'Chilled Strings': Working Toward Frozen Strings by Default? — A language proposal that would introduce “chilled strings” that masquerade as frozen strings but issue a FrozenError warning when first modified (while allowing the modification). The goal here is to get closer to freezing all strings by default without immediate breakage.

Étienne Barrié and Jean Boussier

The Rails Guides Get a Facelift — Back in 2021, Rails 7.0 landed along with a major spring clean for the Rails brand and site design, but the ever useful Rails Guides didn't benefit from this. A new design and updated content is on the way and can be enjoyed via the Edge Guides for now.

The Rails Foundation

Get CodeCare Plus for Total Ruby on Rails Care — Streamline your Ruby on Rails projects with Get CodeCare Plus. Say goodbye to time-consuming bug fixes and stressful coding issues. Get CodeCare Plus for a seamless Ruby on Rails experience with expert support and bug resolution. Start today!

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TruffleRuby 24.0: Oracle's High Performance Ruby Implementation — Created by the late Chris Seaton, TruffleRuby is a Ruby implementation leaning on GraalVM and the broader Truffle framework, used for implementing a variety of dynamic languages, including Ruby. v24.0 adopts the Prism parser and boasts full Ruby 3.2 and 3.3 syntax support, including pattern matching.

Oracle

History of the end-less Method Syntax — An interesting look at the many proposals (both joking and serious) to rid Ruby of some/all instances of the end keyword. And, the end of ending ends may not be at an end, yet?

Lucian Ghinda

Don't Know How to Pick Indexes for Postgres + Rails? Try Out pganalyze — The new pganalyze Index Advisor 3.0 finds missing indexes across your query workload. Configurable, with easy drill-down into the underlying model.

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How to Deploy a Rails 7 App to Heroku — Gotta catch 'em all..

David Boureau

The Day Soft Deletes Caused Chaos — Using soft deletes where rows are marked as deleted without actually being deleted is often considered a best practice for data retention and integrity purposes, but Arjun is definitely not a fan..

Arjun Lall (Bemi)

Rails 8's allow_browser to Enforce Minimum Browser Version — This is an odd approach, given user agent strings frequently mean little these days, and it uses the wrong HTTP status code for the purpose as well..

Jijo Bose

Introducing props_template: A Jbuilder Alternative — Jbuilder is a popular Ruby DSL for creating JSON responses, but thoughtbot wanted more – they wanted layouts, more speed, and more flexibility, while keeping as close to Jbuilder as possible. Enter PropsTemplate…

Johny Ho (thoughtbot)

Faiss-Ruby: Efficient Similarity Search and Clustering — Faiss provides a way to efficiently search and cluster dense vectors.

Andrew Kane

Config 5.4: Add Multi-Environment Settings to Ruby Projects — Using simple YAML config files, this provides a mechanism for adding a settings/configuration features to Ruby apps of all types (not just Rails!)

Ruby Config

Zero Downtime Rails Version Updates Are Within Reach 🎉 — Don’t put off version updates. Later means never. Check out quick-read blogs and a talk for an incremental approach.

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ActiveRecord-Import 1.6: Bulk Data Insertion with ActiveRecord — Does some clever things like generate the minimal amount of SQL inserts by analyzing associations.

Zach Dennis

Grover: Transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs — Google Puppeteer and Chromium do the heavy lifting. (Worth a look for the mascot alone.. 😆)

Studiosity

VideoInfo 4.2: Get Video Info from Dailymotion, Vimeo, Wistia, and YouTube URLs — Grabs metadata relevant to the videos, such as duration, date, thumbnail URLs, etc. Now recognizes YouTube ‘live’ and ‘shorts’ videos.

Thibaud Guillaume-Gentil