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#​745 — April 3, 2025

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RubyUI 1.0: Reusable Copy-and-Paste Components for Rails Apps — Formerly known as PhlexUI, RubyUI is a collection of reusable Phlex-powered components you can generate or copy and paste into your apps. There’s full documentation, as well as a page for each of the 43 components on offer, covering things like badges, checkboxes, cards, sheets, and tables. GitHub repo.

RubyUI Team

How Ruby Makes Advanced CLI Options Easy — Ruby’s OptionParser standard library offers a straightforward way to work with command line options without pulling in any dependencies.

Justin Searls

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IN BRIEF:

Profiling Rails Apps with Rails Debugbar — Julien Bourdeau’s DebugBar gives you an extra way to get insights into what your Rails app is doing behind the scenes, directly from a toolbar in the browser. Akshay explains how to use it to find things worth fixing.

Akshay Khot

Hiding Unfinished Features in Rails — A quick and easy tip for adding a under_construction helper that hides features outside of the development environment.

Mintbit

🛤️ Don’t Let Tech Debt Stop You in Your Tracks — Hire engineers with 15 years of experience to keep your Ruby on Rails app up to date, stable, and secure.

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📄 Ultimate Guide to Server Hardening for Kamal Khash Sajadi

📄 More About How to Create a Data Class in Ruby Lucian Ghinda

📄 Sidekiq 8.0's Improvements to the Web UI Mike Perham

📄 How to Configure 'Sign In with Apple' in Rails 8 ...without Omniauth. Clayton

📄 Rails 8 Removes Channels From Default App Structure Prasanth Chaduvula

📄 How to Use Pry to Debug Ruby Apps Melissa Williams

🛠 Code & Tools

Nōdo: A Way to Call Node.js from Ruby — A mechanism for letting Ruby scripts make calls to Node.js-based functions via a Unix socket-based IPC approach. (We also learn that “ノード” means “node” in Japanese.)

Matthias Grosser

Rage 1.15: An HTTP API Framework Compatible with Rails — A high performance, fiber-based API-only Web framework that boasts compatibility with Rails. v1.15.0 introduces an OpenAPI Explorer for experimenting with Rage’s OpenAPI support without needing to set up a project first.

Roman Samoilov

bidi2pdf: Convert a URL to PDF using Ruby and Chrome — A proof of concept offering both a CLI and Ruby library interface to using Chrome to render PDFs of Web pages.

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📢  Elsewhere

A quick roundup of some other interesting updates or useful resources in the broader developer landscape:

  • If you fancy writing a blog post that might make it into Ruby Weekly, checking out How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read by Michael Lynch isn't a bad idea.. :-) (Then hit reply and tell us about it!)

  • ls-lint is a mature tool for linting file and directory names in projects.

  • Over in Node-land, Express 5.1 has been released and becomes the first 5.x release to be marked as latest on npm.

  • In other JavaScript news, React 19.1 has been released.

  • 🤖 If you haven't checked out Google's Gemini AI tool recently, it now supports generating HTML, JavaScript, and React code in a 'canvas' mode for building components on the fly.

  • If you've got any interest in functional programming, Bozhidar Batsov shares why F# is worth looking at. It's not as pretty as Ruby, IMHO, but certainly more readable than Haskell or Erlang!

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