Rails and Its Ruby 'Dialect' — Originally sporting a title of “Rails is not written in Ruby”, this post makes the point that Rails' choices hugely impact what we consider to be 'Ruby' while using it. While many Rubyists think that monkeypatching is troublesome, we (nearly) all still use Rails and ActiveSupport to some extent, accepting the “magic” that they bring for convenience. Peter pushes for composition, giving examples of libraries today that do it right.

Peter Solnica

Papercraft: Composable Templating for Ruby — Papercraft (which supports HTML, XML, and JSON) sets itself apart from other templating gems by making everything a proc, allowing easy and clear composition of templates. Reminds me of _why’s Markaby from back in the day, but goes further with the idea.

Sharon Rosner

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Rails 7.0.2 Released — Only a tiny point release, but with some noteworthy changes nonetheless, including database schemas now being versioned with the current Rails version and no longer being able to pass service_name to DirectUploadsController

Rafael Franca

Using AWS S3 for File Storage in Rails Apps — Amazon’s S3 provides an essentially infinite way to scale your file storage (if you ignore the monthly bill..) and using it to store assets for a Rails app isn’t too complicated.

Jeffrey Morhous

Reusing Rails Test Fixtures for db:seed — “If you always skip fixtures for factories when working with Rails, you are missing out!”

Josef Strzibny

'The Software and Infrastructure We Use to Run Our SaaS' — I always like a look behind the scenes at what stacks companies are using day-to-day. Rubyist Andy Croll shares his company’s approach here with, unsurprisingly, Rails at the heart.

Andy Croll

Project Management for Software Teams Has Never Been Easier

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Strong Migrations 0.8: Catch Unsafe Migrations in Development — Detects potentially dangerous operations and prevents them running by default.

Andrew Kane

Arbre: A Way to Build HTML Views in Ruby Code — Billing itself as an ‘object-oriented DOM tree in Ruby’, Arbre is extracted from the Active Admin Rails admin framework.

Active Admin

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Win32::Screenshot: Capture Screenshots on Windows from Ruby — It uses FFI to directly call the relevant functions in the Windows GDI system (here's the code at the heart of that operation, if you're curious about calling Win32 APIs from Ruby).

Jarmo Pertman

Awesome Nested Set: The Nested Set Pattern for ActiveRecord Models — Billed as a replacement for acts_as_nested_set and BetterNestedSet, this now supports Rails 7.

Collective Idea

AnnotateModels: Annotate Code with ActiveRecord Model Schema Info — Having schema info at the top of your model files, say, could be handy for quicker referencing while developing.

Cuong Tran