Tutorial: Ruby GUI with Glimmer (by Mattias Velamsson)

Mattias Velamsson recently shared a beginner’s tutorial for making a GUI (Graphical User Interface) in Ruby titled “Ruby GUI with Glimmer”. It provides a step-by-step code walkthrough that produces a full-fledged web-API-driven table-based business application. It uses various gems and APIs like glimmer-dsl-libui, dotenv, Net::HTTP, URI, JSON, and the Exchange Rates Data API. [more inside]

Programming & Child Development With Noah Gibbs | Rubber Duck Dev Show 97

In this episode, we discuss learning to program and child development with Noah Gibbs:

punkme gem v0.1 - (pixel) punk yourself with your own skintone, hair style ( & color)

hello, back to (punk) pixel art. i have put together the world’s 1st (pixel) punkme (gem) for punk heads / characters that lets you use your own skintone, hair styles (& colors) and more. deep pink (blonde) barbie punk(ette)s? deep purple (mohawk) punks? yes, you can. happy image generating and pixel pushing with ruby.

Add a favicon to your Ruby on Rails app in 2 minutes

Hey, just a short article — you can add a favicon to your Ruby on Rails app in less than 2 minutes

OpenAI transcription API and ActiveStorage analyzers

Read my blogpost about Connecting the OpenAI transcription API and ActiveStorage analyzers to transcribe audiofiles with AI

table_inspector v0.6.0 is released. Add more concise statement and more customizable

table_inspector v0.6.0 is released. This release allows you to call a class method on model class to print the database table structure. Add a new option style that allows you to customize the table’s appearance.

barbershop gem v0.1 - make your own punk hair styles incl. mohawk, wild & crazy, ...

hello, back to (punk) pixel art. i have put together the world’s 1st barbershop (gem) for punks that lets you make your own men’s hair styles incl. mohawk, wild & crazy, long & short and more and lets you use your own hair colors incl. white, silver, blonde, pink, purple, red, and more. happy hair dressing and pixel pushing with ruby.

How to Fix Heroku's Noisy Neighbors

You’ve probably experienced Heroku’s noisy neighbors issues… [more inside]

A Simple Stimulus tabs Controller 🗂️

Learn how to build a simple tabs controller using Stimulus. [more inside]

Working with Rails Engines, Importmap and TailwindCSS for assets.

Have you ever wondered how to make Rails Engines play nice with Importmap and TailwindCSS? [more inside]

ruby-clock 2.0 is out!

ruby-clock is a ruby job scheduler (i.e. cron replacement) which runs jobs each in their own thread in a persistent process. It’s easy to use and has lots of bells and whistles!

Secure Your Ruby App with JSON Web Tokens

Rails 7.1 adds intersect? to ActiveRecord::Relation

How to isolate I18n configuration in a Rails Engine

I wrote up these notes to capture what I had learned internationalizing GoodJob’s dashboard, and also hopefully help other Rails Engine developers. [more inside]

Speed up your default Rake task with the multitask option

Rake has the ability to run tasks in parallel. For Rails projects with many test and linting tasks, this can be a huge time-saver. On my project, running in parallel makes my default Rake task finish 3x faster! Make sure to declare your default task as a list of prerequisites, then run bin/rake -m. This post goes into more detail:

The latest issue of Rails Tricks is out!

Covering how to make data imports with Active Record fast:

ActiveRecord Internals : You are not ready for this

This is the first part of my understanding of Rails active record internals. Do not hesitate to comment or ask questions. I would love to know what you think about this one! :) [more inside]

Overriding Rails engines models and controllers

If you have ever wondered, yes, you can override included engines models and controllers and here is how to do it.

Keeping Up With Ruby News All Week Long

This presents sources that highlight Ruby news on a weekly basis, giving you something to follow each day of the week. https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/keeping-up-with-ruby-news/

Organic Test Driven Development in one file

I wrote about how I approach Test Driven Development in a very very lightweight manner at by keeping gem dependencies, source code, unit tests, and documentation in a single file. This helps me keep iterations tight and rapid early on in a project. Once I’m ready to distribute it as a gem I break it apart into the usual files you’d see in a project.

Understanding the Ruby Global VM Lock by observing it

The Global VM Lock (GVL), is an implementation detail of the Ruby VM. At a high-level, it prevents code across multiple threads from running in parallel. The GVL can have a big impact on the performance and responsiveness of any application that uses more than a single thread to do its work. I’ve recently presented on this topic at RubyKaigi 2023; live interactive examples, the video, and slides are available at .

Starting a Business With Kota Weaver | Rubber Duck Dev Show 96

In this episode, Kota Weaver interviews Creston Jamison on starting his software business:

Verifying Paddle Billing webhooks with Rails

If you want to use Paddle payment provider and their new Billing offering, I wrote how to verify Paddle Billing notifications.

satsnames gem v0.1 - sats names helpers for ordinal inscription names, relays & more

is it ordinal summer? i have packaged up scripts & datasets in the new satsnames gem that let you use “first-come / first-serve” .sats (or .paper or .game or …) name records to lookup ordinal inscriptions by (registered) names via relays and more. It’s (very) early. Happy blockchain surfing and programming with ruby.

Parallel Testing in Rails 7: Benefits and Pitfalls

Explore the realm of Rails 7’s parallel testing with our in-depth look into its efficiency-boosting capabilities and the challenges that might arise. As developers, understanding the tools at our disposal is paramount. Don’t miss out on this comprehensive guide that could revolutionize your testing strategy. Dive deep into the benefits and pitfalls of this robust feature at .