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👉 Nate Berkopec shared a code sample showing Ruby code that causes memory growth over time:

👉Mudge shared a code sample showing how to duplicate active storage blobs from one record to another:

👉Prabin Poudel shared a benchmark about Rails object instantiation being 70 faster than OpenStruct

Among the replies, Benoit Daloze shared a pull request about improving performance of OpenStruct.

There are also good resources shared in that thread:

• Alternatives for Ruby’s OpenStruct

• ActiveSupport::OrderedOptions

• Ruby global method cache invalidation impact on a single and multithreaded applications

Lucian Ghinda (that’s me) added the following:

👉 Andrea Rocca continues the series about Hotwire. Here is a screenshot from only one of the many tips shared this week:

• Hotwire tip 16/30 JS-less tabbed navigation (source)

• Hotwire tip 17/30 Twitter-style preview/undo/send tweet (source)

• Hotwire tip 18/30 Markdown editor with live preview (source)

• Hotwire tip 19/30 Pulse loading state (source)

• Hotwire tip 20/30 Dynamic select fields (source)

• Hotwire tip 21/30 Searchable dropdown (source)

• Hotwire tip 22/30 Kanban board (source)

👉Jeremy Smith asked about what Rails blog post has been the most influential:

There were 3 resources shared:

• 7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models (2012)

• Enough with the service objects already (2017)

• Skinny Controller, Fat Model (2006)

• Rails Hosting: Easy as Pie (2008)

👉Lewis Youl shared a code sample showing what does ActiveModel::Name does

👉Jeremy Smith shared two tips about refactoring Rails views:

👉The Rubber Duck Dev Show announced they are doing a Stream Tech Chat on their Rubber Duck Dev Show Discord:

👉Josias Schneider shared how the rake db:migrate works:

👉Josh Cheek shared a gist showing A program that is both a palindrome and a quine, made with hearts for Joe

👉Kevin Newton shared a code sample showing how pattern matching is used at ruby/assembler.rb at master

👉Dev shared a thread with Ruby books recommendations:

Here are the recommendations but you should read the thread as he also describes why he recommends each book:

• Polished Ruby Programming

• Everyday Rails Testing with RSpec

• Clean Ruby

• Deployment from Scratch 

• 99 Bottles of OOP

👉Nate Berkopec shared that safe_constantize can sometimes appear as a bottleneck when used a lot:

Jean Boussier replied with a benchmark of const-get-bench.rb

The results look like this:

👉Carla Urrea Stabile asked a question about what improvements people look forward in the next Ruby versions:

Here are some of the replies:

• Easy initialize ivars

• Built-in memoization

• PHP-like construction promotion feature

• Types

• Better support for parallelism and distributed computing for fiber scheduler

• default frozen literals

• Better types tooling

• Performance

👉Nate Berkopec shared about how queueing Puma works (read the comment in the PR)

👉Vladimir Dementyev shared a code sample showing how they integrated Hanami with Phlex:

👉Moncef Belyamani shared commands to run when webpacker takes too much time to compile:

David Teren transformed that into a task:

👉Shiva shared a thread about string manipulation in Rails. Here is one of the code samples they shared:

👉 Stanislav (Stas) Katkov shared a preview of this new tool PoshTUI (API documentation browser in console for ruby developers)

👉Lucian Ghinda shared in the context of the discussion about Ruby safe navigation operator vs Rails try:

👉Jess Brown shared a thread about how to work with db schema changes:

👉Moncef Belyamani shared a code sample showing how expressive is Ruby:

👉Kevin Newton shared an update on the YARD:

👉Kirill Shevchenko shared a code sample about the iterator pattern:

👉 Samuel Williams shared a code sample about a deadlock bug in Async:

👉Thomas Riboulet shared a thread about Ruby and Docker:

👉Greg Navis shared about how to use as_json to control the keys:

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🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🧰 Joel Drapper announced they released Phlex versions 1.5.0, 1.6.0 and 1.6.1. Read the release notes

🧰 Jared White announced they ported Preact Signals to Ruby. Checkout the signalize gem

🧰Joel Drapper shared a PR where someone describes how they plan to use Phlex to render PHP: A possible use-case for unsafe_raw and unescaped attributes · joeldrapper/phlex · Discussion #519

🧰 Ben Sheldon shared a gem called derailed_benchmarks that helps benchmark Rails or Ruby apps.

🧰 Justin Searls announced that the standardrb is now supported by lsp-zero plugin for Neovim. Read the pull request

🧰Kasper Timm Hansen announced a new gem called showcase-rails that lets you build previews for your partials, components, view helpers, Stimulus controllers, and more:

🧰 Rubocop released a new version 1.48 adding two new cops: Style/DirEmpty and Style/FileEmpty. Read the full changelog for 1.48 here

🧰 Xavier Noria announced that Rails 7.1 will add Improve support for custom namespaces

🧰 Takashi Kokubun released a new JIT for Ruby RJIT by k0kubun · Pull Request #7448 · ruby/ruby

You can also read the ticket on Ruby tracker: feature 19420 and maybe you want to read the article Takashi published RJIT: A Pure-Ruby JIT for Ruby

🧰 Joel Drapper announced that turbo-rails has now support for rendering Phlex and ViewComponents Read the pull request here

🧰 Stan Lo announced that irb can now be independently updated as the following PR was merged Make irb a railties dependency

🧰 Vladimir Dementyev shared a PR about rspec-mocks not working well with Rails 7.1 breaks receive().with. There is already a fix merged to rspec-mocks

🧰 Konstantin Gredeskoul announced they created a PR for making puma-daemon to work with Puma v5+ Read the PR here

🧰 Mari Imaizumi announced the release of IRB v1.6.3 Read the changelog

🧰 Vinicius Stock announced the release of vscode-ruby-lsp v0.2.0 Read the changelog

🧰Joe Masilotti announced the release of TurboNavigator: A drop-in class for Turbo Native apps to handle common navigation flows.

