#652 — May 4, 2023 |
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Ruby Weekly |
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Retries Made Better with Faraday Loop — Ever need a simple way to retry a block of code in Ruby? Maybe with a maximum number of retries or exponential backoff? The popular Faraday HTTP client library has a great built-in solution that it uses for retrying HTTP requests which has been extracted into Faraday Loop for us to use elsewhere. Nate Kontny (Census Engineering) / LostIsland |
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Triggering CI from Pull Requests and Force Pushes in GitHub Actions — I’d love to see more practical GitHub Actions tutorials like this as it can feel a little opaque. Here’s how the creators of slack-ruby-client auto generate pull requests based on Slack API updates. Daniel Doubrovkine |
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QUICK BITS
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📕 Tutorials, Articles, and Videos |
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▶ VS Code Extensions for Ruby (That I Use) — A Rails YouTuber (videos here) explains what Visual Studio Code extensions he uses. None are Rails specific and could be used by any Rubyist. Deanin |
💡 There's also a new VS Code release just out with improvements to the terminal, new default dark and light color themes, support for profile templates, a built-in color picker, and numerous other things. |
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Frictionless Developer Environments with Nix — How do you know if someone uses Nix? Don’t worry – they’ll tell you! 😆 Seriously, though, there are enough benefits to be had that it’s worth understanding it as an option, even if you don’t use it. Andrew Coleman |
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🚨 Rails 6.0 Is Hitting EOL on June 1st 🚨 Need to Upgrade Fast? — Let us help with your Ruby or Rails upgrade. Collaborate with the team behind the Rails Upgrade Workshop (RailsConf). FastRuby․io | Ruby Tech Debt Services sponsor |
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Creating Custom Rails Generators — Rails generators can help remove friction from the process of spinning up new ideas, but you don’t have to limit yourself to the included ones.. Garrett Dimon |
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Rails' 'Dangerous Query Method' Deprecation — If you’ve updated a Rails app you might have seen a scary looking ‘Dangerous query method’ deprecation. Luckily, it’s easy to resolve and will make your app safer too. Gelsey Torres (FastRuby) |
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Extending Ruby Classes with Modules — Back to some Ruby OO basics. Paweł Dąbrowski |
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Integrate and Troubleshoot Inbound Emails with Action Mailbox in Rails
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Polymorphic Associations in Rails: Why, What, and How
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Using a Redlock Mutex to Avoid Duplicate Requests
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Whatever You Do, Don't Autoload Rails |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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Authie 4.0: Database-Backed User Sessions for Rails — Makes it easier to invalidate sessions from afar without making changes to cookies or to see who is currently logged in. Adam Cooke |
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MiniSql: A Minimal, Safe SQL Executor for Postgres and SQLite — Makes things nicer if you’re using Discourse |
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Flipping Out Over Flipper Feature Flags 🤪🏁 — Learn how to integrate feature flags into your Rails application using the Flipper gem to test your code at scale. Honeybadger sponsor |
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rdom: An Experiment in Server-Side Reactive DOM Updates — Just a proof of concept for now, with the author admitting “there’s a memory leak in s.rb, which I’m not really sure how to solve.” Nonetheless, experiments like this have a way of turning into tomorrow’s reality.. Andreas Alin |
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MagmaChat: A Rails 7-based ChatGPT Bot Platform MagmaLabs |
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💡 An improvement to last week's tip? |
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Last week we included a handy tip for using Caddy and He's written up the technique in this gist – I struggled to make it work on my first attempt, but this is a last minute addition to the newsletter and the feature does indeed appear to be offered by Caddy. If all else fails, though, the tip in last week's issue still works 😉 |