💻 Short Ruby News - The Code Edition #38

Briefly about everything happening in Ruby world - week 15 of 2023

April 17, 2023

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👐 Our Community

👐 Postmodern shared about why Ruby seems to be a good language for writing security tools:

👐 Jason Swett announced that Code with Jason Meetups are back now with also European timezones Join here at codewithjason.com/meetup

👐 Unusual-Hat-1617 asked about how to start with DragonRuby

Here is one of the top answers:

👐 ashawareb asked about the job market:

The replies are split between people receiving many offers and people receiving less.

👐 igor_kasyanchuk shared a collection of Ruby gems curated at https://opensource-heroes.com/awesome/ruby

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👉 All about Code and Ruby

👉 Avo announced they are launching Avo v3 beta signup

You can checkout the features that might be part of Avo 3 by reading the Roadmap

👉 Irving Reid shared a code sample about how to make it work:

Sharon Rosner suggested to use binding.local_variable_get and here is how the code might look like:

👉 Ludovic De Luna asked about what will come in Ruby 3.3

Here are some of the replies to this question:

👉 Dave Copeland shared they are working on a new short book and that triggered a discussion about OOP:

Here are some replies from that discussion:

👉Brandon Weave shared a code sample showing how to configure Capybara for tests: see the gist

👉Naofumi Kagam shared about how to think about SRP in context of Ruby mixins (you can also read this conversation on StackExchange → Relationship between inheritance and single responsibility principle)

👉Dilrajio asked about authorization checks with GraphQL:

And proposed a solution about this:

👉 Nate Berkopec asked about features or improvements for rack-mini-profiler

And among the many replies:

👉Simon Chiu shared a tip for precompiling assets without RAILS_MASTER_KEY:

👉Pratik T shared a thread about how they learned Hotwire:

Here are some recommended resources from the thread:

👉 Jess Brown shared a code sample showing how to compare pairs:

👉Martin Spickermann shared a code sample showing how to make methods from mixins available both as class and instance methods:

👉Nate Berkopec shared about the performance of ActiveRecord:

👉Matt Swanson shared a code sample showing a technique to use transaction for creating temporary data for mailer previews:

He mentions that the solution was inspired by a StackOverflow question

👉Moses Gathuku shared a tip about how to use non-alphanumeric chars for percent strings:

👉 Matt Swanson shared a real code sample showing a workflow implemented in a controller:

👉 Greg Navis shared a thread about Ruby support for grepping through a collection of items, based on the === method

👉Brad Gessler shared a code sample showing how Rails can render a component with Phlex:

👉Alexandre Ruban shared thread explaining how security works when broadcasting pieces of HTML with turbo-rails:

👉 u/dc366 asked about how does the production environment looks like:

The replies include solutions from VPS, Heroku, Capistrano to AWS and GCP solutions.

👉 honeyryderchuck shared their perspective about types in Ruby in a comment on /r/ruby:

The discussion on /r/ruby is big and touches multiple angles and if you are interested you should read the discussion on the same topic but on /r/programming

🧰 Gems, Libraries, and Updates

🧰 Brooke Kuhlmann announced a new release of v.0.8.0 of Cogger (a customizable logger)

🧰 Karl Oscar Weber shared an update about camping (you can read more about Karl’s plans for camping here):

🧰 Bozhidar Batso announced that Rubocop passed over 313 million downloads and announced the Release RuboCop 1.50 · rubocop/rubocop

🧰 Vinicius Stock announced a new release of ruby-lsp v.0.4.4 Read the release notes

🧰 Lázaro Nixon announced they added WebAuthn to authentication-zero gem. Read the commit

🧰 Jeremy Evans announced a new release v.3.67.0 of roda, read the release notes

You can also read the blog post where he shares more about how to use this: Humane Rails Forms

🧰 Julian Rubisch announced the release of CableReady v.5.0 Read the release notes. This release introduces Updatable:

🧰 Andrew Kane shared that Torch.rb is now powered by LibTorch2

🧰 Brad Gessler shared a PR merged to Rails that is about Rewrite Asset Pipeline guide for Rails 7 by zzak

🧰 Stefanni Brasil announced a new release v.3.2.0 of faker gem that is now RFC 2606 compliant (RFC 2606 - Reserved Top Level DNS Names) Read release notes

🧰 Sinatra announced a new release of version 3.0.6. Read the commit

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🤝 Related (but not Ruby-specific)

🤝Uncle Bob Martin shared about abstraction:

🤝Arvid Kahl invited us to think about mental health:

🤝David Walsh asked about development tools for Mac OS:

👉Schwad shared a gist about git_revert_dir

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