--- title: "Recurring tasks come to Solid Queue" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 696 published_at: "2024-03-28" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/696" --- Plus creating Rails apps without Ruby installed, a Minitest experiment, and building neural networks from Ruby. | #​696 — March 28, 2024 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/696) Together with [![FastRuby.io\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_467,h_106/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:14/y65nyff19ylf5udphsq4.png)](https://go.fastruby.io/wxc) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/mtskxb8xyh7ars5bqcst.jpg)](https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2024-03-26-ruby-toolbox/) [14 Tools and Gems Every Ruby Developer Would Love](https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2024-03-26-ruby-toolbox/) — I wouldn’t usually feature a list-driven article but this has been a quiet week and it's a good one! Joé rounds up his favorite tools and gems of the moment, covering areas from email and databases to performance monitoring and analytics. All solid recommendations. Joé Dupuis [Solid Queue 0.3: The Active Job Backend Gains Recurring Jobs](https://github.com/rails/solid_queue) — [First introduced](https://dev.37signals.com/introducing-solid-queue/) just three months ago, Solid Queue is already a great way to run background jobs on modern Rails apps and [v0.3](https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/releases/tag/v0.3.0) gets even better by adding [support for cron-style recurring tasks](https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/pull/155). Ruby on Rails Project [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/2782b8fe.png)](https://go.fastruby.io/wxc) [Need to Upgrade Rails with Zero Downtime?](https://go.fastruby.io/wxc) — Ready for Rails 7.2? Top-notch engineering teams (from startups to Fortune 500 companies) trust [the FastRuby.io team](https://go.fastruby.io/7ho) in mission-critical upgrades. 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Baker demonstrates [how you might implement RSpec-style context helpers](https://gist.github.com/srbaker/a532f43df9de90f5fd9d600039b4eaea) for Minitest. - 📈 Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson is [working on optimizing delegates in Ruby](https://mastodon.social/@tenderlove/112130873612844986), targeting Ruby 3.4. - 📅 [Madison Ruby 2024](https://www.madisonruby.com/) takes place this August in Madison, Wisconsin. - 📅 [Red Dot Ruby Conference](https://reddotrubyconf.com/) makes its post-COVID return in Singapore this July. - 👍 Eric Berry has put together an ['Awesome Hotwire'](https://berry.sh/blog/awesome_hotwire) list of useful Hotwire related tutorials, libraries, and screencasts. - 👾 [The next Gosu Game Jam](https://itch.io/jam/gosu-game-jam-6) starts tomorrow. [Do You Tune Out Ruby Deprecation Warnings?](https://blog.arkency.com/do-you-tune-out-ruby-deprecation-warnings/) — In the middle of a project, it’s easy to overlook warnings, but you can tweak how they are reported. Piotr Jurewicz [Self-Service APM When You Want It. Superior Support When You Need It](https://scoutapm.com/users/sign_up?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=3_28_24&utm_content=newsletter_ad) — Scout APM is made for monitoring Ruby apps. Get all the APM insights and support you need from actual Rails engineers. Scout APM sponsor [Event Sourcing with Rails from Scratch](https://www.smily.com/engineering/event-sourcing-with-rails-from-scratch) — A practical code driven example. Oleg Borys [Brute-Forcing a 2FA System with Ruby](https://greg.molnar.io/blog/brute-forcing-2fa-with-ruby/) — This was to pass a made-up security exercise, not to actually break anything, but provides an example of how Ruby can appeal to cybersecurity professionals. Greg Molnar [Refactoring a Ruby Module Mixin into a Class](https://takeonrules.com/2024/03/20/refactoring-a-ruby-module-mixin-into-a-class/) Jeremy Friesen 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/ria6xvtl3jkva0due9li.jpg)](https://hotwirecombobox.com/) [HotwireCombobox: A Turbo + Stimulus Autocompleting Combobox](https://hotwirecombobox.com/) — Simple, sweet, and well explained on the homepage, complete with live demo. Designed for modern Rails 7 apps. [GitHub demo.](https://github.com/josefarias/hotwire_combobox) Jose Farias [RubyFann 2.0: Library for Interfacing with FANN (Fast Artificial Neural Network)](https://github.com/tangledpath/ruby-fann) — [FANN](https://github.com/libfann/fann) is an open-source C library for implementing multilayer neural networks. RubyFann provides the bindings so you can build and train your own neural networks entirely from Ruby. Steven Miers [Free Auth for 1 Million MAUs](https://workos.com/?utm_source=cpruby&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q12024) — WorkOS provides easy-to-use APIs for authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM. WorkOS sponsor [Noticed 2.2: Notifications for Rails Apps](https://github.com/excid3/noticed) — Supports email, Discord, Action Cable, Twilio, Firebase, Slack, and custom delivery methods. There’s [▶️ a 20-minute screencast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzX-aBEqnAc) covering how to integrate it with your app. Chris Oliver [Onigmo: A Ruby Wrapper for the Onigmo Regex Library](https://github.com/Shopify/onigmo) Shopify - [Liquid 5.5](https://shopify.github.io/liquid/) – Popular template language. [v5.5](https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/releases/tag/v5.5.0) is the first update in a long while. - [Receipts 2.4](https://github.com/excid3/receipts) – Easy receipts and invoices for Rails apps. ([Examples.](https://github.com/excid3/receipts/tree/main/examples)) - [Falcon 0.44](https://github.com/socketry/falcon) – Multiprocess, multi-fiber Rack-compatible HTTP server. - [Reline 0.5](https://github.com/ruby/reline/releases/tag/v0.5.0) – The modern 'readline'-compatible input library. - [Stripe::Rails 2.5](https://github.com/tansengming/stripe-rails) – A Rails engine for integrating Stripe. - [Rodauth 2.34](https://github.com/jeremyevans/rodauth) – The fantastic authentication framework. - [CSV 3.3](https://github.com/ruby/csv) – Bug fix release for the official CSV library. - [parallel_tests 4.6](https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests) – More cores == faster testing. - [RubyGems 3.5.7](https://blog.rubygems.org/2024/03/22/3.5.7-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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