--- title: "Sidekiq 7 (beta) and Sinatra 3 (for real)" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 622 published_at: "2022-09-29" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/622" --- Plus building nginx modules in Ruby, and if at first (your Ruby code) doesn't succeed, try, try, try again.. | #​622 — September 29, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/622) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/rehnx3rb17ndmyxvpo65.jpg)](https://www.phlex.fun/) [Phlex: A New Component-Oriented View Framework](https://www.phlex.fun/) — Author Joel Drapper has certainly been putting in the effort since creating Phlex a few months ago. It lets you treat everything on a Web page as a distinct component and manage them all as plain old Ruby objects – the view format itself is also entirely pure Ruby which might remind you of _why’s [Markaby](https://github.com/markaby/markaby) a little! There’s a [ERB to Phlex converter](https://www.phlexing.fun/) you can play with to see how it looks. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/joeldrapper/phlex). Joel Drapper 💡 It's early days, so tutorials are thin on the ground, but [phlex-sinatra](https://github.com/joeldrapper/phlex-sinatra) shows off how to use Phlex from Sinatra which I found instructive. Also, if you're already a [ViewComponent](https://viewcomponent.org/) user, Joel explains [how Phlex is different here](https://github.com/joeldrapper/phlex/discussions/86#discussioncomment-3376572). [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/c80454e7.png)](https://www.honeybadger.io/tour/cron-job-heartbeat-monitoring/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ruby) [Is Your App’s Heart Beating?💓](https://www.honeybadger.io/tour/cron-job-heartbeat-monitoring/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ruby) — Remember when your monthly backup failed, or when those customers didn't get billed? How did you find out? Our heartbeat feature monitors critical tasks, so that you'll never miss another silent failure. **When Honeybadger is quiet, life is good****.** Honeybadger sponsor [Sidekiq 7.0 Beta Now Available](https://www.mikeperham.com/2022/09/27/sidekiq-7.0-beta-now-available/) — Mike has a lot of exclamation points to share with this preview of the next version of Ruby’s most popular background job processing system. The [new features are explained here](https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/blob/7-0/docs/7.0-Upgrade.md) and include job metrics, being able to _embed_ Sidekiq within another process, a big update to how Sidekiq communicates with Redis, and more. Mike Perham [Sinatra 3.0 Was Released; Did Anyone Notice?](https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#300--2022-09-26) — One of Ruby’s most popular and long standing ways to build webapps (and the original inspiration for Node’s _Express_) has had a major update, though it doesn’t seem to be getting discussed _anywhere_ yet (no post on the [official Sinatra blog](https://sinatrarb.com/blog.html) either). We’re still digging into this and will cover it in more depth next week, but.. it’s out! Haase, Tomayko, Mizerany et al. [Put: A Better Way to Sort Ruby Objects?](https://blog.testdouble.com/talks/2022-09-28-a-better-way-to-sort-ruby-objects/) — The go-to way to sort Ruby objects by complex criteria is Enumerable’s `sort_by` method. The new [Put](https://github.com/testdouble/put) library, however, aims to make such sorting clearer, terser, and `nil`-safe. There’s even [a screencast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUk-IG_-5R0) showing it off. 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