The Ruby Association's Call For Grant Proposals — Each year, the Ruby Association, chaired by Ruby’s creator Matz, puts out a call for proposals for Ruby related projects that they can give a grant (of 750,000 Yen - roughly $5000) to assist further development. The deadline for this run is October 6, next Monday.

Ruby Association

Tuple - What Core Contributors Use to Pair on Ruby and Rails — 4 out of the 10 top contributors to Ruby use Tuple to pair on code. Tired of verbally steering on Zoom? Discerning developers choose Tuple.

Tuple sponsor

Ruby Central's Stewardship: Where We Are, What’s Changing and How We’ll Engage — Further to last week’s story around recent actions taken by Ruby Central around the RubyGems and Bundler repos, the executive director of Ruby Central has put out a more thorough explanation of what was involved and why they took action.

Shan Cureton (Ruby Central)

Playing with Ruby's -s Flag — Ruby accepts a lot of different command line flags, and this is one I’ve certainly never used before which allows the setting of global variables from the command line.

Sam Westerman

JRuby and Leyden: Even Better Startup — Last week we pointed to the efforts of JRuby’s lead maintainer to reduce JRuby’s startup time. He’s back with a sneak preview of how the time could be reduced even further in future.

Charles Oliver Nutter

Per-Slice Sessions in Hanami — A slice is a concept in Hanami where your app can be split into distinct parts.

Tim Riley

The Ultimate Guide to Scaling Sidekiq — What we’ve learned helping 100’s of teams scale their background jobs.

Judoscale sponsor

TruffleRuby 25.0: Oracle's High Performance Ruby Implementation — Created by the late Chris Seaton, TruffleRuby is a Ruby implementation leaning on GraalVM, a JDK with a fast JIT compiler. With v25.0, TruffleRuby can now run native extensions in parallel and includes many compatibility improvements.

Oracle

Roo 3.0: Read Spreadsheet Files in Ruby — A mature, long-standing library that can read numerous spreadsheet formats including Excel 2007-2013, LibreOffice/OpenOffice ODS, Google Sheets, and even much older, legacy Excel formats. This release brings Roo into the Ruby 3.x era.

Daniels, Simonov, et al.

🐯 Tiger Postgres: Massive Scale, Same SQL You Love — Scale Postgres to 2PB & 1.5T metrics/day—without hidden tools. TigerData brings power without complexity.

TigerData sponsor

Nextgen: Generate Your Next Rails App Interactively — An interactive and flexible alternative to rails new that includes opt-in support for modern frontend development with Vite.

Matt Brictson

MiniCSS: Pure Ruby CSS Tokenizer, Parser, Serializer and Selector — A brand new library providing an implementation of CSS Syntax Level 3 tokenization, parsing, serialization and element selector processing.

Vito Sartori