Ruby Evolution: New Ruby Features Added in 2.0 → 3.3 — First launched a couple of years ago covering up to Ruby 3.1, Victor’s handy resource covering the key changes to the Ruby language over the years now goes up to Ruby 3.3. A fantastic way to check your knowledge of modern Ruby features.

Victor Shepelev

Speeding Up Ruby by Rewriting C.. in Ruby? — A fascinating look at Ruby performance and how actually writing more of Ruby’s core implementation in Ruby itself can yield surprisingly large speedups thanks to how YJIT works (I seem to recall Rubinius had a similar thesis years ago). A lot of fun and a must read, IMO.

JP Camara

Log Everything, Ask Anything with Honeybadger — Paying for an APM you rarely use? Honeybadger Insights is a powerful query engine for your logs and application events. It's a bit like New Relic or DataDog but with just the good parts and a price you can afford. Check it out!

Honeybadger sponsor

Rails is Better 'Low Code' Than 'Low Code' — Radan plays out parallel story arcs for a ‘simple’ CRUD app that evolves new features and ultimately hits the low code ceiling. This thought piece provoked a rather lively Hacker News discussion.

Radan Skorić

Overriding Methods in Rails: A No-Code-Editing Approach — How to override a class or instance method without editing its source file in Rails.

Lucian Ghinda

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

What You Need to Know About SQLite — Lessons on what the SQLite database engine can and cannot do, how Rails helps you work with SQLite, and why it may, or may not, be a good choice to back your Rails 8 app.

Ross Kaffenberger

Mission Control Jobs 1.0 Released — A dashboard and set of extensions that improve the operation and monitoring of background jobs running through Active Job and Solid Queue (or Resque).

Rosa Gutiérrez (37signals)

Building a Better Ruby ORM for Time Series and Analytics — TimescaleDB is a popular extension for adding high performance time series data functions to Postgres and the Timescale team has been working on a way to bring its enhanced time series features into Active Record.

Jônatas Davi Paganini (Timescale)

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

pg_query 6.0: Parse, Deparse and Normalize SQL Queries with Postgres' Own Parser — Uses the actual Postgres server source to parse SQL queries and return their internal Postgres parse tree. v6.0 upgrades to using the Postgres 17 parser and the new features it supports (e.g. new JSON functions).

pganalyze

Oniguruma-to-ES: Convert Patterns from the Oniguruma Regex Engine to Native JS — Oniguruma is a powerful regex engine used by Ruby, TextMate, and other projects. This could be useful if you need to share regexes between Ruby, TextMate grammars, and JavaScript, say. There’s a demo.

Steven Levithan

Awesome Nested Set: The Nested Set Pattern for ActiveRecord Models — Billed as a replacement for acts_as_nested_set and BetterNestedSet, this now supports Rails 8.

Collective Idea