fake_io 0.1.0 released

fake_io 0.1.0 has been released. FakeIO is a module that can be included into any Class in order to create IO-like objects. FakeIO emulates buffered IO, while delegating the raw reads/writes to the io_read/io_write methods. FakeIO can be used to create IO-like wrapper objects around non-IO network data sources (ex: RPC, WebSockets, etc). FakeIO supports all Ruby 2.x and 3.x IO methods.

Automatic RubyGems Multi-Factor Authentication with Gemsmith

Hey all. 👋 Gemsmith 16.0.0 has been released and also completely rewritten on top of Rubysmith which brings a lot of modern convenience to building and maintaining your Ruby gems. Included in this release is the ability to automatically authenticate to RubyGems using Multi-Factor Authentication as long as your YubiKey is plugged into your machine. The linked article will walk you through how all of this works and how you leverage this functionality to speed up your own development workflow. 🚀

Ruby's Popular Game Library, Gosu, is having its second Game Jam

Join the jam on Itch:

[screencast] Ranges in Ruby

Published a screencast about Ranges in Ruby, one could watch it here:

First stable version of 📤 smtp_mock has been released 🚀

💎 Ruby SMTP mock. Mimic any 📤 SMTP server behaviour for your test environment with fake SMTP server:

Solving Wordle with Ruby

Dependency Injection in Ruby from Zero to Hero (Part 1)

Dependency Injection is an extremely useful programming technique and can be easily implemented in Ruby! But comes with own cost. Mastering it is an important skill to leverage the power of Hanami applications! dry-container is one way to help you with it! [more inside]

Sidekiq, Rails : full tutorial

Sidekiq allows Rails to launch any task in the background. Let’s see how, from zero to production. [more inside]

The Builder Pattern (video)

The Builder pattern allows you to hide the configuration of complex objects in a separate class. It makes sense to use it when you feel like the creation of an object has become too complex, and you’re repeating the process in a few different places. Or, when you need to create an object with different possible configuration options. [more inside]

Glimmer DSL for GTK Tetris + Cairo Tutorial Inspired by Mohit Sindhwani

Mohit, thank you for writing such a great introductory RCairo tutorial. My tutorial takes it further by showing software engineers how to build those same Cairo graphics into a desktop GUI application (as opposed to just plain images). [more inside]

[screencast] Hashes in Ruby

Released nokogiri-ext 0.1.0

Released nokogiri-ext 0.1.0. nokogiri-ext is a collection of useful extensions to the nokogiri gem.

Implementing cursor-based pagination

Implementing a simple cursor-based pagination module in less than 100 lines of code.

Rubber Duck Dev Show Episode 27 | Refactoring in the Wild

Hear two rubyists discuss how to get started refactoring your code:

Ruby IDE

The 9 Best IDEs for Ruby on Rails Development

Milliseconds in Ruby

3 cases where you could meet milliseconds in Ruby. [more inside]

GraphQL APIs in Rails

GraphQL is a flexible, strongly-typed query language. It’s useful because it gives front-end developers the ability to query the database without many changes to the back-end. In this article, David Sanchez shows us how to design and build our own GraphQL APIs in Rails.

Test and Optimize Your Ruby on Rails Database Performance

In this post, explore three common ways to discover and test database performance problems in Rails, and seven ways to optimize performance.

Spree Commerce 4.4 is here! 🚀🚀🚀

This is the biggest open-source release in a long time filled with new features & integrations! 💪 Spree is now even more composable and customizable! [more inside]

Arrays in Ruby Part 2

Strategic 1.2.0 (DefaultStrategy)

Strategic 1.2.0 (Painless Strategy Pattern in Ruby and Rails) shipped with a minor new feature: having a default strategy on Strategic classes of ‘default’, which is activated if a ModelNamespace::DefaultStrategy class is present… [more inside]

Upgrade Rails from 6.1 to 7.0

This article will cover the most important aspects that you need to know to get your Ruby on Rails application from version 6.1 to version 7.0.

Build your own concurrency control in Sidekiq

#13 - A sneak-peak into loading deps wirh dry-container

I have prepared a guide covering switching dependency files in Hanami, as well as providing a cool debugging tips for dependency loading with dry-container [more inside]

What's new in Ruby 3.1?

Ruby 3.1 was released last month, and it brings a new JIT compiler, a new debugger, improvements to IRB, better error messages, new hash syntax and lots of other improvements. Here’s a summary of the new features.