Short Ruby News - Edition #96

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🚀 Launches & 📅 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)

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📅 Events

📅 This week's meetups and conferences (source):

• 25 June | USA → ChicagoRuby - Madison+ Ruby + Chicago @ Chime 

• 25 June | Online → WNB.rb

• 26 June | Ireland → Ruby On Skis? Let's Go Alpine & Get Better Service!

• 26 June | USA → AustinRB/Austin on Rails - Ruby Social (Evening)

• 27 June | Philippine → Philippine Ruby Users Group - Heading Hybrid

• 28 June | UK → Brighton Ruby 2024

📅 Wnb.Rb shared they are raising money top support 7 women to attend RubyConf Africa. You can donate at Stripe Checkout

📅 Friendly.Rb shared Friendly.rb - Your friendy European Ruby conference, announced the CFP will close early on 1st July and announced a new speaker Julian Cheal:

📅 Ruby Central shared KentBeck as a keynote speaker at RubyConf and tickets will go on sale on June 26:

📅 Madison+ Ruby announced Saron Yitbarek as a speaker Speakers | Madison Ruby

📅 Ruby Conf shared RubyConf 2024 CFP Coaching Sessions Registration

📅 Kj Tsanaktsidis shared Ruby Hack Night, July 4:

📅 Josias Schneider | The Outsider Dev shared that Ruby Floripa is back on July 27th. Do send in your talks.

👉 All about Code and Ruby

💻 Code Samples

💻 Sam Saffron shared how the latest ruby memory profiler works for trivial profiling.

💻 Greg Molnar shared that Rails is getting a new notification event, which is triggered when a transaction starts.

💻 Samuel Williams shared a thread on how to get a Hello World endpoint up and running in 6 lines with HTTP/2 support and deploying it.

💻 Prabin Poudel shared a gist demonstrating how to convert any DateTime object to any timezone while still keeping the same date and time.

💻 Ronin Rb shared  what it looks like to write a XSS test using ronin-rb/ronin-exploits: A Ruby micro-framework for writing and running exploits

💻 Lucian Ghinda shared a detailed thread on Twitter on how to use endless blocks to name a transaction. Here is one of the posts:

💻 Joel Drapper shared a code sample showing how to implement a rounded link with Phlex:

💻 Josh Pigford shared two code samples of how their code was refactored by ChatGPT:

💻 Max Vel Dink shared a code sample about Sorbet T::Enum:

💻 Joel Drapper shared a friendly reminder about using frozen string literal:

💻 David Alejandro shared a tip about disabling Ahoy on Turbo prefetch-on-hover:

He added about missing clicks:

💻 Matt Swanson shared a code sample about removing failed custom domains:

💻 Avdi Grimm asked about Ruby oddities:

Here are some replies:

💻 Allancoder shared a code sample about callback hell in Rails:

💻 Michael Chaney shared a long post about Unicode and UTF-8. Here is just a part of it, but you should read it all:

💻 Study Every Day shared a code sample about using a comparison validator:

💻 蒼時弦也 shared a code sample about Event Storming:

💻 Ruby Cademy shared about how to make Rails credentials diffs be displayed in git diff:

They also shared a tip about:

📐 Thinking about Code Design

📐 Rafael áquila asked about handling RecordNotUnique exception:

Greg Navis replied with an article they wrote about this Build the Framework You Need and a code sample:

📐 Samuel Williams shared Rails Integration

📐 Josh Pigford asked about finding a cheaper way to categorize tools:

This seems to have been solved the following way:

📐 Stephen Margheim shared a thread explaining how they implemented AcidicJobs → acidic_job: Idempotent operations for Rails apps, built for ActiveJob or Sidekiq. Here are some parts of the thread:

📐 Jason Swett asked about improving performance-sensitive areas of an app:

Here are some replies:

📐 Gabriel Mazetto shared what the most prominent code smell in a Ruby project.

📐 Michael Chaney shared a detailed post on how “normalizes” works in Rails 7

📐 Ruby Cademy shared how the behaviour of transaction blocks has changed in Rails 7

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

💡Marc asked about who uses Ruby on Rails for their side-projects:

Here are some projects shared:

• Tube & Chill

• Clip Flow

• PDF Editify

• Hot Suto

• Olympia

💡 Benjamín Silva H. shared a list of resources for understanding good practices or design patterns in Rails:

❤️ Why Choose Ruby

❤️ Josh Pigford shared how he wrote his web scraper in Ruby

❤️ Paul Earnden shared how they are building with Rails:

❤️ Gaurav shared about why Rails is great at building something fast:

❤️ Andrew Brown shared about why they like Rails:

❤️ Mateusz Palak published a new article about Choosing Ruby: What made me choose Ruby as my primary programming language.

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

🆕 New Gems and Repos

🆕 Stanislav (Stas) Katkov announced a new gem munster - webhooks processing engine for rails applications (read a good introduction to it here):

🆕 Bozhidar Batsov announced the open-sourcing of their distributed RSpec runner - rspec-distrib

🆕 Justin Searls announed a new gem feed2thread: Reads your site's feed and publishes each entry to Threads (as feed2toot is to Mastodon, so feed2thread is to threads)

🆕 Pointless One announced a new gem gort: robots.txt parser and evaluator

🆕 Postmodern announced a new gem ruby-masscan - A Ruby interface to masscan, an Internet-scale port scanner

🆕 Tim Standen shared a new repo where they build A simple Go game made in ruby It looks like this (image shared by AndyObtiva):

🆕 Dmitry Golovin published a new gem called passive_columns - ActiveRecord module that allows you to skip selecting specific columns by default and retrieve only on-demand

🧰 Updates

🧰 Avo announced a new version of Release Release v3.9.2 · avo-hq/avo

🧰 Janko Marohnić announced a new version of Release v4.13.0 · minimagick/minimagick

🧰 Jeremy Evans announced a new version of Forme 2.6.0 Released · jeremyevans forme · Discussion #124

🧰 Stephen announced a new version of stevegeek/ai_refactor: AI Refactor is an experimental tool to see how AI can be applied to bulk refactor code.

