Ruby on Whales: Dockerizing Ruby and Rails Development — There a boatload (ha!) of articles on ‘dockerizing’ Rails apps, but this newly updated one is very good and results in a nice setup, specifically for development rather than production. Plus, they’ve added a template via RailsBytes to get you using it.

Vladimir Dementyev

An Update on WebAssembly/WASI Support in Ruby — The author is both a committer to Ruby and Swift and is working on WebAssembly support in both spheres. This post presents a summary of recent progress made to bring native WebAssembly and WASI support to Ruby – likely to land in Ruby 3.2.

Yuta Saito

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The Perils of Parallel Testing in Rails — Parallel testing seems like a simple solution to speeding up your tests (run more tests at once == faster, no?) but there are considerations and gotchas, and knowing them can help you get the biggest bang for your parallel buck.

Hans-Jörg Schnedlitz (AppSignal)

Know What Your Scopes Are Doing: where.first vs find_by — “Knowing the exact SQL Active Record is generating from methods that might seem the same on the surface can be very important.”

Andy Croll

Pipelining Without Pipes — A fun jaunt through a problem that benefits from mixing both OOP and functional bits of Ruby together showing how the language makes programmers happy.

Matheus Richard (thoughtbot)

Achieve Stripe-Quality Webhooks for Your App in Minutes 💃 — Hook Relay offers you inbound and outbound webhook management with automated retries, debugging, and delivery history.

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Finding an Initially Confusing Result in Rails — Do you really understand how find_or_initialize_by works?

Kevin Murphy

Don’t Run Your Ruby Minitest Classes Twice — “If a Minitest class inherits from another class, it will also inherit its methods causing Minitest to run the parent’s tests twice.” (There’s a typo in the example, but the point remains.)

Ignacio Chiazzo

'The Problem That ViewComponent Solves for Me' — There’s been many articles on how to use the ViewComponent gem, but not many on why.

Jason Swett

hotwire-example-template: A Collection of Hotwire Examples — Each branch is a different example including live preview, type-ahead search, dynamic forms, using maps, and more. With all the Hotwire tutorials coming out, this repository is timed perfectly.

thoughtbot, inc.

rrule: iCalendar RRULE Expansion for Ruby — RRULE is a specification for calendar/date ‘recurrence rules’ defined as part of the iCalendar spec. For example, you can have FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=3 resolve to dates over the next three days.

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Alba 1.6: A Superfast JSON Serializer — Supports JRuby and TruffleRuby as well as CRuby. This release includes deprecations in preparation for a future 2.0 release, but also adds support for using instance methods as attributes.

Okura Masafumi

PGSync 0.7: Sync Postgres Data Between Databases — Speed and security are the order of the day, and you can sync partial tables or groups of tables. The README shows off some examples. Written in Ruby.

Andrew Kane

VCR 6.1: Record Your Test Suite's HTTP Interactions and Replay Them — A long standing library for recording HTTP interactions and replaying them during testing. Following 6.0 by two years, 6.1 is principally a release of tweaks and fixes rather than new features.

VCR

telegram-bot-ruby 0.18.0: A Ruby Wrapper for Telegram's Bot API — Telegram is a popular messaging app (and even more so since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) that’s particularly friendly to bots. This release adds support for more recent Bot API features.

Alexander Tipugin

Disco: Generate Recommendations Using Collaborative Filtering — The idea is simple: supply data that represents reviews or activities from users.. then you can generate recommendations for other users from it.

Andrew Kane

Torch.rb 0.10.0: Deep Learning for Ruby — A way to use Torch, an open source machine learning framework.

Andrew Kane