Vernier: A Next Generation CRuby (3.2+) Profiler — A sampling profiler that can track multiple threads, GVL activity, GC pauses, idle time, and more. If you’ve been enjoying Tenderlove’s recent livestreams, you may have ▶️ seen it on there. Once you’ve captured a profile, you can view it in a few ways (including on the web), but here’s some example output.

John Hawthorn

Need to Upgrade Rails with Zero Downtime? — Ready for Rails 7.2? Top-notch engineering teams (from startups to Fortune 500 companies) trust the FastRuby.io team in mission-critical upgrades. Leverage our 30,000+ dev hours of experience: Get to Ruby 3.3 and Rails 7.2 with zero downtime🔥

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Kamal: Hot Deployment Tool to Watch — or a Game Changer? — First published about what was then called MRSK, the Evil Martians have updated their take on DHH’s container-based deployment tool from a 2024 perspective. If you’re not yet using Kamal or want to understand when/why you should/shouldn’t use it, this is for you.

Evil Martians

RubyGems Not Vulnerable to the xz/liblzma Backdoor — If you follow tech news more broadly, you’ll have seen news about a backdoor in the xz/liblzma project. While the vulnerability has far reaching implications, the RubyGems team has done an audit of its effect on RubyGems (including every gem) and found no issues.

Samuel Giddins

Ruby Benchmark: Data.define, Struct, OpenStruct — A comparison of Data.define, Struct, OpenStruct – all ways to conveniently define data objects.

Lucian Ghinda

Rails 8 Adding Rate Limiting to Action Controller via Kredis Limiter Type — Rails 8 will provide a rate_limit method to define rate limiting rules within controllers.

Siddharth Shringi

Introducing Ruzzy: A Coverage-Guided Ruby Fuzzer — Fuzzing is a form of dynamic testing that feeds random inputs to a test subject and Ruzzy is the latest gem to offer fuzzing Ruby code. After a quick usage example, there’s a lot of information here about implementation details.

Matt Schwager

Gemsmith 21.5: CLI Tool for Smithing New Ruby Gems — An ideal tool if you want to go a step beyond Bundler’s gem skeletons. The homepage does a good job showing off the main features, but there’s also its GitHub repo.

Brooke Kuhlmann

Hookdeck: The Amazon EventBridge Alternative — Receive, transform, filter, route, and send messages across your EDA with an event gateway for engineering teams.

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📋 Clipboard: Cross-Platform Access to the Clipboard — A library of over 10 years’ vintage, but still maintained, supporting modern versions of Ruby (including JRuby), and clipboard access on Linux, macOS, Windows, WSL, and more.

Jan Lelis

PermanentRecords: Soft-Delete for Your ActiveRecord Records — A way to prevent Active Record objects being destroyed, as long as their model has a deleted_at column available. An alternative to ActsAsParanoid.

Jack Danger

React on Rails 14: Bringing React, Webpack, and Rails Together — A major release because Ruby 2.7 support is dropped, but otherwise broadly stays the same and still worth a look if you want to integrate more closely with React in a Rails app – here’s how it works.

ShakaCode

ActiveRecordCursorPaginate: Cursor-Based Pagination for Active Record — Paginate through an AR relation using cursor pagination. It also supports ordering by any column on the relation.

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