#484 — January 16, 2020

Read on the Web

Ruby Weekly

Effectively Using Materialized Views in Rails — Postgres’s views and materialized views provide easy alternative ways of looking at a database’s underlying data through the lens of a persistent query, and working with them in Rails is not too tricky.

Leigh Halliday

A Migration Path to Bundler 2+ — If you’ve tried using Bundler 2, you probably know about the elevated RubyGems version requirements or other issues. Here’s a path the Bundler team could use (and has, partly.)

Benoit Daloze

Next-Gen Open Source Rails Commerce Platform — Workarea is an enterprise-grade Ruby on Rails commerce platform supporting merchants doing $150 million+ online and is designed to integrate commerce, content, search, and insights in a single admin. This Rails app uses MongoDB & ElasticSearch.

Workarea sponsor

A Deep Dive Into 'Did You Mean?' — Since version 2.3.0, Ruby comes bundled with did_you_mean, a handy gem for detecting typos in your code. How does it work?

Hrvoje Šimić

Writing a Program That's Both Ruby and Python — Is this useful? I don’t think so. Is this interesting enough to warrant 30 seconds of your time? Sure 😄

Nazar Kanaev

3 Ways Webpack Surprises Web Developers — One for Rails 6 developers. “When I first started working with Webpack, I was in for a few surprises. I assumed how things should behave, based on my previous experience with the Rails asset pipeline, only to learn through experience how I was wrong.”

Ross Kaffenberger

The Ruby Bibliography: Academic Writing on Ruby — It’s been a couple of years since we last linked to this list of theses and peer-reviewed papers and articles on or about Ruby, but 2019 saw six additions if you’re seeking some highbrow bedtime reading.

Chris Seaton et al.

💻 Jobs

Software Engineer, Full-Stack (Ruby/Rails/JS) — Health Tech, join our distributed engineering team in our quest to make doctors more effective using Ruby, Rails, Vue.js.

Doximity

Full-Stack or Front-End Engineer - Rails/React (Remote/NYC) — Got 2+ years of experience? Come help build the next iteration of our growing digital recovery platform centered on providing alcohol abuse treatment.

TEMPEST

Find a Job Through Vettery — Vettery is completely free for job seekers. Make a profile, name your salary, and connect with hiring managers from top employers.

Vettery

📘 Articles & Tutorials

Testing Signed and Encrypted Cookies in Rails“I’d never tested the value in a signed cookie before and it wasn’t immediately obvious what to do..”

Phil Nash

The Pros and Cons of Using structure.sql in Your Rails App — Discover the major differences and benefits of using structure.sql vs schema.rb in your app.

Daniele Pestilli

Track Down Ruby Performance Issues Fast. Get Back to Coding with Scout — Scout continually tracks down N+1 database queries, sources of memory bloat, performance abnormalities and more.

ScoutAPM sponsor

▶  Discussing rubyfmt with Penelope Phippenrubyfmt is a Ruby code formatting tool. rufo is another tool in this space worth exploring.

Greater Than Code Podcast podcast

▶  Building an Asynchronous Scheduler for Ruby(Note: The first 45 seconds are silent.)

Samuel Williams

Contributing to Ruby MRI — Do you have a resolution around contributing to Ruby? If so, start with these brief pointers.

Kir Shatrov

A Sequel Cheatsheet — Sequel is many folks’ favorite replacement for ActiveRecord.

Devhints.io

🛠 Code and Tools

Rufo: An Opinionated Ruby Code Formatter — Intended to be used via the command line as an editor plugin (Atom, Emacs, Sublime Text, Vim or VS Code) to auto-format files on save or on demand. Aims to be zero config and offer ‘one true’ formatting approach.

Ary Borenszweig

Solidus: A Rails-Based E-Commerce System — It’s been around for some time, but yesterday’s release introduces Rails 6 support.

Solidus

Learn About Automated Postgres EXPLAIN Plan Insights on pganalyze

pganalyze sponsor

Grape 1.3: An Opinionated Framework for Creating REST-like APIs

Michael Bleigh

Closure Tree: Make Active Record Models Support Tree Hierarchies — Boasts that it’s *“dramatically more performant than ancestry and acts_as_tree, and even more awesome than awesome_nested_set”. It’s an old project but has just had its first release in over a year.

Matthew McEachen

A Ruby Quine in GitHub Contribution Squares — And to think it only took 38 years of git commits to make.. 😏

Yusuke Endoh

rouge: A Pure-Ruby, Pygments-Compatible Code Highlighter — This week’s release adds support for Objective C++, GHC (Haskell) and FreeFEM.

rouge-ruby

DropletKit: The Official DigitalOcean API Client for Ruby

DigitalOcean