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12 September 2023
Sqlite & Rails in Production
I contributed to a few gems to make the development experience of deploying Sqlite Rails apps to production as simple as possible and wrote about it at https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/sqlite-and-rails-in-production/
Ruby goes to the movie theater: directing the refactoring of your application
This post introduces a method I use to refactor big applications. I want the process to happen in a predictable manner and make sure that important things are addressed before others. One day I realized that there is a missing tool in my workflow, so I’ll introduce my new gem called rubocop_director.
11 September 2023
When Should You Use Background Jobs? | Rubber Duck Dev Show 99
In this episode, we discuss when you should use background jobs: https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/episodes/99-when-should-you-use-background-jobs/
Rauversion 🤘 The self-hosted music industries built on Rails 🤘
We’re excited to share this release with you all: a fresh take on music streaming platforms, reminiscent of SoundCloud and Bandcamp, but with some unique features that cater to artists, music enthusiasts, and event hosts alike. Built using the power and flexibility of Rails and Hotwire, we’re proud of what we’ve achieved and would love to hear your feedback! [more inside]
10 September 2023
rubidity-typed gem - "zero-dependency" type machinery for rubidity
Hello, as a follow up to Rubidity - Ruby for Layer 1 (L1) Contracts with “Off-Chain” Indexer I have published the first “zero-dependency” rubidity gem. Let’s welcome the rubidity-typed gem bundling-up the “zero-dependency” type machinery incl. (frozen) string, address, uint256, contract and more for rubidity for easy (re)use and experiments. It’s still (very) early. I invite you to join the fun and let’s explore and learn together building a type machinery in ruby.
9 September 2023
Rails 7. Start Kit — Windows, Linux, MacOS!
Rails 7. Start Kit - staring a new RoR app never been so easy! Run the only shell command and get a launched RoR app in 10 minutes! This is game changing project for development, learning and teaching processes in Rails ecosystem. Try it out right now! Happy coding! V2.0 Release Note
8 September 2023
Celebrating 10 issues of the RailsNotes newsletter 🥳
I’ve published the 10th issue of my Ruby on Rails newsletter. Check it out!
Using Alpine.js with Rails 7 importmap
Alpine is an alternative to Stimulus for “JavaScript sprinkles” in your Rails apps. Pair with me for 20 minutes while we build an Alpine component from scratch, installing Alpine with importmap and iteratively bringing our UI to life.
re2 2.0.0.beta1: vendored dependencies & precompiled native gems
The first beta release of a major new version of re2 which no longer requires Google’s underlying RE2 “fast, safe, thread-friendly” regular expression library to be installed as it is now vendored with the gem (ala Nokogiri and libxml2). To save compilation time, precompiled native gems are available for Linux, Windows and macOS. [more inside]
Intro to Ruby in the Browser (Talk Video)
Matz mentioned in his RubyConf 2022 keynote speech that in the future of Ruby, maybe we could start replacing JavaScript with Ruby in the browser… https://youtu.be/4AdcfbI6A4c?si=BIp_8Kd9nowuMCqr [more inside]
7 September 2023
Rubidity - Ruby for Layer 1 (L1) Contracts with "Off-Chain" Indexer
Hello, as a follow up to Rubidity - A Ruby Dialect for Dumb (Blockchain) Contracts i have started a rubidity sandbox to experiment “off-chain” with the new ruby dialect and contracts. I invite you to join the fun and let’s explore and learn together.
Integration patterns for distributed architecture
Distributed architectures have been growing in popularity for quite a while for some good reasons. The rise of cloud services making the deployments simpler, as well as the ever-growing complexity of the applications, resulted in a shift away from monolithic architecture for many technical ecosystems. Microservices have emerged as an alternative solution offering greater modularity, scalability, reliability, agility, and ease of collaboration between multiple teams. Nevertheless, these benefits don’t come for free. The price to pay could be significant due to many factors, and one of them is dealing with some challenges that don’t necessarily happen when working on a monolith. One of such challenges is establishing the best way of integration and communication between services. [more inside]
Episode 418: I'm a teapot
A special release to celebrate 418 episodes. I talk about different HTTP response codes. https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/i-m-a-teapot
Build dynamic navs with current_page? (and conditional classes) 🧭
I’ve written an article about how to build dynamic navs, using the current_page? helper
6 September 2023
A few things I've learned while working in dev containers
In the past few months, I’ve added development containers to several Ruby on Rails (and other languages/frameworks) applications. I’ve learned a lot along the way, and wrote some off the cuff thoughts on how I approach dev containers, how I treat them differently from production containers, and where there’s still room for improvement. Hope you’ll check it out!
minitest-substitute
Ever wanted to modify an ENV variable, an instance or class variable (e.g. on Config) for the duration of a block or for all tests of a “describe” group? This pattern emerged repeatedly in my suites and as I don’t like to bloat my test/spec helper, about time for the lightweight and dependency-free minitest-substitute gem. Drop cumbersome before and after handling with one or more easy to read with "ENV['FOO']", "bar" or with "@run_at", on: Config { Time.now } declarations. Happy testing!
5 September 2023
GemRuby Show : Vladimir Dementyev, ActionPolicy
Hi fellow Rubyists, [more inside]
Ruby and the State of Artificial Intelligence
In this article, we delve into the State of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Ruby Ecosystem, exploring the tools available, challenges faced, progress made, and the potential for the future: https://blog.codeminer42.com/ruby-and-the-state-of-artificial-intelligence/
4 September 2023
Active-subscription only ActionCable broadcasting
An extract of a technique I’ve been running successfully to only render and broadcast payloads over ActionCable for users that are actively subscribed to the channel: https://blog.jamesbrooks.net/posts/enhanced-broadcasting-with-actioncable/