Why and How to Host a Rails App with AWS Elastic Beanstalk and RDS — Elastic Beanstalk is one of AWS’s most mature services and handles the deployment of apps on AWS resources. Here’s a thorough walkthrough of using it to deploy a Rails app onto AWS.

Amos Omondi

Get the Most Out of Redis — Seamless scaling, memory usage maps, key size tracking, and more.

RedisGreen sponsor

An Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in the json Gem — If you’re using the json gem (and most of us are indirectly) try to upgrade to version 2.3.0 or later to avoid a new unsafe object creation vulnerability. More info here.

Yusuke Endoh

RuboCop-ing with Legacy: Bring Your Ruby Code Up to 'Standard' — We’ve seen many RuboCop posts over the years, but this one goes a bit further, encouraging your team to work toward ‘Standard’, the Ruby style to rule them all.

Vladimir Dementyev

Webpacker 5.0 Released — Besides changing required versions, 5.0 supports multiple files per entry (with no config!) just like webpack itself.

Prathamesh Sonpatki

Senior Rails Engineer (Remote, Full Stack Option) — We’re looking for a passionate developer to join our unique team and build beautiful, modular and secure business file transfer solutions.

Swiss Cyber Gate

Full-Stack Engineer (React.js / Rails) (f/m/d), Berlin, Germany — Role with Impact. Exciting projects. Benefits + Relocation. Building the world’s leading talent platform. Join the Heyvolution.

HeyJobs GmbH

Find a Dev Job Through Vettery — Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers.

Vettery

How to Build Multi-Step Forms in Rails — This is a gem-free approach (yay!) that uses session storage (um, yay?)

Jason Swett

How to Renew Let's Encrypt Certificates with ACMEv2 using Ruby — Did you know there’s a Ruby-powered ACME client you can use to renew Let’s Encrypt certificates from Ruby? Neither did I, but here’s how to do it all from Ruby code.

Damjan Rems

eBook: Best Practices for Optimizing Postgres Query Performance — Learn how to get a 3x performance improvement on your Postgres database and 500x reduced data loaded from disk in this free pganalyze eBook.

pganalyze sponsor

Securing SSH Keys in Use — Some interesting Ruby-powered digging around in SSH keys here.

Krzysztof Zych

Using Rack::Proxy to Serve Multiple React Apps on the Same Domain — This is for local development and could be used for non-React setups.

Josh Software

PGSync: Sync Postgres Data Between Databases — Fast, aims to provide good security, and you can sync partial tables or groups of tables. The README shows off some interesting examples.

Andrew Kane

render_async 2.1.5: Render Partials Asynchronously with JS — A new version with some neat new features including two new events that are automatically fired when render_async finishes its work, either successfully or in error.

Rendered Text

Authlogic 6.0: An ActiveRecord-based Authentication Solution

Binary Logic

ViewComponent 2.0: View Component Framework for Rails — GitHub uses this in production itself, so you know it’s well maintained.

GitHub

Yet Another Sinatra Bootstrap App — We’ve seen a few of these ‘Sinatra with a few things attached’ apps over the years, and it’s always interesting to see the different routes people take.

Alejandro Bezdjian

JRuby 9.2.11.1 Released — Fixes just a single issue around sprintf formatting.

JRuby Core Team

pry-byebug: Add Step-by-Step Debugging and Stack Navigation in Pry

David Rodríguez