Benchmarking Ruby Parsers — Prism is (almost certainly going to be) the new default parser in Ruby 3.4, but is it the best-performing option? Benoit looks at several candidates, including Ripper and ruby_parser, and gives us the good news that yes, Prism is fast!

Benoit Daloze

Ruby Video: An Index of ~4000 Ruby Talks — Over the past year, Ruby Video has brought together almost 4000 videos from over 2000 speakers and you’re encouraged to contribute your own too (though I'd be surprised if many talks remain to be found with these numbers!)

Adrien Poly et al.

How to Compare Postgres EXPLAIN Plans & Tune Slow Queries — Are slow Postgres queries impacting your Ruby app performance? Join this webinar to learn how to diagnose and tune them effectively. We'll use pganalyze to walk through how to compare plans & debug common scenarios like inefficient nested loops & missing indexes.

pganalyze sponsor

Next Generation Out-of-Band Garbage Collection — ‘Out of band’ garbage collection is when GC is performed outside of the time when a user request is being served. This yields latency improvements in many scenarios, since you won’t have the GC ‘stopping the world’ at critical points. It’s hard to get just right, though, but that isn’t stopping attempts to make it better.

Jean Boussier

Supercharge the One Person Framework with SQLite — A written version of Stephen Margheim’s ▶️ exciting Rails World talk about Rails 8’s enhancements when it comes to SQLite and how SQLite can truly supercharge Rails development at the scales most of us are working.

Stephen Margheim

How I Upgraded My Pet Project from Rails 7 to Rails 8 in 30 Minutes — Here’s a task a lot of us are likely to procrastinate about diligently do once the final version of Rails 8 lands.

Bohdan Pohorilets

Exploring Campfire's Tests — 37signals’ pay-once-host-yourself chat app provides a good look at how the canonical Rails shop builds things, so Kadu decided to check out its tests and found an elegantly simple approach.

Kadu Diógenes

GitHub Shortcut Commands That’ll Speed Up Your Code Reviews 💻 — Roundup of some of the best GitHub keyboard shortcuts that came up during a recent conversation on our dev team’s Slack.

Test Double sponsor

HexaPDF 1.0.0: Powerful PDF Generation from Ruby — Ruby’s arguably most versatile PDF creation and manipulation library reaches v1.0, and there are still many more features to come, says Thomas. You can check out numerous examples with code here. Note that HexaPDF is AGPL licensed with a commercial licence option.

Thomas Leitner

Rubocop Obsession: Cops for Higher-Level Concepts — The RuboCop linter is commonly used to raise the alarm on stylistic issues like long lines, indentation problems, and naming conventions. This goes a step further with code not broken into identifiable ‘paragraphs’, method ordering, and only testing public methods, among other things.

Jerome Dalbert

Fixed Price Monthly Code Maintenance for Rails Apps — No time to do those small but critical updates and features? CodeCare will take care of necessary tweaks, bug fixes, upgrades and ongoing improvements for your app.

reinteractive / CodeCare sponsor

sqlite3-ruby 2.2.0: The Ruby Bindings for SQLite3 — With v2.2 we get improved multiline SQL syntax errors, as well as being able to use URI filenames when ‘connecting’ to a SQLite database.

Sparkle Motion

Shale: Object Mapper and Serializer for Text Formats — A library for converting JSON, YAML, TOML, CSV and XML into Ruby data structures and back again. The homepage features many interactive examples worth checking out.

Kamil Giszczak