Short Ruby News - Edition #80

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🚀 New Products & 📅 Events

👉 All about Code and Ruby

❤️ Why Choose Ruby

🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾 (articles, podcasts, videos, newsletters)

🚀 New Products

🚀 Marco Roth launched Stimulus Parser Playground

🚀 Sundeep Agarwal announced a new version of their book Ruby One-Liners:

🚀 Jason Swett launched a live coding every day:

and also launched Free Mentorship - Code with Jason

🚀 Rafael Peña Azar (pre)launched Skeletor.IO by RPA (the users will get to choose what they want from many options to generate custom templates):

🚀 Rails Designer launched a new UI components Library → RailsDesigner.com

📅 Events

📅 Jeremy Smith asked a hypothetical question about a Ruby on Trails backpacking trip:

📅 Geneva Ruby Brigade shared Mobilidée | Pour une mobilité heureuse

📅 Jason Swett shared about Sin City Ruby - Las Vegas Ruby Conference

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 New Rails versions are out:

👉 Ruby On Rails shared a code sample about using perform_all_later:

👉 Xavier Noria shared about block and closures:

👉 Mohammad A. Ali shared a benchmark for running YJIT:

👉 Emmanuel Hayford shared about Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer Examination

👉 Owais Khan shared a code sample about rendering ViewComponent:

👉Joel Drapper shared a code sample about Hash access and equality comparisons:

👉 Owais Khan shared about configuring VSCode to display ViewComponents:

👉 Benoit shared a code sample about implementing a thread pool:

👉Ayush shared  about an update of the book The Rails and Hotwire Codex

👉 Joshua Wood shared about using LazyVim for developing with Ruby

👉 Naofumi Kagami 加々美直史 shared concerns about complexity when building UI with Turbo:

Mike Ray Arriaga shared a code sample about adding a sleep to address loading state delay:

👉 Alireza Bashiri shared a code sample showing how to fix the Ruby 3.3.0 Docker image:

👉Joshua Wood shared a code sample about implementing the debugbar with Phlex:

👉 Josef Strzibny shared about Kamal and using environment variables on CI/CD:

👉 Josef Strzibny shared a rake task that purges unattached Active Storage blobs:

Here is another perspective:

👉 Xavier Noria shared about when to choose Turbo Drive and when not:

Here is a response from Jorge Manrubia, but you should read all the ideas:

👉 Deepak Mahakale shared a code sample about using `t` in Rails views:

👉 Jan Grodowski shared a code sample about using perform_enqueued_jobs:

👉 Kirill Shevchenko shared about ways of setting gem dependency versions:

👉 Greg Navis shared a code sample from a PR they proposed for Support IN queries on array columns by gregnavis · Pull Request #51137 · rails/rails

👉 Nate Hopkins shared about reducing flaky system tests that uses Hotwire:

👉 Ruby Cademy shared a pool about Ruby IDEs:

👉 Matt Swanson asked about defining routes manually when coding with LLM assistance:

👉 Dave Thomas shared an interesting way to namespace methods in Ruby:

👉 Josef Strzibny asked about why choosing PostgreSQL vs MySQL:

Here are some answers:

👉 Xavier Noria shared a tip about pasting code to execute from clipboard:

Schlez added:

👉 Prabin Poudel shared about raising validation error when old and new password is the same when using Devise:

👉 Donn Felker asked about turning off logs in test for solid_queue:

Here are two options:

👉 Marco Roth shared about a new feature for Stimulus LSP:

👉 Adrien shared a code sample for a Stimulus controller for tabbed navigation:

👉 John Nunemaker shared a code sample about guarding against passing nil:

👉 Matheus Richard asked about a benchmark about using Thread vs Fibers:

Here are some replies explaining the difference:

👉 Thiago Araujo shared a code sample showing a lazy generator for Faker:

and they added another example (see the gitst at faker_excluding_generator.rb):

👉 Samuel Williams asked about background jobs:

Here are some replies:

👉 Brad Gessler shared about putting configuration in controllers instead of under config/initializers:

👉 Joel Drapper shared about building a new feature for Phlex (see the new JS library they are building in the Gems section of the newsletter):

👉 John Mc Dowall shared a code sample showing how to display different favicon for development:

👉 Jason Nochlin shared a code sample about serializing an array of ActiveModel::Model instance:

