--- title: "DHH is screencasting again" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 728 published_at: "2024-11-21" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/728" --- Plus Sinatra 4.1, 3D rendering, and a way to 'embiggen' short URLs. | #​728 — November 21, 2024 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/728) 🦃 **As it's Thanksgiving next week, we're taking a break.** We don't celebrate it in our country, but we know many of you do, so it seemed a good time for a rest. We'll be back on Thursday, December 5. __ _Your editor, Peter Cooper_ Together with [![reinteractive\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_900,h_186/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:9/goq5p4n0bj1gcxvxkfel.png)](https://reinteractive.com/service/code-care) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/g6r0b3n5ilyxufgm5bbz.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Hw9P1iZfQ) ▶[Rails 8: The Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Hw9P1iZfQ) — Whether you love or loathe Rails, DHH’s 2005 [▶️ ‘build a blog in 15 minutes’ screencast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY) introduced many of us to Ruby and Rails’ potential. Here’s DHH’s take for the Rails 8 generation. The usual scaffolding is there, but 20 years later we get a serving of JavaScript, deployment, and authentication too. _(30 minutes.)_ David Heinemeier Hansson 🏪 In other DHH news, [he's joined Shopify's board of directors.](https://www.shopify.com/news/david-heinemeier-hansson-board) [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/8fddfa5c.png)](https://reinteractive.com/service/code-care) [Fixed Price Monthly Code Maintenance for Rails Apps](https://reinteractive.com/service/code-care) — No time to do those small but critical updates and features? CodeCare will take care of necessary tweaks, bug fixes, upgrades and ongoing improvements for your app. reinteractive / CodeCare sponsor |> [An Attempt at Elixir-like Pipes in Ruby](https://zverok.space/blog/2024-11-16-elixir-pipes.html) — Numerous attempts have been made to bring a pipeline operator to Ruby. A newly added operator in Python inspired Victor to take another shot at it using a little AST transformation. It probably still won’t make core, but this is the sort of Ruby experimentation we all love to see. Victor Shepelev [RubyGems Adds New _Maintainer_ Role](https://blog.rubygems.org/2024/11/07/maintainer-role.html) — Previously, you either ‘owned’ a gem and could publish new versions or you did not and could not. The new “maintainer” role lands in the middle, letting people publish new versions of a gem without necessarily _owning_ it. A good way to improve security on larger projects with numerous maintainers. Colby Swandale (RubyGems) **IN BRIEF:** - [RubyConf](https://rubyconf.org/) took place last week and Kevin Murphy has put together [a roundup of the event](https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/rubyconf-2024-recap/) including lots of photos. - 📺 Would you like to see Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson hacking together with Sidekiq's Mike Perham? [▶️ Here's your background watching for the day.](https://www.youtube.com/live/Ze5obp0r1a4) - 📗 Sandi Metz's [99 Bottles of OOP](https://sandimetz.com/99bottles) is a popular guide to object orientation in the Ruby world, and she's just released a Python version, if you ever play that side of the tracks. - 💜 [RIP to Thomas E. Kurtz](https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/), the inventor of the BASIC programming language which undoubtedly had an indirect influence on Ruby. - Gift Egwuenu checks in with her [monthly update of RubyGems news.](https://blog.rubygems.org/2024/11/20/october-rubygems-updates.html) [Securing Ruby’s Future: How Ruby Central is Strengthening Security](https://rubycentral.org/news/securing-rubys-future-how-ruby-central-is-strengthening-security/) — _Ruby Central_ runs [RubyGems.org](https://rubygems.org/), so often sits between developers and nefarious entities looking to trick us. 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[Full changelog.](https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md) Sinatra Team [Pry 0.15: The IRB Alternative / Runtime Developer Console](https://pry.github.io/) — Despite the many improvements made to IRB in recent years, Pry remains a popular alternative. [v0.15.0](https://github.com/pry/pry/releases/tag/v0.15.0) adds support for Ruby 3.3 and Reline. John Mair et al. [Automate Embedding Creation and Syncing in Postgres with pgai Vectorizer](https://github.com/timescale/pgai/) — 🚀 pgai Vectorizer automates embedding creation and syncing in Postgres with one SQL command—keeps embeddings updated, no tools needed. Timescale sponsor [Mittsu 0.5: A 3D Graphics Library for Ruby](https://github.com/danini-the-panini/mittsu) — A Three.js-inspired Ruby abstraction over OpenGL. Now with the ability to load STL models. Danielle Smith [Nokolexbor: A Faster Drop-in Replacement for Nokogiri](https://github.com/serpapi/nokolexbor) — A [Lexbor](https://lexbor.com/)-based HTML5 parser that claims to be _“5.2x faster at parsing HTML and up to 997x faster at CSS selectors.”_ SerpApi [TTY::Links 0.2: Hyperlinks in Your Terminal](https://github.com/piotrmurach/tty-link) — Test to see if a terminal supports hyperlinks and outputs them correctly if so. Piotr Murach 📰 Classifieds 😅 Thinking about a big rewrite? Don’t do it! [Here’s why](https://link.testdouble.com/865). --- [Hookdeck](https://hookdeck.com/?ref=rubyweekly-728): An alternative to Amazon API Gateway + Lambda + SQS. With local dev, debugging, and observability built-in. --- 🚀 [Need an Action Plan to Upgrade to the latest Rails and Ruby?](https://go.fastruby.io/roadmap) Know how long it will take before you begin with a Roadmap from FastRuby.io. - [sqlite3-ruby 2.3](https://github.com/sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby/releases/tag/v2.3.0) – Now has the [SQLITE_DBPAGE](https://www.sqlite.org/dbpage.html) and [DBSTAT](https://sqlite.org/dbstat.html) extensions enabled by default to help you dig a little deeper. - [Devise::OTP 1.0](https://github.com/wmlele/devise-otp) – Two-factor auth extension for Devise. Now with Rails 8 support. - [Sidekiq::Throttled 1.5](https://github.com/ixti/sidekiq-throttled) – Concurrency and rate-limit throttling for Sidekiq. - [Ruby JSON Schema Validator 5.1](https://github.com/voxpupuli/json-schema) – Validate JSON objects against a schema. - 💌 [ValidEmail2 7.0](https://github.com/micke/valid_email2) – ActiveModel validation for email addresses. - [Rodauth 2.37](https://github.com/jeremyevans/rodauth) – Advanced auth framework. ([Changelog.](https://github.com/jeremyevans/rodauth/blob/master/CHANGELOG)) - [Embiggen 1.6](https://github.com/altmetric/embiggen) – A library to expand shortened URLs. - [Gems 1.3](https://github.com/rubygems/gems) – A wrapper for the [RubyGems.org](https://rubygems.org/) API. 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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