---
title: "Ruby's method methodology"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 708
published_at: "2024-06-20"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/708"
---

Plus refactoring transaction blocks with end-less methods. |        

#​708 — June 20, 2024 

[Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/708)  

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[The Design Decisions and Evolution of Method Definitions](https://zverok.space/blog/2024-06-14-method-evolution.html) — If you enjoyed Victor’s series of posts digging into Ruby syntax last year ([found here](https://zverok.space/writing/)), 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   

▶[SaaS on Rails on PostgreSQL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwXJ4s2pw1A) — A 25-minute talk given at last week’s [POSETTE](https://www.citusdata.com/posette/2024/) Postgres conference flying through many of the considerations and techniques involved in using and scaling the use of Postgres when building modern Rails apps. 

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[Introducing a `cd` Command to IRB](https://github.com/ruby/irb/pull/971) — While not a complete port of the popular [Pry](https://pry.github.io/) 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   

- 💬 [An interview with Homebrew's maintainer Mike McQuaid](https://onceamaintainer.substack.com/p/once-a-maintainer-mike-mcquaid), including his history with Ruby.
- 📰 Gift Egwuenu is back with [the latest monthly update of what's new with RubyGems](https://blog.rubygems.org/2024/06/17/may-rubygems-updates.html) and RubyGems․org.  

📄 Articles, Tutorials & Videos  

[Refactoring Transaction Blocks with `end`-Less Methods](https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/refactoring-transaction-blocks-with-the-endless-method) — Two weeks ago, Lucian gave us a tour of [Ruby’s `end`-less methods](https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/endless-method-a-quick-intro). Now, he shows us a specific use case, based upon making minor improvements to two Rails apps. 

Lucian Ghinda   

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[So We've Got a Memory Leak...](https://stevenharman.net/so-we-have-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   

💡 In related news, v1.0.2 of the [MemoryProfiler gem](https://github.com/SamSaffron/memory_profiler) has just been released.  

📄 [Running Rails System Tests with Playwright Instead of Selenium](https://justin.searls.co/posts/running-rails-system-tests-with-playwright-instead-of-selenium/) Justin Searls 

📄 [Rails Authentication: Gems vs. Recipes vs. Generators](https://masilotti.com/rails-authentication/) Joe Masilotti 

📄 [`ActiveStorage::Blob#compose` Supports Custom Blob Key in Rails 7.2](https://blog.saeloun.com/2024/06/11/rails-7-2-support-custom-blob-key/) Jijo Bose 

📄 [UUIDv7 Implemented in 20 Languages](https://antonz.org/uuidv7/) – Surprisingly short and sweet. Anton Zhiyanov  

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Jeanine Adkisson   

[command_kit: A Toolkit for Building Robust CLI Commands](https://github.com/postmodern/command_kit.rb) — 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. 

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[Sunspot: Solr-Powered Search for Ruby Objects](https://github.com/sunspot/sunspot) — _“Provides a simple, intuitive, expressive DSL backed by powerful features for indexing objects and searching for them.”_ 

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- [Kamal 1.7](https://github.com/basecamp/kamal) – The container-based app deployer. Kamal's configuration is now validated and unknown keys will raise errors.
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- [Grape 2.1](https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape) – Opinionated framework for creating REST-like APIs.[Changelog.](https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#210-20240615)
- [counter_culture 3.6](https://github.com/magnusvk/counter_culture) – Turbo-charged counter caches for Rails apps.  

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- [Forme 2.6](https://github.com/jeremyevans/forme) – HTML form builder library _(above)._
- [Erubi 1.13](https://github.com/jeremyevans/erubi) – Small ERB implementation / simplified fork of Erubis.
- [Tmuxinator 3.3](https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator) – Manage complex `tmux` sessions easily.
- [Devise::OTP 0.7](https://github.com/wmlele/devise-otp) – Two-factor auth extension for Devise.
- [HTTP-2 0.12](https://github.com/igrigorik/http-2) – Pure Ruby implementation of HTTP/2.
- [RubyGems 3.5.13](https://blog.rubygems.org/2024/06/14/3.5.13-released.html)
- [minitest 5.24.0](https://www.zenspider.com/releases/2024/06/minitest-version-5-24-0-has-been-released.html)    

**🤖 QUICK NOTE** 

Next week, I'm attending the [_AI Engineer World's Fair_](https://www.ai.engineer/worldsfair) and look forward to seeing if any of the [hopes for Ruby to play a role in the future of AI engineering](https://obie.medium.com/the-future-of-ruby-and-rails-in-the-age-of-ai-8f1acea31bc2) are coming to fruition! 

It's might be a bit late to attend in person unless you're based in SF (we [have a ticket discount if you can](https://ti.to/software-3/ai-engineer-worlds-fair/discount/COOPERPRESS), though) but you can [subscribe to the AI Engineer YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@aiDotEngineer) to be notified when the livestreams go live next Wednesday and Thursday. 

If you do happen to be there, come and say hi, or [follow me on X/Twitter](https://x.com/cooperx86) for updates :-) 

_— Peter Cooper, your editor_         

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