The Design Decisions and Evolution of Method Definitions — If you enjoyed Victor’s series of posts digging into Ruby syntax last year (found here), he’s back with a new series studying Ruby language design decisions. He starts with a focus on method definitions and the myriad of features available when defining methods.

Victor Shepelev

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Introducing a cd Command to IRB — While not a complete port of the popular Pry command, this brings easier object introspection into IRB. It’s (mostly) built on top of popws and pushws, so more syntactic sugar than a new feature.

Stan Lo

Refactoring Transaction Blocks with end-Less Methods — Two weeks ago, Lucian gave us a tour of Ruby’s end-less methods. Now, he shows us a specific use case, based upon making minor improvements to two Rails apps.

Lucian Ghinda

Inertia.js in Rails: A New Era of Effortless Integration? — Inertia enables building “modern single-page React, Vue, and Svelte apps using classic server-side routing”. While its main target is PHP’s Laravel framework, it can integrate with Rails too, and help you bridge the SPA / HTML rendering divide.

Svyatoslav Kryukov and Travis Turner (Evil Martians)

🚀 Need an Action Plan to Upgrade to Rails 7.2 and Ruby 3.3? — The Roadmap by @FastRubyIO: Discover the work and effort it takes to upgrade and ensure security compliance.

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So We've Got a Memory Leak... — A neat post covering the thoughts and ideas that might arise when you encounter what appears to be a memory leak in an app, followed by the practical steps to actually take.

Steven Harman

Rouge 4.3: Pure Ruby Pygments-Compatible Syntax Highlighting — A long standing project that supports over 200 different languages, including Ruby, of course. Its HTML output is compatible with stylesheets designed for the popular Python-based Pygments highlighter. GitHub repo.

Jeanine Adkisson

command_kit: A Toolkit for Building Robust CLI Commands — Define commands for a CLI app using plain-old Ruby classes with options and arguments declared as attributes. command_kit then wires everything up in good UNIX / POSIX fashion and adds features like interactive input, terminal size detection, and man pages.

Postmodern

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MiniMagick: A Mini Replacement for RMagick — For when you don’t need the full power of RMagick and just want access to ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick’s command line features for resizing, rotating, converting, and inspecting images.

Corey Johnson

Sunspot: Solr-Powered Search for Ruby Objects — “Provides a simple, intuitive, expressive DSL backed by powerful features for indexing objects and searching for them.”

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