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Introducing Rubydex Linter: Structural Checks for Ruby Projects — Rubydex, a static analysis engine for Ruby, now has a built-in linter for cross-file, project-level structural rules, like “no class may include both of these mixins”. Shopify has already used it to replace numerous long-running tests with 20+ such rules to check its whole monolith in under a minute.

Stan Lo

Converting a Block Interface to start/stop Methods with a Fiber — You might reach for a thread to handle this problem, but fibers can get you there with less plumbing and overhead.

Ben Sheldon

Beyond ORMs: Why Sequel's Original Creator Now Writes Plain SQL — The original creator of Sequel (before Jeremy Evans took the reins) argues most apps only need a few dozen queries, so why use a DSL when you can write SQL queries in a per-entity ‘store’ class instead?

Sharon Rosner

How Compliant is Psych? How Much Better Is libfyaml? — Psych, Ruby’s YAML parser, added an experimental libfyaml backend offering stricter YAML 1.2 support. Here’s a test-suite comparison plus a tour of Psych’s YAML edge cases.

David Berube

🚨 Rails 7.2 is Already EOL; 8.0 is Nov 7. What’s Your Exposure? — We scan every image, runtime, and K8s workload for CVEs, prioritize by CISA KEV, and manage your risk. Let's talk!

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json 3.0: The JSON Gem Gets a Big Clean-Up — JSON.load and JSON.dump are now safe by default with the removal of create_additions, plus lots of cleanup (no more global mutable defaults, which were blocking Ractor). However, v3.0 breaks current Rails releases so pin json < 3 for now.

Jean Boussier

📊 SimpleCov 1.2: Per-Test Attribution and Production Coverage — The code coverage tool can now attribute coverage to individual tests, rerun only affected tests on save, cover views (ERB/Haml/Slim), and monitor coverage on production traffic to find code that’s not getting used.

Erik Berlin

Rails Monitoring That Never Stops at the Cap. No Overage Invoices — Errors, traces, Sidekiq, hosts and logs in one gem. Unlimited users, one bill. 30-day free trial, no card.

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Grape 4.0: The Opinionated REST-like API Framework — Grape can run on Rack or be pulled into existing Rails or Sinatra apps, say, and provides a DSL specifically to build RESTful APIs. v4.0 is much faster than before, adds HTTP QUERY support, and removes deprecations.

Doubrovkine, Proulx, et al.

WhatLanguage 2.1: Natural Language Detection for 160+ Languages — No-dependency Unicode and statistics-based text language detection for strings. v2.1 improves detection for short texts and handles texts with mixed scripts better.

Peter Cooper