Rails Brotli Cache: A Drop-in Enhancement for Rails' Cache — Brotli isn’t yet another sour green vegetable but a pretty good data compression algorithm developed by Google, and you can take advantage of its improvements by slotting it into your Rails app.

Paweł Urbanek

Nokogiri 1.15 Released — Nokogiri is one of the longest standing and most heavily used libraries in the Ruby world and remains incredibly useful for parsing and processing XML and HTML documents. It also continues to be developed and 1.15 now lets you optionally make Nokogiri and libxml2 use your system’s malloc for memory management which has a variety of implications.

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Using the Gateway Pattern in Rails — This pattern is useful when you need to communicate with an external API or service as it provides a stable abstraction between your system and the potentially ‘foreign’ vocabulary and nature of an external system.

Matt Brictson

Adding Recommendations to an App with pgvector and OpenAI — The idea is simple on the surface: you use OpenAI to provide the embeddings (as vectors), store those vectors in Postgres using the pgvector extension (now supported by RDS) and use Andrew Kane’s neighbor gem to do a nearest neighbor search across those vectors. Rails is used in the post but you can bring these pieces together in any Ruby app.

Maurício Maia

Need to Upgrade Rails—But Don’t Have the Budget? — We offer fixed-cost, monthly retainers starting at $1,000 so you can pay off your tech debt. Don’t delay—start today 🚀

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Eleven HTML Best Practices for Login & Sign-up Forms — It's not Ruby specific, but this is a pretty quiet week, the Evil Martians blog about Ruby a lot, and.. you almost certainly have an app with a login or signup form that doesn't live up to all of these best practices 😉

Andrey Sitnik

An Introduction to Rails Engines — Engines are essentially mini apps that can be embedded within other Rails apps and they open up a variety of options for making apps more modular and adding packaged functionality into existing apps.

Kudakwashe Siziva

Rails I18n Manager: Complete Translation Editor and Workflow — A Rails engine that provides a Web-based interface for working on your app’s translations. Billing itself as a ‘low tech’ approach, it provides a full workflow with import and export, access to Google-powered translations, and lets you keep your translations right in your app’s repo.

Weston Ganger

docx: A Ruby Library for Working with .docx Files — Most commonly associated with Microsoft Word, .docx are word processing documents and this library lets you read and query them from Ruby.

Tatsuya Sato

DSL Factory: A DSL to Create DSLs? — It’s a bit meta, but abstracts away the boilerplate of creating a DSL into a DSL of its own. The author blogs more about it here.

Tom Rothe

Check Out Our Latest Release — Our latest platform updates enable you to uplevel your CI/CD workflows with security, flexibility, and control.

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Bullet Train: An Open-Source Rails Template for SaaS — Has a ton of features to get your next multi-tenant SaaS idea off the ground with common gems (Devise, CableReady) and frontend frameworks (Tailwind, Stimulus) plus some novel ideas, like so-called “Super Scaffolding.”

Bullet Train

Syntax Tree: Generate a Syntax Tree in the Browser — SyntaxTree is, broadly speaking, a suite of tools built atop Ruby’s own parser with which you can create, manipulate and inspect syntax trees. We like this Web-based version, though, as it provides a quick way to see how Ruby interprets a piece of code, all in a visual way.

Kevin Newton