Ruby Next: Transpile Modern Ruby Code to Run on Older Versions — An interesting way to get Ruby code written with the latest syntax to run on older versions or alternative implementations (like mruby or Opal, say). This playground shows off the basic idea, and this could be useful for library maintainers or anyone who wants to experiment. GitHub repo.

Vladimir Dementyev

Optimizing Ruby’s JSON — Rails core team member Jean concludes a seven-part series going super deep into efforts made to significantly boost the performance of Ruby’s json library, with the end results trumping many of the alternatives. We linked to this when Jean began the series, but now the whole epic journey is here to enjoy.

Jean Boussier

Memetria K/V: Efficient Redis & Valkey Hosting — Memetria K/V offers Ruby applications hosting for Redis OSS and Valkey, complete with large key tracking and detailed analytics for improved data oversight and performance.

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Using CloudFlare Turnstile to Protect Certain Pages on a Rails App — Turnstile is a free service that replaces CAPTCHAs with Cloudflare’s proprietary bot detection approach.

Jonathan Rochkind

Stealthly Browsing and Scraping with Ferrum — Ferrum is a Ruby library for remotely controlling Chrome and Harrison shares some tips for staying under the radar when using it. (As always with these things, obey local laws and use your best judgment as to what is responsible.)

Harrison Broadbent

🐌 If Your Rails Team Needs a Little Boost… — We can augment your team with devs to help you keep up with your delivery schedule. Test us!

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Rage: An HTTP API Framework Compatible with Rails — There are plenty of ‘alternative’ Ruby webapp and HTTP API approaches (e.g. Sinatra, Roda, or Hanami) but ‘Rails compatibility’ is the big win for this high performance, fiber-based API-only option. v1.12.0 adds a Redis adapter for scaling Cable-based apps across servers.

Roman Samoilov

Lrama: Pure Ruby LALR Parser Generator — An official Ruby project to implement an LALR parser generator in pure Ruby with a goal of providing error tolerant Ruby parsing.

Ruby Project

🚀 Need to Upgrade to Rails 8.0 + Ruby 3.4 but Not Sure How? — Bonsai by FastRuby.io is the monthly upgrade service trusted by top-notch engineering teams. Upgrade with confidence.

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AutoHtml: Filters That Transform Plain Text Into HTML Code — For situations where even Markdown might be overkill (although it is an option..)

Dejan Simić

has_some_of_many: Optimized Top-N-Per-Group Active Record Associations — Adds optimized association methods (has_one_of_many, has_some_of_many) for ‘top N’ queries to Active Record using efficient JOIN LATERAL queries.

Ben Sheldon