--- title: "RubyKaigi direct to your living room" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 717 published_at: "2024-08-29" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/717" --- Plus a DSL for making SVGs, an easy way to make SQL queries, and 'png' gets its first update in 9 years. | #​717 — August 29, 2024 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/717) Together with [![Honeybadger\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_600,h_100/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/jxeurjkyc4lup8ge7luq.png)](https://www.honeybadger.io/tour/logging-observability/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2024-08-29-rubyweekly-primary) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/gvx1rses6gxnoc216fm4.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbFmgWm555yYCwDIqMGoZemrsITes-9mZ#rubykaigi2024) ▶[The RubyKaigi 2024 Talks](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbFmgWm555yYCwDIqMGoZemrsITes-9mZ#rubykaigi2024) — RubyKaigi, essentially Ruby’s ‘home’ conference in Japan, took place in May, and now you can enjoy it from wherever you are. With a mix of Japanese and English language talks, there are some great talks worth your time, including Vinicius Stock on [the state of Ruby dev tooling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhp04EwmIjo&list=PLbFmgWm555yYCwDIqMGoZemrsITes-9mZ&index=6&t=3s), Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert on [breaking the Ruby performance barrier](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf5V02QNMnA&list=PLbFmgWm555yYCwDIqMGoZemrsITes-9mZ&index=5), Koichi Sasada [on Ractors](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzuNr0VnuKM&list=PLbFmgWm555yYCwDIqMGoZemrsITes-9mZ&index=14), Takashi Kokubun explaining [how YJIT makes Rails faster](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osK8F__0FVI&list=PLbFmgWm555yYCwDIqMGoZemrsITes-9mZ&index=22), and Emma Haruka Iwao showing off Ruby’s role in [a world record Pi-calculation attempt.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvaX-3vvNMA&list=PLbFmgWm555yYCwDIqMGoZemrsITes-9mZ&index=50) YouTube 💡 If you've got the time, there's also [an interesting hour-long panel session](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26sbpaGbU-0&list=PLbFmgWm555yYCwDIqMGoZemrsITes-9mZ&index=7&t=6s) with the team of Ruby committers answering questions about Ruby and its implementation. 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It's early days and the changes are subtle, but it's a start. - 📅 [The schedule for RubyConf 2024](https://rubyconf.org/schedule/), taking place in Chicago this November, is now live. - 🎙️ Obie Fernandez went on the _Maintainable Software Podcast_ to talk about [the role of AI in modern development](https://maintainable.fm/episodes/obie-fernandez-pioneering-ai-in-ruby-on-rails-development), particularly from a Ruby perspective. - Heroku introduced the idea of [twelve-factor app methodology](https://12factor.net/) over a decade ago, and now [they want your help in modernizing it](https://blog.heroku.com/updating-twelve-factor-call-for-participation). [How to Structure Your Rails Views and Partials for More Maintainable Code](https://garrettdimon.com/journal/posts/erb-partials-helpers-and-rails) — A look at the balances and tradeoffs to be made when determining what goes where in your views, and when to use full views versus partials. Garrett Dimon [Supercharge Your Rails Logs with Tags](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/supercharge-your-rails-logs-with-tags) — Rails logs can be hard to search, but you can introduce _tags_ to add context and quickly filter to get what you need. Justin Toniazzo (Thoughtbot) [Inside the Decision Room: How Standard Ruby Updates Its Rules 🤔](https://link.testdouble.com/vqq) — Test Double curates Rubocop rules each month to boost readability and reduce errors—who keeps Standard updated and how. Test Double sponsor 📄 [How to Save a 'Recently Viewed' List of Pages with Stimulus and `localStorage`](https://codewithrails.com/how-to-save-a-recently-viewed-list-of-pages-with-stimulus-and-localstorage) Simon