1.  A Ruby One-Liners Cookbook — Ruby is a fantastic language for one-liners, whether in IRB or even from the command line. This cookbook is an extension of a epic list of them we’ve shared before.

Sundeep Agarwal

2.  What We Can Learn From _why, The Long Lost Developer — GitHub did a great feature on a Rubyist who actually left the community some years ago: why the lucky stiff. _why was a prolific member of the community who wrote a popular introductory guide to Ruby, maintained several libraries, drew cartoons, and more. Their memory, work, and attitude live on.

Klint Finley (GitHub ReadME Project)

3.  Rails Controller Patterns and Anti-Patterns — This was last in a series of popular posts about Rails patterns and anti-patterns. Previous excursions covered patterns and anti-patterns for views and for models, if you want the whole set.

Nikola Đuza

4.  RBS: A New Ruby 3 Typing Language in Action — RBS was introduced with Ruby 3.0 about a year ago and it wasn't the easiest thing to get your head around. This article went into more depth and provided a handy introduction (and comparison to Sorbet) if typed Ruby intrigues you.

Diogo Souza

Awesome Print Came Back: Pretty Print Your Ruby Objects with Style — For years, Awesome Print has provided a great way to ‘pretty print’ Ruby objects in a way that goes far beyond what the standard library's pp offers. The project went stale for long enough that a fork called Amazing Print was formed but the original returned in 2021 supporting Rails 5+ and Ruby 2.7+. Amazing Print has, however, seen more releases since so there's still a choice for you to make.

Awesome Print Team

Privacy-Aware Rails Consoles with console1984 and audits1984 — Basecamp created console1984 to protect sensitive/encrypted data in a console connected to production. The audits1984 gem provides a UI (Rails engine) to examine the logs created by console1984.

Jorge Manrubia (Basecamp)

Complete Peace of Mind Rails Hosting — If you need a break over the holidays, you need OpsCare. We keep your app running, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with a worldwide team.

OpsCare by reinteractive sponsor

Fisk: A Pure Ruby x86-64 Assembler — An interesting project from tenderlove and a clever bit of work representing x86 assembly language via a mostly implicit Ruby DSL. It relates to his recent work on his own JIT compiler written in Ruby as seen on his recent livestreams.

Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson

Adornable: A Way to Use Decorators on Ruby Methods — If you’ve ever looked at Python’s decorators or Lisp’s ‘advice’ and thought you’d like a similar way to extend Ruby methods, this might be for you.

Keegan Leitz

YouPlot: A Command Line Tool That Draw Plots in The Terminal — I continue to be impressed by the aesthetic of this. The underlying plotting library is unicode_plot.rb if you want to pull off similar things in your own code.

Red Data Tools

Shortcut Puts the Agile in Agile and the “Can” in Kanban

Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) sponsor

Rails Mini Profiler 0.7.0: Performance Profiling for Rails, Made Simple — Rails Mini Profiler provides detailed information about your requests to help you figure out why certain requests perform poorly.

Hans-Jörg Schnedlitz

Standard 1.5: A Ruby Style Guide, Linter and Formatter — As StandardJS is to JavaScript, Standard is to Ruby, and it's seen quite a few updates this year.

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