Benchmarking Your Ruby with time_up — time_up is a new benchmarking gem that makes creating multiple timers as easy as clicking a stopwatch. The gem also has some nice printing and display capabilities. Time to try it out…

Justin Searls

Fullstaq Ruby: A Production-Optimized CRuby Distribution — We featured this alternative CRuby/MRI-based Ruby distribution over a year ago when it was new, but it’s now been updated with Ruby 3.0.2, 2.7.4, and 2.6.8 variants. The basic idea is memory allocation is jemalloc-based which can yield big benefits in production at scale.

Hongli Lai

Try Scout’s New Error Monitoring Feature Add-On for Free — Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues in minutes. See for yourself why Scout is a Ruby developers’s best friend with a free 14-day trial, no credit card needed.

Scout APM sponsor

Crystal 1.1 Released — Crystal isn’t Ruby, but it’s a statically type-checked and compiled language whose syntax is heavily inspired by Ruby and is of interest to many Rubyists as a Ruby-friendly way to write certain types of performance dependent code.

Beta Ziliani

Building a Documentation Workflow in Rails — Making documentation live with your code (known as ‘docs-as-code’) is a good practice to keep docs up to date. Kate Bartolo shows you how while also explaining how to make the docs usable.

Honeybadger Developer Blog

How Release Uses Action Cable and Redux Toolkit — How Release moved to Redux and use it to update the build logs on their static site frontend using Action Cable.

Release

Optimizing MemoWise Performance — We linked to MemoWise in issue 560. Here, Jacob and Jemma explain their ‘Benchmark Driven Development’ approach and what they learned.

Jacob Evelyn & Jemma Issroff

Serve Your Image Library on the Fly, Using a Simple Querystring API — Proxy your browser image requests via OMGIMG and use the querystring to apply resizing and other manipulations you need.

OMGIMG sponsor

Validate CSV Input with ActiveModel::Validations — A look at how to improve the robustness of CSV file ingestion using ActiveModel::Validations.

Kevin Murphy

Picking The Worst Year to Pitch for Euruko — Matias tells us the epic saga of securing the Euroko conference for Helsinki, only to have the pandemic force a pivot to a first-time online event that turned out fine but taught lessons.

Matias Korhonen

Tangram: An Automated Machine Learning Framework — It’s not solely for Ruby – indeed, it’s written in Rust – but you can train a model from a CSV file and then make ‘predictions’ from Ruby code. GitHub repo.

Tangram

activerecord-cte: Brings Common Table Expressions Support to ActiveRecord — Removes the need to drop to Arel or raw SQL while also providing an ActiveRecord::Relation result.

Vlado Cingel

Has Your Rails 6.1 Prep Fallen Behind? FastRuby.io Can Help

FastRuby.io | Rails Upgrade Services sponsor

MailCatcher: A Simple SMTP Server with a Web UI to See Mails — It’s eleven years old but has just hit version 0.8 :-) The idea here is you can send email to it and see how it looks.

Samuel Cochran

Bridgetown 0.21.1: Ruby-Powered Static Site Generator — This release includes Webpack 5 support, moves from Babel to ESBuild and more.

Jared White

Listen 3.6.0: 'Listen' to File Modifications and Know About Changes — OS-optimized on each of macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows, and can detect file modification, creation or deletion in one or more directories.

Guard