DHH and RailsConf Go Their Separate Ways (and Some Rails Core Members Step Back) — This is a complicated story but The New Stack attempts to tie some delicate threads together here. DHH, the original creator of Rails, wrote a post called No RailsConf summing up various Rails developments in 2021, before taking umbrage with a decision to not grant him the full main keynote session at RailsConf (as well as the removal of the 'web3' track). Unsurprisingly this has kicked off a lot of conversations in the community, and as a consequence, some core team members have stepped back or resigned.

Mike Melanson (The New Stack)

Bridgetown 1.0: A Modern Ruby (JAMstack) Web Framework — Bridgetown is a Ruby-based static-site generator ‘grown on the fertile soil of Rails and Jekyll’. It comes with a lot out of the box and offers much flexibility whether through template engines, components, plugins, or its zero-config build system if you want to go heavy on the JS. GitHub repo here. If you want to hear more about this release, the project’s creator was on last week’s Remote Ruby podcast.

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🇺🇦 A Rubyist in Ukraine Appeals to the Ruby Community — Did you know the popular Ruby Changes (a.k.a. Ruby Changelog) project is maintained by a Ukrainian Rubyist? He has a message to share about the invasion and how you can help by showing support, whether by words or actions. We have donated and will continue to do so. In related news, GitHub has also shared its response to the war.

Victor Shepelev

On Abstraction in Rails — There’s nothing that can’t be fixed by another level of abstraction, right? Jason cooks up this look at making better abstractions in Rails by picking on a couple of ‘anti-examples’ in public codebases.

Jason Swett

Rails 7.0.2.3, 6.1.4.7, 6.0.4.7, and 5.2.6.3 Released — As you can probably tell by the cumbersome version numbers, these are small security releases. They fix a possible code injection vulnerability with Active Storage if you are using image_processing and mini_magick.

Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson

How GitLab Automatically Fixed 1000s of Ruby 2.7 Deprecation Warnings — Warnings were added in Ruby 2.7 to prepare for a syntax change in Ruby 3.0, and GitLab was suddenly inundated with thousands of such warnings that they wanted to resolve. The fix involved Rubocop and Shopify’s Deprecation Toolkit.

Thong Kuah (GitLab)

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Mocking JavaScript Requests During Tests — Tools like VCR can be used to mock requests performed by your Ruby code, but what about requests initiated by front-end JavaScript?

Ariel Juodziukynas

Tantiny: Tiny Rust-Powered Full-Text Search for Ruby — Tantivy is a Lucene-inspired full-text search engine written in Rust and Tantiny brings its power to us in Ruby.

Alexander Baygeldin

Extralite: An Extra-Lightweight Gem for Working with SQLite3 — Sharon has been putting a lot of work into this handy library which now supports prepared statements and includes SQLite 3.38.0 (which itself introduced some handy new operators for working with JSON columns).

Sharon Rosner

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Artemis 0.7: A GraphQL Client for Rails That's Quick to Start Using — “You’ll never have to make trivial decisions or spend time on boring setup. Start making a GraphQL request in literally 30s.” Now supports Ruby 3 and Rails 7, too.

Yuki Nishijima

rails-pg-extras 4.0: PostgreSQL Performance Insights for Rails Devs — This plugin lets you get quick info about locks, index usage, buffer cache hit ratios, vacuum stats and more.

Paweł Urbanek

ByStar: Query Active Record and Mongoid Objects Based on Time — Adds convenience methods like between_times, before, at_time and after.

Ryan Bigg