The Performance Impact of Memoization on Modern Ruby — A fantastic introduction to the ‘object shapes’ optimization introduced in Ruby 3.2, before looking at how a common memoization technique adversely affects it, as well as the ways both implementers and developers can begin to mitigate the issue.

Jean Boussier

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Tanakai: A Web Scraping Framework for Ruby — Kimurai was a scraping framework that seemingly hibernated a few years ago, but Tanakai is an up-to-date fork that supports Ruby 3+, Cuprite, and lets you work with headless browsers to scrape and interact with modern sites, even those rendered with JavaScript.

Glauco Custódio

Effects of Pitchfork Reforking on Shopify’s Monolith — A year ago, we featured Pitchfork, a new HTTP server from Shopify focusing on low latency and memory use. One way it accomplishes this is through reforking; this post shares metrics showing off how much Shopify has benefitted.

Jean Boussier

The Future of Full-Stack Rails: Turbo Morph Drive — The forthcoming Turbo 8 will include DOM “morphing,” a way to more elegantly take a DOM tree from one state to another, providing a smoother UX. This article (and its sequel) implements morphing in a Rails 7.1/Turbo 7 app to give you a feel for the future.

Vladimir Dementyev

Better Forms with Superform — Superform is another customizable form helper for Rails, but this one is built on Phlex, so the forms should be easier to test. Superform offers a lot, including a better way to handle strong parameters that will prevent errors because you forgot to update the controller.

Brad Gessler

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How to Skip All Callbacks for All Models in Rails — Using ActiveRecord::Suppressor, conditional callbacks, or patch ApplicationRecord to skip Rails callbacks.

Lucian Ghinda

Advanced Usages of Action Policy for Rails — A follow-up to a post we linked two weeks ago, this dives deeper into caching, pre-checks, and more advanced techniques in the new access control framework.

Aestimo Kirina (AppSignal)

Opal 1.8: The Ruby to JavaScript Compiler — The latest version of the popular Ruby to JavaScript transpiler now bridges Ruby hashes to JavaScript Map objects, and introduces performance improvements across the board. Project homepage.

Elia Schito, Adam Beynon, et al.

FruitJuice: Send Background Jobs From Ruby to Crystal — Mosquito is a Crystal-focused background job runner and FruitJuice can be used in Ruby apps to enqueue jobs on to it – handy if you want to write your background jobs in Crystal for whatever reason (CPU-heavy work, say).

Seth T.

Fixed Price Monthly Code Maintenance for Rails Apps — No time to do those small but critical updates and features? CodeCare will take care of necessary patches, bug fixes, upgrades and ongoing improvements for your app.

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RuboCop Minitest: Code Style Checking for Minitest Files — A RuboCop extension focused on enforcing best practices and coding conventions, inspired by the Minitest Style Guide.

RuboCop Team