--- title: "The state of Ruby HTTP clients" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 674 published_at: "2023-10-19" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/674" --- Plus magic link auth for Rails apps, Postgres goodies in Rails 7.1, and Ruby 3.3's overlap? method. | #​674 — October 19, 2023 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/674) SUPPORT UKRAINE Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/rnb3xb69n6gxwxlozna9.jpg)](https://github.com/mikker/passwordless) [Passwordless 1.0: Magic Link Auth for Rails Apps](https://github.com/mikker/passwordless) — A system to add password-free ‘magic link’ style authentication to your Rails apps. _“This major release .. changes a lot of things and it is almost guaranteed that you will need to change your code to upgrade to this version.”_ Luckily, there’s [an upgrade guide](https://github.com/mikker/passwordless/blob/master/docs/upgrading_to_1_0.md). Mikkel Malmberg [The State of Ruby HTTP Clients in 2023](https://honeyryderchuck.gitlab.io/2023/10/15/state-of-ruby-http-clients-use-httpx.html) — The creator of [httpx](https://honeyryderchuck.gitlab.io/httpx/) does an extensive survey of the world of Ruby HTTP client libraries, compares their functionality, and concludes that (unsurprisingly?) his is best. Nonetheless, this is a _very_ thorough comparison and worth a look. If you’re short for time, [the feature comparison table](https://honeyryderchuck.gitlab.io/2023/10/15/state-of-ruby-http-clients-use-httpx.html#features) is what you need. Tiago Honeyryder [Ruvy: A Ruby to WebAssembly Toolchain](https://shopify.engineering/introducing-ruvy) — Built on top of [ruby.wasm](https://github.com/ruby/ruby.wasm), Ruvy is a toolchain that takes Ruby code and creates WebAssembly modules to execute it. This makes it easier to distribute a Ruby program in a way that WASM runtimes (such as [Wasmtime](https://wasmtime.dev/)) can use. Jeff Charles (Shopify) **IN BRIEF:** - 🧵 Koichi Sasada has commited [a M:N thread scheduler for ractors](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19842) to Ruby. The main advantage is the potential to create huge numbers of Ruby threads or ractors without needing an equally large number of native threads to handle them. - 📰 Ruby Central has published [its latest monthly update.](https://rubycentral.org/news/september-2023-monthly-update/) They remind us that [RubyConf 2023](https://rubyconf.org/register) registration is still open, there have been new releases of RubyGems and Bundler, and [they're hard at work upgrading](https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/52) Rubygems․org from Postgres 11 to 15. - ❓ Would you like Matz to answer a question for you in his RubyConf 2023 keynote? [Here's your chance](https://rubycentral.org/news/get-your-question-answered-by-matz-at-rubyconf-2023/). - 🔠 Did you know there's [a GUI Wordle implementation written in Ruby?](https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2023/10/glimmer-wordle-115.html) It uses the [Glimmer](https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer) framework. [Ruby Methods with a (*) Signature](https://stackoverflow.com/q/77320479/3951) — Did you know that `def method_name(*)` is valid code? If not, this is for you – it’s been valid since Ruby 2.7. Stack Overflow [The Postgres Goodies in Rails 7.1](https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-goodies-in-ruby-on-rails-7-1) — There are lots of new features on offer for Postgres users, including async queries, composite primary keys, native support for CTEs, unlogged tables, and syntax normalization. Christopher Winslett (Crunchy Data) [Ruby 3.3 Introduces Range `overlap?` Method](https://www.shakacode.com/blog/ruby-3-3-introduces-range-overlap-method/) — Another Rails method makes it to core (in slightly renamed form) causing the two to…ahem…overlap a bit more…? Alkesh Ghorpade [Why Is It Sooooo Hard for People to Work Together?](https://link.testdouble.com/bring-people-together) — Most software problems are people problems. We help bring people together to solve tough problems. [Find out more](https://link.testdouble.com/bring-people-together). 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The JRuby Team [Barley: A Simple and Fast ActiveModel JSON Serializer](https://github.com/moskitohero/barley) — ‘Cereal’-ize (get it?) your ActiveModel objects into flat hashes with a versatile DSL, and with caching baked in. The [latest version](https://github.com/MoskitoHero/barley/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v040-2023-10-19) adds a type-checking option to your attributes. Cédric Delalande [Never Stop Learning and Work #LikeABosch](https://www.bosch.com/careers/why-bosch/growth-and-development/?utm_campaignid=ruby&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=wlab&utm_term=secondary&utm_content=learning) — At Bosch, you always keep growing. Upskill yourself into countless new roles, positions and opportunities. [Learn more](https://www.bosch.com/careers/why-bosch/growth-and-development/?utm_campaignid=ruby&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=wlab&utm_term=secondary&utm_content=learning). 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