--- title: "The state of YJIT" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 626 published_at: "2022-10-27" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/626" --- Plus Germany's interest in RubyGems, crisp boundaries, and a new Jekyll release. | #​626 — October 27, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/626) 🇺🇦 Together with [![AppSignal logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_700,h_120/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/lme8p344dw1aodshz9px.png)](https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/08/31/monitor-ruby-application-performance-with-magic-dashboards?utm_source=ruby-weekly-sponsored&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2022-08-31) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/dgpup5d1e4z8nbld7coh.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbLGqTxTRp0) ▶[Building a Lightweight IR and Backend for YJIT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbLGqTxTRp0) — Maxime is a compiler developer with a particular interest in JIT compilers and she works on CRuby’s own YJIT at Shopify. This is a technical talk covering some of the recent work particularly around cross-architecture concerns – it’s advanced, but delivered in a way most intermediate Rubyists could follow. Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert If you'd prefer **a quick _writeup_ on YJIT and why it matters,** Maxime's own [YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby](https://shopify.engineering/yjit-just-in-time-compiler-cruby) article is a great place to start. Ultimately, performance is the goal. [A Cookbook of Ruby One-Liners](https://learnbyexample.github.io/learn_ruby_oneliners/one-liner-introduction.html) — Ruby is a _fantastic_ language for one-liners, whether in IRB or from the command line. We’ve linked to this cookbook before but it continues to prove very useful. 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Creating an editor for tables with ActionText’s Trix editor and Turbo Frames. Julian Rubisch [Working with Crisp Boundaries](https://www.codewithjason.com/crisp-boundaries/) — _“In order to make your classes and methods more understandable, keep your boundaries crisp by accepting the minimum amount of argument information necessary in order to get the job done.”_ Jason Swett 🛠 Code & Tools [Truemail 3.0: Framework Agnostic Email Validator/Verifier](https://github.com/truemail-rb/truemail) — Verify email addresses by way of regexes, DNS, SMTP and more. [v3.0](https://github.com/truemail-rb/truemail/releases/tag/v3.0.0) adds a way to specify addresses to always be allowed/blocked. 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