Short Ruby News - Edition #94

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🚀 Launches and discounts & 📅 Events

👉 All about Code and Ruby: 💻 Code, 📐Code Design,💡Around, ❤️ Why Choose Ruby

🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates: 🆕 New, 🧰 Updates and 👀 Keep an eye on 

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

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

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🚀 Launches and discounts

🚀 David Heinemeier Hansson shared the launch of OMAKUB. Omakub turns a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully configured web development system. You can see the release video on the main website homepage.

If you are interested in contributing to Omakub:

🚀 Vincent Ritter announced the launch of a new product: An introduction to Sublime Feed // Vincent Ritter

If you are interested in this feed, Vincent is inviting you to write to him at [email protected] to get a registration link.

💸 Sandi Metz shared 99 Bottles — Sandi Metz  will be 40% off till 13th June

💸 Pragmatic Programmers shared PragProg Spring Sale Final Week is underway

💸 Leanpub shared The Rails 7 Way discount

📅 Events

📅 Ruby Conf announced RubyConf 2024: CFP is open, looking for talks in the following areas: Performance and Scale, Ruby on the Web, Ruby in AI, Data Science and Machine Learning, Weird Ruby, Your Great Idea!

📅 Euruko released two new types of tickets for EuRuKo2024

📅 Ryan Bigg shared Ruby Retreat 2024

📅 African Ruby Community shared Matz will be the Keynote Speaker at RubyConf Africa

👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Nony Dutton shared benchmarks from enabling YJIT at Zendesk in production:

💻 Code Samples

👉 Mika Henriksson shared about considering apply_to_nil before using a before_validation to normalize a column

👉 Jorge Manrubia shared a refactoring example extracting functionality from a concern to an object that is then references from the concern:

👉 Kasper Timm Hansen shared a code sample showing how to write concerns without extend/include/class_methods:

👉 Stephen Margheim shared how a series of code samples about building UI components:

Stephen shared a series of code samples about building UI components:

• Stimulus multiple file input

• Hill Charts

• Tailwind inline-edit text

• Tailwind + Retool Multiselect Listbox

• Stimulus Combobox examples

• avatar stimulus controller (w/ inheritance & initials)

👉 Nate Hopkins shared how he used Rails encrypted variables while allowing ENV variable overrides (see it used in a repo here):

👉 Lucian Ghinda shared a gem called rbs-inline that’s playing with putting RBS inline in the source code

👉 Chris Oliver shared how we can use else clauses in blocks:

👉 Mezbah Alam was curious if ActiveRecord is moving towards a connection per query model instead of query per request:

Samuel Williams added that ActiveRecord is now moving towards that model.

Janko Marohnić 💙💛 added that this is how connection pooling is done in Sequel

👉 Chris Oliver shared how he approaches building API clients

👉 In this week’s let’s learn with Collin, he shared how a terminal tip might come in handy

👉 Yaroslav Shmarov flagged what to keep in mind when installing ViewComponent

👉 John Mc Dowall shared a Ruby pattern that leverages Ruby’s new pattern-matching abilities

Lucian added:

👉 Ruby Cademy shared how handy Date#readable_inspect is

👉 Joel Moss shared how two similar-looking statements result in two wildly different results. The replies elaborate on why that’s the case.

👉 Ruby On Rails shared about the addition of exclude? in ActionController::Parameters:

👉 Ruby Cademy shared how easy it is to setup Content Security Policy HTTP Headers in Rails

👉 Prabin Poudel shared a way to get Days of the week without adding them as constants

👉 Joël Quenneville shared how Enumerators are sprinkled all over Ruby

👉 Moses Gathuku shared a way to stub current_user any controller helper not available in ActionView

👉 Andrew Atkinson shared a tip about how to revise local migrations after running them:

👉 Nate Berkopec shared a code sample about working with cache in Rails controllers:

Xavier Noria added:

👉 Lucian Ghinda shared a thread about using the endless method:

👉 Ruby Cademy shared a tip about using the future? predicate in Rails:

👉 Greg Navis shared a code sample playing with defining abstract syntax in Ruby:

👉 Daveyon Mayne shared a code sample about a job to check when trial ends:

📐 Thinking about Code Design

📐 Ufuk Kayserilioglu shared how they went about implementing Ruby LSP

📐 Irina Nazarova shared a thread on why and how Rails teams should consider React/Vue/Svelte should the need arise:

📐 Joel Drapper shared a thread on why owing your authentication end to end is the herculean task as it seems. He also goes on elaborate on how he builds his auth and why

👉 Vladimir Dementyev shared they migrated to SolidQueue:

Rosa answered in reply a question about dynamic cron-style jobs:

💡 Around code (news, findings, books, and more - all about Ruby)

💡 Andrew Atkinson shared that their repo about using Rails and PostgreSQL has now 100 stars. Visit the repo at andyatkinson/rideshare: Rails app for book 📚 "High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails"

❤️ Why Choose Ruby

❤️ Andy Croll shared how he enjoys Ruby’s ability to be expressive

❤️ Enrique Benitez shared why he finds Ruby a joy to work with.

❤️ Andrei Maxim shared how we got started with Ruby

❤️ Igor Alexandrov shared how he continues to use Ruby and how we felt when he felt when used it for the first time.

❤️ Björn Rochel shared what Rails excels at and why he switched over.

