What We Can Learn From _why, The Long Lost Developer — GitHub has done a lovely feature about a Rubyist whose name you might have encountered: why the lucky stiff. _why was a prolific member of the Ruby community many years ago who wrote a popular introductory guide to the language, maintained several libraries, drew cartoons, and even wrote the foreword to my book for which I’ll be eternally grateful :-) _why is no longer in the Ruby scene(?) but their memory, work, and attitude live on.

GitHub ReadME Project

YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler for CRuby — The JIT future of Ruby is YJIT, which is based on concepts from this author’s Ph.D. thesis, so she has a great and enthusiastic perspective on YJIT’s past, current state, and future.

Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert (Shopify)

Shortcut Puts the 'Can' in Kanban and the Agile in Agile — Whether you're a startup that iterates quickly by giving engineers a free pallet of Red Bull, or a large org that has strict ship dates to hit, Shortcut is the ideal solution for task management, bug tracking, iteration planning, and reporting.

Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse.io) sponsor

YJIT Just-In-Time Compiler Merged into CRuby — A month ago we linked to the proposal to merge YJIT (mentioned above too) into CRuby/MRI but here’s the actual pull request. Fantastic progress.

Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert et al.

Ruby Central + Ruby Together == The Future — Ruby Central is a 20-year old organization that has been fundamental in organizing events like RubyConf and RailsConf, providing grants, supporting the RubyGems project, etc. and Ruby Together is a younger organization that has focused on funding the development of tools like Bundler and RubyGems. These great organizations, with their shared goals, have decided to come together.

Ruby Together

Detecting Early Returns from a Block — We included this link last week but the author changed the URL just after we sent.. so it was broken for most of you :-) So it’s here again in corrected form as I thought it was an interesting little technique.

Ben Sheldon

Optimistic Locking in Rails REST APIs — If you’re worried about losing data due to concurrent edits, Rails and ActiveRecord provide simple optimistic locking out of the box.

Karol Galanciak (AppSignal)

Spend Less Time Debugging and More Time Building with Scout APM — Scout is a lightweight, production-grade application monitoring service built for modern development teams. Just embed our agent in your application, we handle the rest.

Scout APM sponsor

Business Logic in Rails with Operators — Another approach on keeping logic out of models and controllers with some small variations on the Service Object theme.

Petr Hlavicka

A Series on Creating 'Wizards' in Rails Apps — We forgot to include this earlier in the year, but you may find it useful if you want to create a multi-step form experience powered by Hotwire and Turbo.

Jon Sullivan

Yake 0.4.0: A DSL for Writing AWS Lambda Handlers in Ruby — The selling point is it uses a Rake-like declarative syntax.

Alexander Mancevice

Closure Tree 7.4.0: Make Active Record Models Support Tree Hierarchies — Think things like tags, threaded comments, page graphs in CMSes, or tracking user referrals.

Matthew McEachen

RubyGems Trust Us as Their DNS Provider. Find Out Why You Should Too

DNSimple sponsor

Test::Unit 3.5: Ruby's Legacy Testing Library — I had no idea this was still being maintained and used, but it is.

Test::Unit Contributors