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26 August 2023
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.
25 August 2023
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]
24 August 2023
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! https://github.com/jjb/ruby-clock/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
23 August 2023
22 August 2023
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: https://mattbrictson.com/blog/rake-multitask
The latest issue of Rails Tricks is out!
Covering how to make data imports with Active Record fast: https://greg.molnar.io/blog/rails-tricks-issue-16/
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/
21 August 2023
Organic Test Driven Development in one file
I wrote about how I approach Test Driven Development in a very very lightweight manner at https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/organic-test-driven-development/ 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 https://ivoanjo.me/blog/2023/07/23/understanding-the-ruby-global-vm-lock-by-observing-it/ .
Starting a Business With Kota Weaver | Rubber Duck Dev Show 96
In this episode, Kota Weaver interviews Creston Jamison on starting his software business: https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/episodes/96-starting-a-business-with-kota-weaver/
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 https://psmy.medium.com/parallel-testing-in-rails-7-benefits-and-pitfalls-66d38b8cd15e.
19 August 2023
Rails Already Supports View Components!
The video for the Montreal.rb Ruby Meetup April 3, 2023 talk “Rails Already Supports View Components!” has been posted! This talk will explain the various ways Rails already supports view components out of the box. [more inside]
18 August 2023
Skrift - a pure Ruby TrueType font renderer
Skrift is a tiny (<600 lines currently) pure-Ruby rewrite of the libschrift TrueType font renderer. [more inside]
Build Your Own Blockchain Layer 1 (L1) Ordinal Inscription Indexer
is it ordinal summer? i have started (yet) another free online booklet titled “ Programming Ordinal Generatives (Ordgen) / ORC-721 - Step-by-Step Book / Guide” and the first chapter titled Build Your Own Blockchain Layer 1 (L1) Ordinal Inscription Indexer is online using the unisat, ordinals and ordlite gems. Happy blockchain indexing and data analytics programming with ruby.
Introducing Plain: An AI Assistant Engine for Rails 🤖
I’m thrilled to introduce Plain, a Rails engine designed to supercharge your Rails development. It is a GPT Chat on your Rails app that knows the context of your code, so it can help you build new code, explain some features of your app, build specs, do refactors, etc. It also provides a documentation endpoint populated with Markdown files with front-matter support. [more inside]
17 August 2023
Building Robust APIs with Ruby on Rails: A Glimpse into Modern Web Development
Dive into Rails API development with insights on CRUD, serialization, testing, and more. Enhance your expertise and elevate your projects! Get the comprehensive guide here: https://philsmy.gumroad.com/l/kskwa
16 August 2023
New minitest-flash Gem for Your Fancy Red/Green Notifications
This just out: minitest-flash reporter – dull as ditchwater yet useful IMO. It simply calls your personal minitest-flash executable (usually a shell script) to trigger whatever fancy red/green notification you like. Safe to use on team projects as nothing happens unless the executable is present. The README showcases my setup for macOS which flashes the menu bar twice in either red or green along with an optional sound effect (mutable in case your ears have better things to do).