--- title: "🌻 Puma 6.0 released" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 625 published_at: "2022-10-20" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/625" --- Plus DHH on leaving the cloud behind, we promote another newsletter, and using Google's alternative regex library from Ruby. | #​625 — October 20, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/625) 🇺🇦 Together with [![pgAnalyze\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_350,h_100/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/lhwcvgc1asd4fzaahty4.png)](https://pganalyze.com/ebooks/advanced-database-programming-rails-postgres?utm_source=RubyWeeklyPrimaryMasthead10202022) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/sdbzrec5foifztkileal.jpg)](https://shopify.engineering/relationships-between-ruby-top-100-packages-dependencies) [Finding Relationships Between Ruby’s Top 100 Packages and Their Dependencies](https://shopify.engineering/relationships-between-ruby-top-100-packages-dependencies) — RubyGems recently began rolling out a new security policy for protecting the most heavily used gems, but what about the _dependencies_ of those gems? Kevin got to work using the (very useful) [RubyGems data dumps](https://rubygems.org/pages/data) and found that _‘24 of the 112 big gems rely on small gems’_ but really the journey is more interesting than the outcome here. Kevin Lin [Puma 6.0 'Sunflower' Released](https://github.com/puma/puma/blob/master/6.0-Upgrade.md) — [Puma](https://puma.io/) is arguably the leading HTTP server for Rack based apps right now and 6.0 is a significant release with overall performance improvements, experimental [Rack 3](https://github.com/rack/rack/blob/main/UPGRADE-GUIDE.md) support, support for Sidekiq 7 ‘capsules’, [and more](https://github.com/puma/puma/blob/master/History.md#600--2022-10-14). Note that Ruby 2.2 and 2.3 support has been dropped. 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In other news, DHH has also discovered that [LinkedIn is actually pretty good](https://world.hey.com/dhh/linkedin-71ee75d9). David Heinemeier Hansson ✉️ [The Short Ruby Newsletter](https://newsletter.shortruby.com/p/issue-14-2022) — A newsletter that's not by us! But don’t be fooled, it’s actually _waaaay_ longer than _Ruby Weekly_ but does a good job of digging up Ruby related tips, opinion and discussion from Twitter in particular. A good way to keep up with tips and chatter while we stick to the boring stuff ;-) Lucian Ghinda [Improving Your Code with RubyCritic](https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/10/19/improve-code-in-your-ruby-application-with-rubycritic.html) — [RubyCritic](https://github.com/whitesmith/rubycritic) is a meta-tool for producing reports about Ruby code quality. It uses other tools like Reek, SimpleCov, Flay, and Flog to produce reports about things like complexity, code smells, and test coverage. Brena Monteiro **QUICK BITS:** - The [dry-rb](https://dry-rb.org/) family of libraries [has adopted Zeitwerk](https://dry-rb.org/news/2022/10/17/dry-rb-adopts-zeitwerk-for-code-loading/) for code (auto)loading. - [gemdex.org](http://gemdex.org/) is a new and experimental way to search for Ruby gems by placing weights on different priorities you might have. - A few weeks ago, Dave Kimura began doing weekly 'This Week in Rails' video news roundups on YouTube. [▶️ Here's this week's video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUiGMERL53E&list=PLoQwKu-bfLSakGBJEBrGRpSV_sqA2jbTc) _(4 minutes.)_ [ViewComponent in The Wild: Building Modern Rails Frontends](https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/viewcomponent-in-the-wild-building-modern-rails-frontends) — The first in a two-part series on using ViewComponents, which is allegedly the frontend rage in Rails (and [at GitHub](https://viewcomponent.org/viewcomponents-at-github.html)) right now. This post focuses mostly on design patterns and the benefits of such. Evil Martians [How to Build Your Own Rails Generator](https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/build-a-rails-generator/) — In the context of Rails, [_generators_](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/generators.html) are workflow tools that can be used to automate tasks, generate other files, and even generate other generators! This article explores them, including how to build your own from scratch. William Kennedy [A Deep Dive into Active Record Validations](https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/active-record-validations/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ruby) — Accepting user input is critical to Rails applications, but without validations, it can cause problems. [Learn why](https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/active-record-validations/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ruby). Honeybadger sponsor [Pagination in Hanami Apps with ROM](https://hanamimastery.com/episodes/32-rom-pagination) — Hanami and [Ruby Object Mapper](https://rom-rb.org/) focus on keeping things as simple, extensible, and maintainable as possible. This approach to pagination is no exception and includes validating the pagination parameters. Seb Wilgosz (Hanami Mastery) [Time Ranges Are Clearer When Querying Databases](https://andycroll.com/ruby/time-ranges-are-clearer-when-querying-databases/) — Consider using range expressions instead of string fragments when querying for a period of time - they’re shorter and less prone to bugs. Andy Croll [Enumerating Musical Notes](https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/enumerating-musical-notes/) — A look at using Array and Enumerable to teach Ruby (and you) how to play guitar. It’s a fun and different problem to solve with the language. Kevin Murphy 🛠 Code & Tools [re2: Ruby bindings to Google's RE2 Regex Library](https://github.com/mudge/re2) — RE2 bills itself as _“a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines”_ and this project brings it into the Ruby world. Note that re2’s [regex syntax](https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax) differs from what you might be used to. v1.5.0 adds [a new ‘set’ feature](https://github.com/mudge/re2/releases/tag/v1.5.0) for matching against a collection of patterns simultaneously. Paul Mucur [pg_enquo: A Way to Securely Query Against Encrypted Data](https://enquo.org/components/pg_enquo/) — [Enquo](https://enquo.org/) (standing for “ENcrypted QUery Operations”) is an admittedly niche (for now) approach as it also requires client support (currently only in Rust and Ruby – yes, there's a Rails integration) but it’s interesting to see experiments in this area given increasing concern and legislation around data privacy and security. 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The original author of `premailer-rails` has since [promised fresh development](https://github.com/fphilipe/premailer-rails/issues/272#issuecomment-1280045490) so you’ll need to do your research before picking a solution in the interim. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/Intrepidd/premailer-rails). 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