🧰 Nick Schwaderer announced a new version of schwad_performance_logger - Benchmarking your code, made simple.

👀 Keep an eye on

👀 Eileen Uchitelle submitted a PR to Ruby about:

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝 Adrian Marin asked about icons:

Here are some answers:

• Lucide

• Flowbite

• Tablericons

• Iconify Design

• Phosphor Icons

• Font Awesome

• Blade Icons

• Feather

• SVG Repo

• Boxicons

👉 Deepak Mahakale shared a code sample about running long-running tasks on Heroku:

🤝 Michael Buckbee shared why Mac users should ensure .DS_Store files are listed in your .gitignore.

🤝 Pascal Laliberté shared an advice for freelancers:

More content: 📚 🗞 🎧 🎥 ✍🏾

🗞 Newsletters

🗞 This Week in Rails published a new edition about New database sharding methods, improved Active Record Migration Docs, caching improvements for ActiveStorage and more!

🗞 Awesome Ruby published a new edition about Awesome Ruby Newsletter - Issue 422, Jun 20, 2024

🗞 Ruby Weekly published a new edition about Ruby's method methodology

🗞 Ruby Central published a new edition June 2024 Newsletter

🗞 Hotwire Weekly published a new edition about Week 25 - Inertia.js in Rails, Stimulus in the Shadow DOM?, and more!

🗞 Allison Pike published a new edition of Once a Maintainer: Mike McQuaid

🎧 Podcasts

🎧 The Rails Changelog published a new episode about 023: Solid Queue Internals with Rosa Gutierrez | The Rails Changelog | Episode 23

🎧 Ruby Rogues published a new podcast about Leveraging OpenAPI: Creating Effective RESTful API Specifications and Documentation

🎧 The Bike Shed published a new podcast about The Bike Shed: 429: Transforming Experience Into Growth

🎧 Joshua Wood published a new podcast about Dogfooding, Developers, and Discord! | FounderQuest | Episode 14

🎧 Pabs published a new podcast about On Solo-preneurship

🎧 Remote Ruby published a new episode about Auditing in Rails & Andrew's Cursed Idea

📽️ 🎥 Videos

Screencasts

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published a new video about Rails #174 i18n. Test translations, refactor, and launch into

🎥 Julian Rubisch published a new video about Power Pack for Bullet Train - Table Filtering

🎥 Jason Swett published a new video about Coming up with Test Scenarios - Mentorship Session with Yain Porter and Fixing Image Caching - Live Coding on SaturnCI

🎥 Ruby Rogues published a new video about Ruby and Rails and AI with Obie Fernandez

🎥Dimiter Petrov shared Dimiter Petrov – 20 years and going: making it as a consultancy

🎥 Cody Norman published a new video about Generating Custom QR Code with Ruby on Rails

🎥 Joel Drapper published a new video which gives a quick introduction to Zed for Ruby Developers

🎥 Drifting Ruby published a new video about Episode 462 - From Heroku to Kamal | Drifting Ruby

✍🏾 Articles

What’s new 🆕

🆕 Mateusz Palak published a new article about Choosing Ruby: What made me choose Ruby as my primary programming language.

🆕 Siddharth Shringi published a new article about Ruby 3.4 Makes “it” As Default Block Parameter

🆕 Max Chernyak published an article about Dynamic Module Snippet for Ruby

🆕 Svyatoslav Kryukov published an article about Inertia.js in Rails: a new era of effortless integration

🆕 Hexdevs published a new article about 4 Strategies To Remove Dead Code from your Ruby App

🆕 Samuel Williams published a new article about How WebSocket Extensions are negotiated

🆕 Josef Strzibny published a new article about Server provisioning options for Kamal

🆕 Augusts Bautra published a new article about TIL: an_array_starting_with matcher

🕵️ Deep-Dive

🕵️ RoRvsWild published a new article about Measuring Ruby Garbage Collector - RorVsWild

🕵️ Mathieu Eustachy published an article about In depth Ruby memory optimisation: `true`, `false` and `nil`

🕵️ Noel Rappin published a new article about  Better Know A Ruby Thing: On The Use of Private Methods

🕵️ Jared Norman published a new article about System tests haven’t failed

🕵️ Reza Shadman published a new article about I’m switching from Laravel to Rails

How-TOs 📝

📝 Andres Chacon published an article about Creating a REST API with Ruby on Rails. Chapter 2: Endpoints and Serialization

📝 Cody Norman published a new article about Create a QR Code with a Logo

📝 Lorry Driveloper published a new article about Solving the Challenge of Connecting Stimulus Controllers Inside Shadow DOM

📝 Dmitry Daw published a new article about How to use rbtrace from outside of docker container

📝 Rich Steinmetz published a new article about Open-sourcing Sloth Finder to search Ruby Weekly and side projects warnings

📝 Mohit Sindhwani published a new article about  Rails: Load multiple records by ID (find v where)

📝 Lucian Ghinda published an article about Transactions blocks with endless methods

📝 Rails Designer published an article about How to Create an Undo Action with Rails

📝 Kecia karoline published an article about CodeTips#9: Readable .html.erb files on VSCode

Related

✍️ Mohit Sindhwani published a new article about Hosting HTML, JS and CSS pages simply with GitHub Pages

✍️ Jet Thoughts published a new article about nicanorflavier/spf-dkim-dmarc-simplified: Email security. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and how do they work?