❤️ Andrei Bondarev shared a thread on the most impactful non-web app projects built in Ruby

❤️ Josh Pigford shared why he switched back to Rails

❤️ Paul Earnden shared about their experience with building with Rails:

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Julian Rubisch announced a new gem called Sitepress Pagefind Integration

You can also find a gist with the code he used to integrate Pagefind.

🆕 Marc Köhlbrugge announced a new version of marckohlbrugge/stripe-cancellation-reasons

🧰 Updates

🚀 Ruby On Rails shared Rails Versions 6.1.7.8, 7.0.8.4, and 7.1.3.4 have been released!

🧰 Avo announced a new version of Rails 8 support by peterberkenbosch · Pull Request #2789 · avo-hq/avo

🧰 Andrea Fomera announced a new version of Welcome to RicherText.js

🧰 Donal McBreen announced Release v1.6.0 · basecamp/kamal

🧰 Samuel Williams shared about the performance improvements in IO::Event

🧰 Kevin Newton announced a new version of Release v0.30.0 · ruby/prism

🧰 Soutaro Matsumoto announced a new version of ruby/rbs - Read the release notes or the changelog

🧰 Andy Maleh announced the v1.0.0 of puts_debugger

🧰 Kasper Timm Hansen announced a new version of Release v0.2.0 · kaspth/action_controller-stashed_redirects

👀 Keep an eye on

👀 Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert merged a PR to Ruby master about YJIT: implement cache for recently encoded/decoded contexts

👀 Kevin Newton submitted a new feature request to Ruby about Switch default parser to Prism

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Nate Berkopec shared a fabulous thread on what differentiates Engineering from the Software “craft”

🤝 Stefan Judis shared a code sample about using The CSS attribute selector has a case-insensitive mode

🤝 Peter Solnica shared about digesting criticism without getting defensive:

🤝 Scott Watermasysk shared 

🤝 Matt Turck shared about SaaS and AI:

🤝 Jason Fried shared a video doing a live review of Workbook (or Writebook):

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Wojtek published a new edition of This Week in Rails about Global strict loading mode setting, route draw deferring and more

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 23 - New Hotwire Browser Extension, Concurrent Updates with Stimulus, and more!

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition about Ruby Weekly Issue 706: June 6, 2024

🗞 Any Cable published a new edition about Any Cables Monthly #20

🗞 Ruby LibHunt published a new edition of Awesome Ruby Newsletter

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 Jason Swett published a new podcast about 222 - Into the Software Industry Straight out of High School with Verda Korzeniewski - The Code with Jason Podcast

🎧 Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It published a new podcast about Josh Wood

🎧 Ruby For All published a new podcast about RailsConf 2024 Crossover — Ruby Podcasters Live in Detroit | Ruby for All | Episode 68

🎧Joshua Wood published a new episode about Scaling Judoscale with Adam McCrea 

🎧 RemoteRuby published a new podcast about Railsconf and Tech Debt

🎧 Ruby Rogues published a new podcast about Ruby Reactivity: Navigating Front-end Solutions and Innovations - RUBY 638 - Ruby Rogues - Top End Devs

📽️ 🎥 Videos

Screencasts

🎥 Balkan Ruby shared videos of Balkan Ruby 2024 are LIVE

🎥 Drifting Ruby published a new video about Episode 459 - Hotwire Combobox | Drifting Ruby

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published a new video about Tailwind on Rails #170 Maintainable Buttons CSS

🎥 Avdi Grimm published a new video about Hash#fetch as an Assertion in Ruby

🎥 Dean De Hart published a new video about Telegram Open AI Bot in Ruby on Rails 7

🎥 Jason Swett published a new video about Figuring Out What to Build - Mentorship Session with Jono Stiansen

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

✍️ Ruby Central announced the CFP for RubyConf 2024 is open Performance, AI, Weird Ruby and Matz: The RubyConf 2024 CFP is Open

✍️ Cj Avilla published a new article about A Year of Lessons: Key Principles and Takeaways for a Rails Apps in 2024

✍️ Joël Quenneville published a new article about 3 Mental Models For Ruby Enumerators

✍️ Cody Norman published a new article about The Road To Rails Conf 2024

✍️ Jake Zimmerman published a new article about Old vs new case statement in Ruby and about A trick for invariant generics in Sorbet

✍️Anes Hodza published an article about Ruby function design and other stuff I like ranting about

✍️ Afaq Shahid Khan published a new article about Supercharging Background Processing with Active Job in Rails

✍️ Lucian Ghinda published a new article about Endless method - a quick intro

🕵️ Deep-Dive

🕵️ JP Camara shared Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1

🕵️ Matheus Richard published a new article about Async Ruby on Rails

How-TOs 📝

📝 Jeffery Morhous published a new article about How to build a Rails API with rate limiting

📝 Anna Gavrilova published a new article about Ruby on Rails DaisyUI Setup. The Most Elegant Way. Bonus: icons

📝 Thomas Riboulet published a new article about Creating Forms in Ruby on Rails with Simple Form and about How to Use Tailwind CSS for Your Ruby On Rails Project

📝 Igor Alexandrov published a new article about Validate belongs_to association in Rails

📝 RailsDesigner published a new article about Update a Progress Bar using Turbo Streams (using Custom Actions)

📝 Andy Croll published a new article about Compress Your Images 

Related

Garrett Dimon published an article about Fine-tuning Text Inputs

Kirill Platonov published a new article about Incremental development

Andrei Maxim published a new article about Learn the Web Fundamentals

Radoslav Stankov published a new article about Tips for Using Less JavaScript