--- title: "The Rails community speaks" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 605 published_at: "2022-05-26" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/605" --- Plus a way to put Ruby in your Crystal, mocking SMTP servers, and building desktop apps in Ruby. | [🇺🇦](https://war.ukraine.ua/) #​605 — May 26, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/605) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/pfvruhis0uxr36nxq9f4.jpg)](https://rails-hosting.com/2022/) [2022 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results](https://rails-hosting.com/2022/) — Over the past 13 years, Planet Argon has run several surveys like this. We encouraged you to take part, as usual, and the answers from 2660 folks (skewing heavily to long-time Rails developers) are now boiled down into the results: - [Devise](https://github.com/heartcombo/devise) is both the most loved and most frustrating gem! - Ruby 2.7 remains the most popular Ruby version in use. - GitHub Actions has become the most popular CI system on its first showing in the survey, pushing Circle CI down to #2. - `rbenv` remains the most popular Ruby version manager but the use of `asdf` is rapidly growing as RVM dips. - Most Rails apps are _not_ being updated to the latest version quickly. - Remote working dominates and most dev teams have continued to get larger. 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Test Double **Quick Bits:** - ⚠️ Reader Ilya Demukh has written in to note that [the most popular Ruby extension for VS Code](https://github.com/rubyide/vscode-ruby) hasn't seen a release in over a year and the author is [actively looking for maintainers to help out](https://github.com/rubyide/vscode-ruby#visual-studio-code-ruby-extensions). - [Rails has three new core members](https://rubyonrails.org/2022/5/23/welcome-to-core-and-committers): Ryuta Kamizono (the 4th most prolific committer to Rails overall), Jean Boussier, and John Hawthorn. Yasuo Honda and Jonathan Hefner also join the Committers team. - IDE developer _JetBrains_ has opened the [early access program for RubyMine 2022.2.](https://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2022/05/rubymine-2022-2-eap-is-open/) Improvements have been made to the debugger for Ruby 3, RBS support continues to improve, and more. - The [first beta of Postgres 15](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-15-beta-1-released-2453/) is out – I've written a quick walkthrough of [trying it out quickly with Docker.](https://dev.to/peterc/how-to-quickly-play-with-postgresql-15-beta-using-docker-17hh) If you're a Postgres user, check out [our _Postgres Weekly_](https://postgresweekly.com/) – it's an exciting time for Postgres and we share a lot there. Jobs [🔴💎 Oportunidad Sr RoR Engineer / Team Lead ✨🚀 (Remote in Spain)](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2988294330) — Do you love Ruby, Rails & GraphQL? Do you and enjoy working as a part of a product team? Working across platforms Web&Mobile? 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Chris Oliver [An Introduction to Polymorphism](https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/05/25/an-introduction-to-polymorphism-in-ruby-on-rails.html) — [Polymorphism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism_%28computer_science%29) means slightly different things in different areas of computer science, this post quickly digs into what it means in Ruby and where it can help clean up code in a Rails app. Jesse McDermott 📜 [The Practical Effects of the GVL on Scaling in Ruby](https://www.speedshop.co/2020/05/11/the-ruby-gvl-and-scaling.html) — This is from 2020 and the [Ractors](https://ruby-doc.org/core-3.0.0/Ractor.html) mentioned within are now a Ruby 3 core feature, but this meaty post on concurrency and parallelism came up in conversation recently and I still think it’s useful. There’s always a lock, it’s just a matter of where it’s implemented! 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