👉 Joe Masilotti asked about how to organize complex link_to options:

👉 Joel Drapper shared about Ruby not including CSV by default:

👉 John Nunemaker shared about tagging the use when using AppSignal:

👉 Mika Henriksson shared about ETL pipeline:

👉 Eric Berry shared about using Tailwind to show what breakpoint is currently in use:

👉 John Mc Dowall shared their config for Setup TailwindCSS LSP in LazyVim to provide completions in Ruby / Phlex components

❤️ Why Choose Ruby

❤️ Maple Ong shared about Ruby:

❤️ Emmanuel Hayford shared about the highest number of contributors to Ruby on Rails:

❤️  Rob Zolkos shared about supporting the community:

❤️ でし。 shared about using Rails for big apps:

❤️ Ebi You shared about understanding the philosophy of Rails:

❤️ Kirill Platonov shared about productivity and developer happiness:

❤️ Rob Bazinet shared about how Ruby on Rails does a lot of heavy lifting:

❤️ Typecraft shared about building apps with Ruby on Rails:

❤️ Dai shared about implementing Turbo Drive:

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

of JRuby 9.4.6.0

🧰 Philip Mueller announced a new version of Release 3.2.0 · Shopify/packwerk

🆕 🧰 Joel Drapper announced a new JS library morphlite: DOM morphing in < 100 LoC

🆕 🧰 Lucas Mendelowski announced a new gem otesty_cookie: TestyCookie provides a helper to access plain, permanent, signed and encrypted cookies in Rails controller / integration / request tests.

🆕 🧰 Brad Gessler published a new gem phlex-pdf - Phlex ergonomics for building PDFs

🧰 Marco Roth announced a new version of stimulus-parsed version 0.1.0 - Statically analyze Stimulus controllers in your project

🧰 Maciej Mensfeld announced a new version of Swarm / Multi Process - Karafka framework documentation

🧰 Gene M. Angelo, Jr. announced a new version of dsu | RubyGems.org | your community gem host

🧰 Samuel Williams announced a new repository async-job-rails-example

🧰 Joe Masilotti announced a new version of Release 7.0.2 · hotwired/turbo-ios

🧰  Stan Lo shared a new version of Release v0.4.3 · ruby/reline

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Jason Swett shared about creating the wrong abstraction:

🤝 Marc Köhlbrugge shared that building a product is like running a marathon with a backpack:

🤝 Jason Swett shared about OOP and inheritance:

🤝 David Colby shared about how to learn when reading a book:

🤝 Josh W. Comeau shared about internationalization:

🤝 Dima Fatko shared a tip about database performance:

🤝 John Nunemaker shared a screenshot about systems and bugs:

🤝 Kelsey Hightower shared an advice about learning the fundamentals:

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 08 - New Turbo Native releases, playing sounds with the Audio API, and more!

🗞 Emmanuel Hayford published a new edition of This Week in Rails about Enhanced assert_broadcasts, file support for Logger outputs and more!

🗞 Harrison Broadbent published a new edition about The RailsNotes Newsletter ISSUE #27

🗞 Bhumi published a new edition about When do we use Turbo 8 Page Refresh and Morphing?

🗞 Ruby LibHunt published a new edition about Awesome Ruby Newsletter - Issue 405, Feb 22, 2024

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition about Detecting radiation with Tenderlove

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 The Ruby on Rails Podcast published a new episode about Episode 508: Yjit With Maxime Chevalier Boisvert

🎧 Creston Jamison published a new podcast about Building a 2 Terabyte Database For My Postgres Course

🎧 Robby Russell published a new podcast about Chad Fowler - How Small Can We Make This Problem

🎧 Indie Rails published a new podcast about IndieRails | Ben Orenstein - The Developer-Turned-Founder

🎧 Andrei Bondarev published a new podcast about Langchain.rb (Ruby/AI) Office Hours

🎧 The Tuple Podcast published a new podcast about Josh Pigford - Founder of Maybe.co

🎧 RemoteRuby published a new podcast about Andy Croll - Railsconf - Free Chicken

🎧 Ruby Rogues published a new podcast about Ruby Dev Summit - Amanda Perino

📽️ 🎥 Videos

Screencasts

🎥 Stephen Margheim published a series of video about:

