#728 — November 21, 2024 |
🦃 As it's Thanksgiving next week, we're taking a break. We don't celebrate it in our country, but we know many of you do, so it seemed a good time for a rest. We'll be back on Thursday, December 5. |
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Ruby Weekly |
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▶ Rails 8: The Demo — Whether you love or loathe Rails, DHH’s 2005 ▶️ ‘build a blog in 15 minutes’ screencast introduced many of us to Ruby and Rails’ potential. Here’s DHH’s take for the Rails 8 generation. The usual scaffolding is there, but 20 years later we get a serving of JavaScript, deployment, and authentication too. (30 minutes.) David Heinemeier Hansson |
🏪 In other DHH news, he's joined Shopify's board of directors. |
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 |
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|> An Attempt at Elixir-like Pipes in Ruby — Numerous attempts have been made to bring a pipeline operator to Ruby. A newly added operator in Python inspired Victor to take another shot at it using a little AST transformation. It probably still won’t make core, but this is the sort of Ruby experimentation we all love to see. Victor Shepelev |
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RubyGems Adds New Maintainer Role — Previously, you either ‘owned’ a gem and could publish new versions or you did not and could not. The new “maintainer” role lands in the middle, letting people publish new versions of a gem without necessarily owning it. A good way to improve security on larger projects with numerous maintainers. Colby Swandale (RubyGems) |
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IN BRIEF:
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Securing Ruby’s Future: How Ruby Central is Strengthening Security — Ruby Central runs RubyGems.org, so often sits between developers and nefarious entities looking to trick us. It takes a village of sponsors (thank you!) and Rubyists (thank you!), and they’ve been busy improving MFA and building a roadmap to more secure and verifiable gems. Ruby Central |
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WorkOS: Sell to Enterprises with a Few Lines of Code — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, offering flexible, easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and FGA in minutes instead of months. WorkOS sponsor |
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📄 Processing Slow Network Requests with Turbo and Active Model Steve Polito (Thoughtbot) ▶️ Helping Rails Developers Learn Postgres with Andrew Atkinson Talking Postgres Podcast 📄 Dissecting Bridgetown 2.0’s Signalize-based Fast Refresh Jared White 📄 Show All Running Apps on the Server with Kamal Josef Strzibny 📄 Subclassing STI Models in Rails Josef Strzibny |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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Sinatra 4.1: The Popular Ruby Webapp DSL — Now includes host authorization, Sinatra Team |
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Pry 0.15: The IRB Alternative / Runtime Developer Console — Despite the many improvements made to IRB in recent years, Pry remains a popular alternative. v0.15.0 adds support for Ruby 3.3 and Reline. John Mair et al. |
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Automate Embedding Creation and Syncing in Postgres with pgai Vectorizer — 🚀 pgai Vectorizer automates embedding creation and syncing in Postgres with one SQL command—keeps embeddings updated, no tools needed. Timescale sponsor |
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Mittsu 0.5: A 3D Graphics Library for Ruby — A Three.js-inspired Ruby abstraction over OpenGL. Now with the ability to load STL models. Danielle Smith |
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Nokolexbor: A Faster Drop-in Replacement for Nokogiri — A Lexbor-based HTML5 parser that claims to be “5.2x faster at parsing HTML and up to 997x faster at CSS selectors.” SerpApi |
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TTY::Links 0.2: Hyperlinks in Your Terminal — Test to see if a terminal supports hyperlinks and outputs them correctly if so. Piotr Murach |
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