert with Hotwire. Read the entire thread (alternatively read on nitter):

👉 Postmodern shared a code sample showing how to use kramdown-man to add man pages to Ruby CLI:

👉 Gergely Orosz asked about big Ruby codebases:

Here are some of replies in the thread (read on nitter):

👉 Joel Drapper shared a code sample from their rainbow-unicorn gem:

👉 Jean Boussier shared about common real-life tasks that should be considered when running a benchmark:

👉 Joel Moss shared about the lack of a way to separate concerns from models and controllers:

👉 Brad Gessler asked about resources to learn about low level Ruby construct:

Here are the two recommendations:

Read Karafka code as it uses threads, workers, scheduler, queues and it is very well documented
workingwithruby.com

👉 Nathan S. Robinson asked who is building in public with Ruby on Rails:

Source: @NathanSRobinson (read on nitter)

So far, at least 95 people have replied to this question. See all replies here or on nitter.

👉 Nick Schwaderer shared a code sample from Shoes:

👉 Kevin Newton shared a Ruby code sample showing various strings and their encodings:

👉 Ahmed Nadar shared a code sample from working at RapidRails UI Components for Ruby on Rails

👉 Josef Strzibny shared a code sample showing how they added Sitemap for their website:

👉 Stephen Margheim asked about real-world Rails application load:

Here are some of the replies:

“Avg: 1160 RPM = 19.3 RPS | Peak: 1780 RPM = 29.6 RPS” (source)
“avg 2200rpm, peak 4000rpm for a well-known newspaper site where most requests returns full HTML pages” (source)
“http://mynewsdesk.com does about 2k RPM (33 RPS) on average. Peaked around 7k RPM (116 RPS) in the last 7 days” (source)
“Average: 66 RPS | Peak: 110 RPS | Running on Rails: 5.2.4.1 | Mysql: 5.7” (source)
“Average: 2 RPS | Peak: 34 RPS” (source)
“210.5 RPM for chaskiq.io” (source)

👉 Ruby Cademy shared about using install_if in Gemfile:

👉 Facundo Espinosa shared a code sample from Turbo::Frames::FrameRequest module automatically included in ApplicationController:

👉 Bram Jetten shared a code sample where they implemented a similar functionality as Rails find_signed

👉 Vladimir Dementyev shared a comparison of running RubyNext with/without Prism:

👉 Nate Berkopec shared a code sample showing how a memory leak can happen in Ruby:

👉 Joel Moss asked about why Ruby has elsif instead of elseif

I'm not sure if in the replies (read on nitter) there is a real explanation, but there are a lot of hypotheses.

👉 Andrew Mason shared they created a group on Snipd for Rubyists (premium plan)

👉 Ruby Cademy shared a code sample about private constants:

👉 I shared a thread about refactoring with endless method and here is the final refactoring form:

👉 Andrew Mason asked about Ruby on Rails as an option for a beginner:

Here are some replies, but you should read the entire thread (read on nitter):

👉 Ruby Cademy shared about using Rails safe_constantize method:

👉 Stanislav Katkov shared a code sample showing how to run tests forever (until they fail)

👉 I shared a thread where I reviewed the Mastodon open source app (read the thread on @ruby.social, or twitter or read it on nitter:

👉 David Alejandro shared a code sample about querying JSON fields:

👉 Adrian Oprea shared why they think Ruby is easy to learn:

👉 u/Leizzures asked why is Ruby used so much in Startup/scale-ups:

There are more than 100 replies, I will share here only three, but it is worth reading them all:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/18ca02h/comment/kc9igf9

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/18ca02h/comment/kcaq2oo

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/18ca02h/comment/kcu8wqm

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🧰 Postmodern announced the release of Release 1.0.0 · postmodern/kramdown-man

Source: https://github.com/postmodern/kramdown-man/releases/tag/v1.0.0

🧰 Justin Collins announced a new release of Brakeman: Brakeman 6.1.0 Released

🧰 John Nunemaker announced a new version of FlipperCloud:

🧰 Paul Mucur announced a new release of GitHub - mudge/re2 at v2.5.0

🆕 🧰 Harrison Broadbent published a new gem better_mailer_previews: Better Mailer Previews is a Ruby on Rails gem that makes it easier to preview ActionMailer email templates.

Source: https://github.com/harrison-broadbent/better_mailer_previews

🆕 🧰 Samuel Williams announced a new gem async-actor

Source: https://socketry.github.io/async-actor/guides/getting-started/index

🧰 Stanislav Katkov announced a new release for yard-markdown: yard theme plugin that generates markdown documentation for gems

Source: https://github.com/skatkov/yard-markdown

🧰 Joel Moss announced a new release for Release 0.4.0 · joelmoss/spaced

Source: https://github.com/joelmoss/spaced/releases/tag/v0.4.0

🧰 Stephen Margheim shared SQLite on Rails | Fractaled Mind

🧰 Iryna Pisklyarova announced a new version of Ruby Mine 2023.3: Generally Available AI Assistant, Improved Project Indexing, New Supported Libraries And Technologies

Source: https://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2023/12/rubymine-2023-3

