#472 — October 17, 2019 |
Ruby Weekly |
Debugging Hidden Memory Leaks in Ruby — Tracking down a nasty (new with Rails 6) memory leak using tools like mwrap, heaptrack, iseq_collector, and chap. If these tools aren’t in your toolbox, they might be soon! Sam Saffron |
Shrine 3.0 Released: The File Attachment Handler — Shrine is a gem for handling file attachments that supports resumable uploads and can work with Rails and standard Rack apps. This version is even more friendly to non-Active Record frameworks, among other things. Janko Marohnić |
A New Ruby SDK Gem for Rubyists to Use the Square API — The Square SDK gem makes it easy to use Ruby to process payments or store a card on file from your mobile app or web form. You can also make commerce apps that go beyond payments with orders, customers, inventory and more. Square sponsor |
How MJIT Generates C From Ruby - A Deep Dive — If you like digging into the guts of Ruby compilation and C code, this is your jam. If not, “…this may be a good week to skip this blog.” Noah Gibbs |
A Detailed Log of the Changes in Ruby 2.4 — “Ruby 2.4!?” you say, “That came out 3 years ago.” True, but zverok has continued to analyse its changes in-depth (as well as those in Ruby 2.5) which can be a handy page to skim to find those new features you simply missed or never noticed (e.g. I never knew about zverok |
Ruby 2.7 Introduces a Aditya Narsapurkar |
faastRuby: An Indie Ruby Serverless Platform Shuts Down? — faastRuby was an interesting, independent serverless platform built at a time when AWS Lambda didn’t support Ruby at all. Reading between the lines, it seems the developer may have been acqui-hired by Shopify but he says he’ll be “taking down all faastRuby servers” as a consequence. Paulo Arruda |
💻 Jobs |
Sr. Rails Engineer - Top Consultancy (Remote First / India) — Highly-technical Rails/React/React Native firm led by to of the top 100 Rails contributors. BigBinary.com |
Rails Developer — Help build crowdsourcing tools that democratize decision making and fight politics in large organizations. CultivateLabs |
Find A Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery |
📘 Articles & Tutorials |
Getting Started with AWS S3 IAM Policies Security Config for Rails Apps — The joy of getting S3 bucket access and permissions often leads to incorrect and insecure configurations. Is yours configured properly? Paweł Urbanek |
Let's Hash This Out — Some history and advice on using hashes, including why the author prefers Steve Jackson |
Automate and Standardize Ruby Code Quality — Set standards on coverage, duplication, complexity, and style issues and see real-time feedback in your Git workflow. Codacy sponsor |
Exploring Linux File Locking Mechanisms in Ruby — The usage and gotchas of a couple of file locking mechanisms that discusses bits like advisory and partial file locking. Prajjwal Singh |
▶ Surviving Webpack with Ross Kaffenberger — If the introduction of Webpack into Rails 6 (via Webpacker) has caused confusion, maybe these tales of making the move will fill you with confidence. Ruby Rogues Podcast podcast |
How to Make Colors With Ruby and Bitwise Operations — We don’t see many posts about using Ruby with a Raspberry Pi and this one is particularly fun, nerdy, and colorful. Valentino Stoll |
Rails 6's Saeloun Blog |
Rails, Webpacker, and Vue CLI Can Actually Play Nicely — This is more of a “rip it all out and then put it back a bit differently” approach to the problem, just so you know. Andrew Hunter |
🛠 Code and Tools |
Humanize: A Library to Make Your Numbers More 'Fancy' — If by ‘fancy’ you mean turn into natural language versions, e.g. Ryan Bigg |
with_advisory_lock: Advisory Locking for ActiveRecord — Think of an advisory lock as a mutex that can span multiple hosts. ClosureTree |
eBook: Best Practices for Optimizing Postgres Query Performance pganalyze sponsor |
Piperator 1.0: Composable Pipelines for Enumerators — Inspired by both Elixir’s pipe operator and Node.js streams. Ville Lautanala |
Active Merchant: Shopify's Simple Payment Abstraction Library — A well-established, long-standing gem that continues to get frequent updates. Shopify |
Xcodeproj: Create and Modify Xcode Projects from Ruby — One for you macOS/iOS developers, this could help you script away boring management tasks or auto generate projects, etc. CocoaPods |