Chiu 📄 [An Introduction to Omakub, DHH's Curated Ubuntu Environment](https://thenewstack.io/introduction-to-omakub-a-curated-ubuntu-environment-by-dhh/) David Eastman 📄 [13 Years of Building Infrastructure Control Planes in Ruby](https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/building-infrastructure-control-planes-in-ruby) Daniel Farina 📄 [Top Ten `git` Tips and Tricks](https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/git-tricks/) Julie Kent 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/t1ffmpvarc2apath4bcr.jpg)](https://victor.dannyb.co/) [Victor 0.5: A Ruby DSL for Building SVG Images](https://victor.dannyb.co/) — Much as there are libraries to construct XML or HTML using Ruby code, this is for creating vector graphics. Write Ruby, save SVG. The [docs](https://victor.dannyb.co/usage-patterns/component/) have a variety of examples of its power, including rendering a checkers board in an object oriented way. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/DannyBen/victor) Danny Ben Shitrit [Allgood: A Health Check Page for Your Rails App](https://github.com/rameerez/allgood) — Quickly add a `/healthcheck` page to a Rails app that shows simple things like database and Redis connectivity, disk space and memory usage, etc. Javi Rameerez [Rails + AI: Turn Ideas into Apps. Book a Meeting](https://reinteractive.com/ai-proof-of-concept) — Struggling with AI integration in Rails? We use (OpenAI, Claude, AWS Bedrock etc) to build amazing Rails apps. Let's discuss. reinteractive::Custom AI integrations with RoR sponsor [MiniSql: A Minimal, Safe SQL Executor for Postgres and SQLite](https://github.com/discourse/mini_sql) — Makes things nicer if you’re using `pg` or SQLite. If you get tangled up in the occasionally crufty native APIs for those, this could help ease things a bit. Discourse [Pundit 2.4 Released: Pure Ruby Authorization Library](https://github.com/varvet/pundit) — A set of helpers to guide you in using regular Ruby classes and OO design patterns to build robust and scalable authorization systems. Varvet [ActionMailer Balancer 1.1: Send Mail Through One of Several Methods](https://github.com/railsware/actionmailer-balancer) — If you need to migrate to a new mail provider or otherwise want to spread load between multiple providers, this could be a big help. Railsware [Vacuum 4.2: Amazon Product Advertising API Client](https://github.com/hakanensari/vacuum) — Amazon’s [Product Advertising API](https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/) lets you obtain Amazon product prices, details, etc. via an API. Hakan Ensari - [png 1.3.0](https://www.zenspider.com/releases/2024/08/png-version-1-3-0-has-been-released.html) – An 'almost-pure-Ruby' PNG library. The first update in 9 years, but I've used it a fair few times and it's pretty solid. - [Activerecord-Import 1.8](https://github.com/zdennis/activerecord-import) – For bulk insertion of data using ActiveRecord. - [ViewComponent 3.14](https://github.com/ViewComponent/view_component/releases/tag/v3.14.0) – Build encapsulated view components in Rails. - [Ruby CSS Parser 1.19](https://github.com/premailer/css_parser) – Load, parse and cascade CSS rule sets. - [minitest-spec-rails 7.3](https://github.com/metaskills/minitest-spec-rails) – Make Rails use MiniTest::Spec. - [Rage 1.9](https://github.com/rage-rb/rage/releases/tag/v1.9.0) – HTTP API framework compatible with Rails. - [Gemsmith 22.4](https://github.com/bkuhlmann/gemsmith) – CLI tool for smithing Ruby gems. - [ruby-git 2.2](https://github.com/ruby-git/ruby-git) – Wraps calls to the `git`command. - [Rails 7.2.1](https://rubyonrails.org/2024/8/22/Rails-7-2-1-has-been-released) and [Rails 7.1.4](https://rubyonrails.org/2024/8/22/Rails-7-1-4-has-been-released) - [RubyGems 3.5.18](https://blog.rubygems.org/2024/08/26/3.5.18-released.html) Jobs [Principal Full-Stack Rails Engineer (Remote)](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3868476988/) — Ruby FinTech w +10yr Track Record. 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