--- title: "Rails 7.0 RC1" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 582 published_at: "2021-12-09" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/582" --- Plus a neat new Ruby 3.1 feature, with a (small) sting in the tail. | #​582 — December 9, 2021 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/582) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/xdhkbp5b4ybmxqpjbhhz.jpg)](https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2021/12/6/Rails-7-0-rc-1-released/) [Rails 7.0 RC1 is Here to Test Out](https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2021/12/6/Rails-7-0-rc-1-released/) — Rails 7.0 is almost done and there are some nice new things to check out, such as a brand new JavaScript approach we’ve mentioned [a fair bit](https://world.hey.com/dhh/modern-web-apps-without-javascript-bundling-or-transpiling-a20f2755) this year — (Hotwire, no more Webpacker), AR encryption, and NO MORE SPRING (by default anyway!) David Heinemeier Hansson [DHH: 'The Time Is Right for Hotwire'](https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-time-is-right-for-hotwire-ecdb9b33) — DHH talks about the era of the JavaScript-powered ‘single page application’ (SPA) and how Hotwire is both the way of the future and the ‘default frontend answer’ in Rails 7 (above). Exciting times. Get writing those blog posts and tutorials folks :-) David Heinemeier Hansson [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/e029fa43.png)](https://www2.reinteractive.com/opscare-hosting) [A Complete DevOps Solution for Your Rails App](https://www2.reinteractive.com/opscare-hosting) — OpsCare is a DevOps solution for Rails apps. We give you 100% peace of mind Rails hosting and support. Built on our 12-factor stack, we provide deployment, scaling and monitoring tools, so you're in control, and we keep it performing, 24/7. OpsCare by reinteractive sponsor [A Small Nice Feature Coming in Ruby 3.1, But..](https://zverok.github.io/blog/2021-12-08-value-omission-debug.html) — In Ruby 3.1, due to drop later this month, Ruby gains a JS-esque [hash shorthand syntax](https://dev.to/baweaver/ruby-3-1-shorthand-hash-syntax-first-impressions-19op) which would let you do something neat like `p a:, b:` to show the values of `a` and `b` within a hash (e.g. `{:a => 10, :b => 20}`). Fantastic! But.. there’s [a catch](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18396) if you plan to use this handy shortcut when debugging. Victor Shepelev [Qeweney: An Alternative Feature-Rich HTTP Request/Response API](https://noteflakes.com/articles/2021-12-03-qeweney) — The creator of [Tipi](https://github.com/digital-fabric/tipi) (a web server built on top of Polyphony) has created a Rack-like API that addresses some of Rack’s weaknesses, including streaming and HTTP upgrades. 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David Kimura [Railway Oriented Programming in Rails with Dry-Monads](https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/railway-programming-dry-monads/) — An introduction to a more functional programming-esque error-handling mechanism dubbed ‘railway oriented programming’ — first explained in [a talk by Scott Wlaschin](https://vimeo.com/113707214) (a well known F# developer) several years ago. Abiodun Olowode [The Two Common Ways to Call a Ruby Block](https://www.codewithjason.com/two-common-ways-call-ruby-block/) Jason Swett 🛠 Code & Tools [asdf: A Language Agnostic Way to Manage Multiple Versions of Tools](https://asdf-vm.com/) — I’m increasingly seeing folks using `asdf` as a part alternative to something like RVM or `rbenv`. In my own tests it seems to work pretty well and it supports Node, Elixir, Erlang, and other languages too. [v0.9.0](https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/releases/tag/v0.9.0) just dropped. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf). Akash Manohar J [Styler: A Way to Compose CSS Classes with Ruby](https://bhserna.com/styler-a-tool-to-compose-css-classes-with-ruby.html) — Hmm.. an interesting idea, but I’m not entirely sure. This might appeal to you. Benito Serna [Wicked: Turn a Rails Controller Into a 'Wizard'](https://github.com/zombocom/wicked) — For when you want users to take things step-by-step. ZomboCom [Spend Less Time Debugging and More Time Building with Scout](https://ter.li/46oc1s) Scout sponsor [Chatwoot 2.0: Simple, Open Source Live Chat Software](https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot) — A Rails-based alternative to a service like Intercom, say. [v2.0](https://www.chatwoot.com/blog/2-0-release-ee-edition-et-al/) introduces a new commercial ‘enterprise edition’ as well as improved dashboards and IMAP / SMTP integrations. Chatwoot [JRuby 9.3.2.0 Released](https://www.jruby.org/2021/12/02/jruby-9-3-2-0.html) — The Ruby 2.6.x compatible branch of JRuby has been given some security tweaks and the `jffi` library has been signed for troublefree use on macOS when running on Apple’s M1 chips. JRuby Core Team [Regexp::Parser: A Regular Expression Parser Library](https://github.com/ammar/regexp_parser) — For actual tokenizing, parsing and transforming regexes themselves. Ammar Ali [Spyke: Interact with REST Services in ActiveRecord Style](https://github.com/balvig/spyke) Jens Balvig [GraphqlRails 2.0: Write GraphQL Server Side in the Rails Way](https://github.com/samesystem/graphql_rails) SameSystem [excon 0.89.0: A Fast, Simple HTTP 1.1 Client for Ruby](https://github.com/excon/excon) excon Curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc), [Glenn Goodrich](https://twitter.com/ruprict) and [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). 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