Down The Caching‑Hole? Adventures in 'HTTP Caching and Faraday' Land — It’s never good when you enable caching and performance gets worse. These cases often lead to long, forensic investigations that expose a previously unknown nuance and this case is no exception. “Off with their headers!”

Kryukov & Turner (Evil Martians)

Modernizing Einhorn: A Gem for Managing Forked Processes — Somehow I’d never come across Einhorn till now, but it started life as a Stripe-built gem for managing multiple copies of long-lived processes and now Sidekiq’s Mike Perham has inherited it (pretty much the biggest seal of approval a Ruby project could get) and taken it to a 1.0 release.

Mike Perham

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'Booleans Don't Exist in Ruby' — Sure, true and false exist and work well as high level representations, but under the hood, a lot is going on. Mike digs into a variety of areas to learn more including object identifiers, Ruby’s C underpinnings, and what third party libraries do.

Mike Burns

Value Object Semantics in Ruby — A short article covering how equality works for value objects along with what methods you need to be sure to implement to get the right behavior.

Joël Quenneville (thoughtbot)

A Practical Guide to Changing Code So You Can Understand It — Specifically, Daniel discusses three refactoring methods: Introduce Variable, Extract Method, and Rename.

Daniel Huss (TestDouble)

A Rubyist's Guide to Vite — Vite is the (another) latest shiny toy in JavaScript and frontend build tooling (but, to be fair, it’s pretty amazing). It uses ES module imports, it’s fast and setting it up with Rails is pretty easy thanks to some gems including vite_ruby/rails. (Note: This article dates from 2021, but Vite seems to be going from strength to strength lately, and Vite 3.0 just came out.)

Máximo Mussini

Ruby Transactional Notification Infrastructure Saves Engineering Time

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Why Ruby is More Readable than Python — We agree with the points made here, but we would, wouldn’t we?

Michael Karamuth

Bridgetown 1.1 (Belmont) Released: The Progressive Site Generator — Now with improved i18n support, Sass support within esbuild/PostCSS bundling, phrase highlighting in Markdown, and a brand new Jekyll to Bridgetown migration guide if you want to make the switch for your blog, say.

Jared White

SearchCop: Search Engine-Like Query Support for Active Record — Adds support for an easy to use search interface on top of AR models. It’s smarter than you might imagine and can handle using operators to query against columns – it’s not just for text. Can’t help but think I’d like to see some of these ideas become standard AR features!

Benjamin Vetter

Don’t Let Your Issue Tracker Be a Four-Letter Word. Use Shortcut — The best issue tracking software is one that software developers are actually happy to use.

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gem-compare 1.2: The RubyGems Plugin for Comparing Gem Versions — gem-compare is a RubyGems plugin that can compare gem versions at the source code level, particularly useful if you want to vet changes or see if updates make sense to you.

Mgr. Josef Strzibny

Redhot: REDux Pattern for HOTwire — A port of the Redux framework (popularly used with React) to ActiveRecord, enabling the tracking of actions and state for your models so you can easily undo and time travel while debugging.

Ivo Herweijer

Casting 1.0: Delegate Methods in Ruby and Preserve self — “Casting gives you real delegation that flattens your object structure compared to libraries like Delegate or Forwardable. With casting, you can implement your own decorators that will be so much simpler than using wrappers.”

Jim Gay