--- title: "Turbocharging Puma with Thruster" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 694 published_at: "2024-03-14" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/694" --- Plus an IRB update, working with Hanami, and some Ruby events news. | #​694 — March 14, 2024 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/694) Together with [![Scout APM\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_1280,h_200/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:12/xqxv1kxso3cmbksqsbt5.png)](https://scoutapm.com/users/sign_up?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=3_14_24&utm_content=newsletter_ad) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/bxtm2dmdxgtpljatcfkl.jpg)](https://dev.37signals.com/thruster-released/) [37signals Open Sources _Thruster_](https://dev.37signals.com/thruster-released/) — First seen in Campfire, _Thruster_ is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy for production Rails deployments – it runs alongside Puma and offers HTTP/2, Caching, SSL via LetsEncrypt, and static file serving with compression, filling a similar role to Traefik or Caddy (like them, it’s [written in Go](https://github.com/basecamp/thruster)). 37signals [IRB 1.12.0 Released](https://github.com/ruby/irb/releases/tag/v1.12.0) — One advantage to various parts of Ruby being turned into separate gems is you can upgrade them _without_ upgrading Ruby itself, and IRB is certainly worth upgrading frequently. v1.12 introduces enhancements to the `help` command and IRB can now load `.irbrc` from multiple locations, such as from `~/.irbrc` _as well as_ project specific `.irbrc`s. 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There's [a CFP open until April 15](https://www.papercall.io/euruko2024), if you'd like to speak. - 📅 In other events news, [the RailsConf 2024 speakers](https://rubycentral.org/news/a-technical-and-practical-program-railsconf-2024-speakers-announced/) have been announced. - Last week, we mentioned that DHH was beginning to play with Windows – turns out he's now [decided to _commit_ to Windows](https://world.hey.com/dhh/committing-to-windows-2d6388fd). - It's great to see Dave Thomas (of _Pragmatic Programmers_ fame) back with [▶️ a 7 minute recollection](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AzqMr87gQ) of [▶️ his GOTO Amsterdam 2023 talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjJ6LvOU7q0) tackling Agile, making decisions in projects, and why to focus on things that are easy to change. - JetBrains has released [RubyMine 2024.1 Beta](https://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2024/03/rubymine-2024-1-beta-is-out/). 📕 Articles & Tutorials [What Does the Frozen String Literal Comment Do?](https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/what-does-frozen-string-literal-do-in-ruby/) — That is: `# frozen_string_literal: true`, as introduced in Ruby 2.3. 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Square [Rails Multisite 6.0: Multi Tenancy for Rails Apps](https://github.com/discourse/rails_multisite) — Want each (customer/user) hostname used with an app to have its own database? Extracted from Discourse. Sam Saffron - [Passwordless 1.5](https://github.com/mikker/passwordless) – Magic link auth for Rails apps. - [rspec-openapi 0.14](https://github.com/exoego/rspec-openapi) – Make OpenAPI schemas from RSpec request specs. - [Strong Migrations 1.8](https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations) – Catch unsafe migrations in dev. - [Rage 1.0](https://github.com/rage-rb/rage) – HTTP API framework compatible with Rails. - [Avo 3.5](https://avohq.io/releases/3.5.0) – Rails app building framework/CMS. - [Minitest 5.22.3](https://www.zenspider.com/releases/2024/03/minitest-version-5-22-3-has-been-released.html) Curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/cooperx86) and [Glenn Goodrich](https://twitter.com/ruprict). Published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). 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