Rails 6.1 RC1 Now Available — The list of features and fixes coming to 6.1 is impressive, to say the least: horizontal DB sharding, per-database connection switching, strict loading associations, delegated types (an alternative to STI), error objects. and more… whew. It’s time to play.

Eileen M. Uchitelle

RubyConf 2020: This Time It's Virtual — If you’ve never made it to RubyConf for logistical reasons, this may be the year for you. It still costs money, but will be entirely online with Q&As, ‘virtual hangs’ and even a hallway track. Here’s the full schedule.

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Pattern Matching No Longer Experimental — It’s only a commit on the core repo so you’ll probably be waiting for Ruby 3 for this but pattern matching, as introduced in Ruby 2.7, is no longer considered an experimental feature.

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How to Migrate Your JavaScript From Sprockets to Webpacker — Rails 3.1 introduced the ‘asset pipeline’ nine years ago(!) built around Sprockets. Webpack solved some of the same issues in the JavaScript world and since Rails 6 it’s been the default solution via Webpacker. But what about if you need to migrate?

Ariel Juodziukynas

How to Create a Ruby CLI App and Distribute It Via Homebrew — Covers all the essentials quickly and clearly. (Homebrew is a popular package manager on macOS (and less so on Linux).)

Paweł Dąbrowski

Ready for Rails 6.1? Our Stay Up to Date Service Can Help — FastRuby.io's new Stay Up To Date service continually pushes PRs to your repository to ease your future upgrade to Rails 6.1.

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The Performance Impact of Using Rails View Partials — Using partials may DRY things up, but it can lose performance. This post presents (HA!) an alternative before noting: “It’s better to repeat yourself than to ship an app with mediocre performance.”

Pawel Urbanek

A List of Rails Shims — When upgrading a Rails app, you’ll sometimes find that functionality is extracted from Rails and moved into a new gem. These gems are called shims.

Luciano Becerra

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer (Remote/EU) — Join our growing team of passionate engineers and help us develop the leading motorhome sharing platform in Europe.

Goboony

Find a Job Through Vettery — Create a profile on Vettery to connect with hiring managers at startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers.

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Terminal Table 2.0: An ASCII Table Generator — One of those projects where the examples show you everything you need to know, so check them out.

TJ Holowaychuk

Termplot: A Simple Terminal Plotting Tool for Streaming Data — Let’s say you have a stream of numbers.. feed them into this and get a live graph in the terminal.

Martin Nyaga

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CrawlerDetect: Gem to Detect Bots and Crawlers via the User Agent — Of course, this won’t catch the more nefarious bots hiding under ‘legit’ seeming user agent strings but claims to detect “1000s” of bots, spiders, and crawlers.

Pavel Kozlov