An Extensive Ruby 3.2 Changelog — Victor always does such a great job highlighting language changes (not implementation changes) that his regular Ruby update documents are pretty much a must-bookmark. If you haven’t checked this out yet, now’s the time.

Victor Shepelev

Free eBook: Advanced Database Programming with Rails and Postgres — Learn about subqueries, materialized views, and custom data types in Postgres and Rails. We walk through realistic real-life examples, translating first into SQL, and then into Rails code. Every example comes with source code so you can follow along.

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Using Zeitwerk Outside Rails — Zeitwerk is a thread-safe Ruby code loader supporting both autoloading and eager loading. It’s commonly associated with Rails, but can be used without it too.

Akshay Khot

Wandering in CRuby: An Introduction to Objects and Classes — The first in a promised series of posts digging into CRuby’s C-flavored parts to show how things are structured under the hood, starting with the basics of classes and objects.

Younes Serraj

🤖 Improve Password Length Validation for BCrypt Compatibility — This title sounds boring but amazingly this Rails PR has had the most clicks of any Ruby Weekly link so far in 2023. Why? It marked the first time ChatGPT had a huge influence upon a contribution to Rails.

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A Look at Some Advanced Active Record Concepts — A tour of concepts including locking records to avoid conflicts, using UUIDs as primary keys, fulltext search, using database views, and working with geospatial data. I suspect it might end up with a 2024 update for vector similarity queries.. 😁

Paweł Dąbrowski

It's Official: The Standard Ruby VS Code Extension — Standard is a Ruby style guide, linter and formatter created by TestDouble, and it now has a ‘distressingly fast’ VS Code extension to really up the ante for almost real-time code formatting.

Justin Searls (Test Double)

Gemfile of Dreams: The Libraries Evil Martians Use to Build Rails Apps — If martians (or, at least, the developers at Evil Martians) landed and demanded the perfect set of gems to build a Rails app, you could show them this detailed post and also learn about some new gems for your own apps.

Evil Martians

The Case Against Monkey Patching (From a Rails Core Team Member) — You seemed to enjoy Eileen making a solid case against monkey patching, what to do instead, and why refinements aren’t much better.

Eileen Uchitelle

Tips for 'Golfing' in Ruby — In developer parlance, ‘golfing’ is the task of squeezing down code to as few bytes as possible. There are lots of tricks for doing this in each language, but this Q&A covers a variety of ideas for making Ruby code as dense as possible. You might not want to use these tricks in production, though.. 😅

Stack Exchange

Looking Up Options for Rails Helpers — Three ways to find what you’re looking for.

Julia Chan

Rails 7.1's New picture_tag Helper — The new picture_tag helper (explained in this Rails pull request) is used to create picture tags in HTML.

Alkesh Ghorpade

RSS 0.3: Ruby's RSS and Atom Feed Library — ‘rss’ is one of the standard libraries that was “gemified” and is now updated and released independently of CRuby itself. v0.3 is a minor bump improving support for itunes namespaced elements in particular (such as used by many podcast feeds).

Ruby Team

rspec-sidekiq 4.0: Use RSpec for Testing Sidekiq Jobs — After being in a self-described ‘ownership limbo for a few years’, this library is now getting some TLC.

Will Spurgin

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Magnus 0.6: A Way to Build Gems with Rust — Magnus enables the creation of Ruby extensions using Rust by providing an interface via Ruby’s usual C API. You can also embed Ruby in a Rust program. Numerous gems are now implemented with Magnus, and thread safety has been improved with this release, among other improvements.

Mat Sadler

acli 0.6: A Command Line Client for Action Cable — Interesting because it’s an mruby app and because it lets you play with Action Cable channels in an easier way.

Vladimir Dementyev

Rails Brotli Cache 0.4.6: A Drop-in Enhancement for Rails' Cache — Brotli is a data compression algorithm developed by Google, and you can take advantage of its improvements by slotting it into your Rails app.

Paweł Urbanek