🧰DHH announced the release of mrsk v0.9.0 Read the release notes

🧰 Andrew Culver shared a PR that shows how to integrate Nice Partials into bullet train Update callers to Nice Partials method accessors

🧰 Nate Hopkins announced a new gem composite_cache_store a composite cache store comprised of 2 ActiveSupport: :Store instances

🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝Eric Berry shared a configuration to change the Discord window

🤝Emma Bostian asked an excellent question about the mood we are in now.

🤝Drew Bragg shared a funny take about hard things in computer science:

🤝 Shiva shared a thread about working with Redis. Here is one of the posts:

You should also read the second thread about Redis.

🤝 Wes Bos shared a tip about configuring ngrok-like behavior via Cloudflare:

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🗞 Newsletters

🗞 Greg Molnar published a new edition of This Week in Rails: Improve custom namespace autoloading, Object#with and more!

🗞️ Ruby Weekly published a new edition: RubyGems' answer to npx

🗞 Ruby Radar published a new edition Ruby Radar #93 - IRB Making Waves

🗞️ Ruby LibHunt published a new edition of the Awesome Ruby Newsletter

Podcasts

🎧 Joel Drapper published a new episode of Rooftop Ruby 4: Green Dots and Boogie

🎧 Code And The Coding Coders Who Code It published a new episode with Andrew Mason

🎧 Jeremy Smith published a new episode IndieRails | Colin Keeley - How/Why to buy or sell a business

🎧 The Ruby On Rails Podcast published a new episode about Episode 460: The State of Rails Hiring in 2023 (Brittany + Brian)

🎧Content For :Devs published a new episode #007 - Behind the scenes of GoRails screencasts with Collin Jilbert - content_for :devs

🎧Maintainable Software Podcast published a new episode about Henrik Warne - There is No Software Maintenance

🎧Jason Swett published a new episode about 175 - Preventing Software Defects with Vitor Oliveira - The Code with Jason Podcast

🎧 Ruby For All published a new episode about Development Gems | Ruby for All | Episode 33

🎧 Remote Ruby published a new episode about Ruby Language Server with Vinicius Stock | Remote Ruby | Episode 221

Videos

Talks

📽️ Jason Swett published a new episode about Organizing Rails code with Jorge Manrubia of 37signals

📽️ Creston Jamison published a new episode about Failing In Public | Rubber Duck Dev Show 76

📽️ Joe Masilotti published a live video about Launching TurboNavigationController

📽️ Prabin Poudel shared their video about Maintaining Code Standards

📽️ The Rubber Duck Dev Show published a new episode about Monetizing Dev Content

📽️ Jason Swett published a new episode about What causes flaky tests (2023-03-09 Code with Jason Meetup session)

Screencasts

🎥 Justin Searls published the third episode of their series called Searls after Dark where he build an AI chat app with Ruby on Rails #3 - Going end-to-end

🎥 Ruby Weekly shared a new video from WebCrunch showing how to implement Ruby on Rails Drag and Drop Uploads with Active Storage, Stimulus.js

🎥 Dave Kimura published a new episode about MRSK in Depth | Drifting Ruby

🎥 Hanami Mastery published a new episode about Best way to work with Front Matter in Ruby!

🎥 Phil Smy published a new episode about Rails 7: Tabulator & Stimulus - Ruby on Rails Tutorial

🎥 Pete Hawkins published a new episode about Simplify your VIEW COMPONENTS with dry-initializer

🎥 The Rubber Duck Dev Show published a new episode doing Crash of Code The Big 5-0 Birthday Bash / Clash of Code - Coding with Chris

🎥 Deanin published a series of videos:

• Nested Forms with the Cocoon Gem | Ruby On Rails 7 Tutorial

• Stimulus Nested Forms | Ruby on Rails 7 Tutorial

• Stimulus Popovers For Devise Users With Avatars | Ruby On Rails 7 Tutorial

🎥 Pete Hawkins shared a short video on Twitter about Free custom error page templates for your Rails app (he also shared the code here)

🎥 Yaroslav Shmarov published new episodes:

•  Ruby on Rails #116 Custom error pages (404 Not found and 500 Internal server error)

• CertificateOwl day2 - building a proof-of-concept (POC) app with Ruby on Rails

Articles

What’s new

• Paweł świątkowski published a new article about Underrated pattern of an inline event dispatcher

• Cameron Youngblood published a new article about Intro | Junior Rails Review

How-Tos

• Sam Ruby published an article explaining how to run systems tests on CI/CD

• Lucas Barret published a new article about Rails Generator for GraphQL queries

• Equivalent published a new article about Rails's .try vs Ruby's &. (a.k.a safe navigation)

• Takashi Kokubun published a new article about RJIT: A Pure-Ruby JIT for Ruby

Deep Dives

• William Neal shared an older article (2022) about Minitest vs. RSpec in Rails

• Nate Berkopec shared an older article (2020) written by Konstantin Gredeskoul about Test your Understanding of Ruby Concurrency

• Ruby Lib Hunt shared an article about Ruby 3.2's WASI Integration: A Closer Look

Related

• Test Double published an article about How we support Double Agents with onboarding buddies

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