• Turbolist Rails build — part 5: expanding functionality

• Turbolist Rails build — part 6: Anchored popovers

• Turbolist Rails build — part 7: View transitions

• Turbolist Rails builld — part 8: Labels and Lists

• Turbolist Rails Build — Part 9: Users

• Turbolist Rails Build — Part 10: Assignees

• Turbolist Rails Build — Part 11: Due Dates

🎥 Jason Swett published a series of videos about:

• Trying to Get Bundler Caching Working - Live Coding on SaturnCI 

• Building a CLI Tool in Ruby - Live Coding on SaturnCI

• CLI Client Can Now Output an ASCII Table of Builds - Live Coding on SaturnCI

🎥 John Hawthorn published a new video about Improving Mastodon’s memory and performance

🎥 Equivalent published a new video about Digging into View Transitions with Turbo 8 and Rails

🎥 Sam Johnson published a new video CI/CD For Rails’s Kamal Deployments From Scratch pt. 3

🎥 Dean De Hart published a series of videos about:

• Testing out Simulcasting

• Working on a Linktree Clone part 1, part 2, part 3 

• Hosting a Godot Game on Rails

🎥 Roland Lopez published a new video about Learn caching performance basics in Ruby On Rails in 8 minutes

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

Bozhidar Batsov published a new article about Need for Speed: Using RuboCop with Prism

Harrison Broadbent published an article about A Decent Vs Code + Ruby On Rails Setup

Christian published a new article about Best Visual Studio Code extensions and settings for Ruby and Rails

Bridgetown published an article about  Road to Bridgetown 2.0, Part 1 (Stuck in Burnout Marsh)

Maciej Mensfeld published a new article about The Art of Forking: Unlocking Scalability in Ruby

Alkesh Ghorpade published an article about Exploring The F Faker Gem A Comprehensive Guide

James Brown published an article about one of my favorite ruby snippets

Josef Strzibny published an article about Business Class 1.6 With Direct Uploads, Antispam, Default Avatars, And Kamal CD 

Prasanth Chaduvula published an article about Rails 7.1 Introduces Active Record Regroup Method and about Rails 7.1 Allows Active Record/Relation#Explain To Accept Options

Dave Paola published an article about Why Are Non Dry Specs More Maintainable?

Rob Lacey published a new article about Ruby 3.3.0 and Resque

Kate McGinty published an article about Why Rails Upgrades Are So Important: What Happens If You’re Not On The Latest Rails Version

Bozhidar Batsov published a new article about Weird Ruby: Nil Conversions

Tom Enebo published a new article about JRuby Prism - A new parser for a new era

Deep Dives 🔍

Owais Khan published an article about Improving performance in development on a big Rails app

Noel Rappin published an article about  Better Know A Ruby Thing #4: Keyword Arguments

Akshay Khot published an article about How To Generate Random Numbers In Ruby

How-TOs 📝

Rafael Montas published an article about Deploy a Rails app to a Docker Swarm cluster on Hetzner

Rob Zolkos published an article about (How I) Deploy Solid Queue With Capistrano

Miles published a new article about Deploying with Kamal

Justin Talbott published an article about PostgreSQL Native List Partitioning In Rails

Kyrylo Silin published an article about Using Overmind With Foreman As A Fallback For Rails 7.1+ Apps

Ayush published an article about  Hotwire Modals in Ruby on Rails with Stimulus and Turbo Frames

Sven Schwyn published an article about Shrink UUIDs With PostgreSQL or Ruby

Akshay Khot published an article about Speed Up Your Tests Using VCR Gem In Ruby and about Playing Sounds In Rails With The Audio Api → “

Jeremy Friesen published an article about Making Hyrax Factories Available To Hyku And Other Implementations

David Boureau published an article about Rails 7 Pagination With Kaminari Tutorial

Josh Smith published an article about Configuring IRB Autocomplete

Prabin Poudel published an article about Devise Raise Validations Error When New And Old Passwords Are Same

Julian Rubisch published an article about Configuring Incoming Webhook Queues In Bullet Train

JT Dev published a new article about Enum validation in Ruby on Rails 7.1

Stjepan Hadjić published an article about Publish/Subscribe With Sidekiq

Rails Designer published an article about How To Add Hotkeys To Your Rails App With Stimulus and about Favicons In Rails Apps: The 2024 Way

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Taylor Blau published an article about Highlights from Git 2.44