How to Correct 32,000 Incorrect CSV Files in Fewer Than 32,000 Steps — We’ve all faced a data processing task from hell and CSV loves to throw up complexities around escaping and stray commas. Here’s how one Rubyist dealt with it, and came up with the comma_splice gem to help.

Jeff Keen

Magic Comments in Ruby — You’ve likely seen (and even used) ‘magic’ comments, but you probably don’t know all of them or understand things like precedence.

Mehdi Farsi

Automated Code Reviews for Ruby — Take the hassle out of code reviews - Codacy flags errors automatically, directly from your Git workflow. Customize standards on coverage, duplication, complexity & style violations. Use in the cloud or on private servers. Get started free.

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JRuby 9.2.8.0 Released — The JVM-based Ruby implementation boasts a substantial runtime memory reduction.

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Ruby on Rails Engineer — Goldstar is looking for experienced Ruby on Rails Engineers onsite in Portland, Oregon and Pasadena, California.

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Ruby Developers Are in Demand on Vettery — Ready for a bold career move? Make a free profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers today.

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Using clamp To Restrict Values to a Certain Range — Add this to my “I didn’t notice Ruby added this” pile. The clamp method was introduced in Ruby 2.4 and lets you do things like this: 500.clamp(1, 100) # => 100

Andy Croll

How Many Ways to Unaccent a Text String? — The answer is: Many. But, which one is fastest? The answer is: It depends.

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Updating Rails: Where's Memcache Gone? — When there are issues after an upgrade, sometimes it’s your fault, sometimes it’s a gem’s fault, and sometimes it’s both.

Michael Klimenko

How to Visualize the Age of Dependencies in Your Ruby Projects — A neat little script that spits out the age of your project’s various dependencies which will then make it easy to visualize them.

Matouš Borák

Exorcise Poltergeist with Apparition — Do you have flaky Capybara tests? Of course, you do. Let the power of the Apparition gem compel them. (Editor: That’s the wrong classic horror movie! 😂)

Dr. Chris Drane

Architecting a Roles and Permissions System Using Rails, GraphQL, and React — There’s plenty in here about authorization system design, alongside the tech bits.

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Free eBook: How to Get a 3x Performance Improvement on Your Postgres Database

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Advanced Multi-Database Techniques in Rails 6 — Most of this is about handling writing vs reading to different databases or replicas, but there is a lot of configuration variations here.

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Breaking Apart Inheritable mattr_accessors in HTTParty — The subtitle of this post could be “How to Handle Inheritable Attributes”, which is one of those things for which there is no perfect answer.

Nikita Misharin

Introducing Konfig: A Kubernetes Friendly Rails Configuration Gem — One gem to rule them all…for configuration values and secrets.

Cloud66

Moat: A Small Authorization Library, Built for Scopes — Inspired by Pundit, but focuses more on filtering collections than individual resources when defining policy.

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TTY::Links: Hyperlinks in Your Terminal — Test to see if a terminal supports hyperlinks and outputs them correctly if so.

Piotr Murach

FIFA: The World's Football/Soccer Countries and Codes, in Ruby — Part of the broader sport.db sports database.

Gerald Bauer

aws-dev-utils: Ruby Gem Providing Common AWS Utilities — A set of refinements for the AWS SDK that covers pagination and caching boilerplate.

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Comma Splice: Fixes CSVs with Unquoted Commas in Values

Jeff Keen