🧰 Chris Oliver announced a new version of pay-rails/pay

🧰 Chris Oliver announced a new version of Release v1.0.0 · acts_as_tenant

Source: https://github.com/ErwinM/acts_as_tenant/releases/tag/v1.0.0

🧰 Xavier Noria announced they are thinking to implement an experimental null inflector for zeitwerk: Efficient and thread-safe code loader for Ruby

Source: https://github.com/fxn/zeitwerk#zeitwerknullinflector

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Jason Swett shared about how we should view testing:

🤝 Mohammad A. Ali shared JSONB branch is merged to SQLite → SQLite: Timeline

🤝 Erwin Kroon shared about code reviews:

🤝 Brad Frost shared about working together:

🤝 William Kennedy shared about the advantages to hire a junior:

Source: @_williamkennedy (read on nitter)

🤝 Adrian Oprea shared about building filter-able suggestion list with only HTML Standard

🤝 Dhaval Singh shared a trend of maybe hiring starting to slowly increase in tech:

🤝 Paul Graham shared a Replit graph about how many people go through each day of a tutorial:

🤝 Arian Celina shared about organising work:

🤝 Jason Swett asked a question about practical lessons people wish they learned in Computer Science school:

There are more than 21 replies (read on nitter) worth reading.

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition about Ruby 3.4 to get the 'it' factor

🗞 Any Cable published a new edition about Any Cables Monthly #16

🗞 Emmanuel Hayford published a new edition of This Week in Rails about Allow object_id as a column name for ActiveRecord and a lot more!

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 49 - Stimulus Hotkeys, new Turbo Native app, and more!

🗞 Awesome Ruby Newsletter published a new edition Issue 394 - Duke Libraries Drop Basecamp

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Jason Swett published a new podcast about 203 - Simmon Li - The Code with Jason Podcast

🎧 Ruby For All published a new podcast about Live From Rubyconf 2023 — Conference Recap, Talk Highlights, Ruby 4, Hacking on OSS, Restaurant Reviews, and Much More

🎧 The Rails Changelog published a new podcast about 016: Fireside chat with Rafael França

🎧 Matt Swanson published a new episode about Yagni | Programming Books W/ Aaron Francis

🎧 Remote Ruby published a new episode about Scaling Buzzsprout: A Deep Dive Into Podcast Hosting, Cdn, Rails, And Business Happiness With Tom Rossi

🎧 The Ruby on Rails Podcast published a new episode about Episode 498: Remote Ruby X The Ruby On Rails Podcast

📽️ 🎥 Videos

Screencasts

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published a new video about #155 Generate, store, email PDF invoices. DocRaptor API, HTML to PDF, ActiveStorage, ActionMailer

🎥 Drifting Ruby published a new video about Episode 431 - Hotkeys

🎥 I published a short video about A Good Use Case For The Endless Method Syntax

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

Stephen Margheim published an article about SQLite Myths: Linear writes don't scale and SQLite on Rails: Improving the enhanced SQLite3 adapter

RoRvsWild published a new article about Everyday performance rules for Ruby on Rails developers - RorVsWild

Noel Rappin published an article about How To Manage Duplicate Test Setup, or Can I Interest You In Weird RSpec?

Jiaqi Liu, Daniel RogartDaniel Rogart and Xin WuXin Wu published an article about Upgrading Github.com To MySQL 8.0

Apoorv Tiwari published an article about Ruby 3.3 Resolves The Range#Size Bug For Rational Endpoints

Ruby Central published an article about Ruby Central Welcomes New Board Members

Brandon Keepers, John Nunemaker published an article about Flipper 1.1.0

Deep Dives 🔍

Sebastian Wilgosz published a new article about The underrated power of dry-schema

Kevin Newton published article about how the prism Ruby parser works: Part 4 - Writes, Part 5 - Operator writes, Part 6 - Control-flow writes, Part 7 - Control-flow , Part 8 - Target writes, Part 9 - Strings, Part 10 - Regular expressions

Ariel Juodziukynas published an article about Exploring Ruby's Global Constants And Variables

I published an article about Ruby on Rails Open Source: Mastodon

How-TOs 📝

Postmodern published an article about Postmodern How To Add A Man Page To Your Ruby Project

Akshay Khot published an article about How Respond To Method Works In Rails

Myungwoo Song published an article about Optimizing Ruby On Rails Serializers: Efficient Hash Unpacking In Serializer

Franklin Yu published an article about Error Of “Ruby Function Name String” When Compiling Ruby

Postmodern published an article about Postmodern Solving Advent Of Cyber 2023 Day 2 Using Ruby

Harshaan Nihal Khan published a new article about Optimizing System Performance by Implementing a Dual Database Setup in Rails

Andres Chacon published an article about Ruby Tip: Did You Know That Ruby Supports Pattern Matching?

Mario Alberto Chávez Cárdenas published an article about Sound To Script: Using Open Ai’s Whisper Model And Whisper.Cpp

Aaron Sumner published an article about Write Resilient Tests With Matchers That Take Other Matchers

I published an article about An Endless Method Use Case

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