~rubyweekly | Bookmarks (184)

Using Phlex for Emails: Action Mailer Without ERB — Phlex has grown in popularity as a more OO ERB replacement and it suits emails pretty well too.

Rails Views, Web Components, React.. Why Make a Choice? — A novel take on choosing an approach for your app’s views. Most shops pick Rails+Hotwire or React SPAs, but Aha! looks at where each view framework excels and uses them all.

The Git Gem 3.0: A git Wrapper for Use from Ruby — If you want to work with the git client from Ruby, this provides an interface.

ParallelTests 5.0: More Cores == Faster Tests — Speed up Minitest, RSpec, Turnip, Cucumber or Spinach by running in parallel across multiple cores. v5.0 brings Ruby 3.4 support.

Seamless Rails Upgrades: Expert Maintenance. Fixed Price — Upgrade RoR smoothly. We offer expert Rails maintenance at a fixed price. Secure, performant, minimal disruptions. Outdated gems? Breaking changes? We handle it.

Optimize Ruby App Performance in Real-Time — Visualize Ruby performance using detailed flame graphs to identify bottlenecks and latency. Debug and optimize your code by tracing requests across web servers, databases, and services with Datadog APM. Start a free trial today.

The Pitchfork Story — Rails core member and Shopify engineer Jean led the development of a Rack HTTP server called Pitchfork. Here, he goes into a lot of fascinating depth about the motivations behind Pitchfork’s creation, the memory efficiency it offers, and teaches us quite a bit about Ruby along the way.

Rails::Diff: Compare Rails-Generated Files with the Ones in Your App — You might diligently upgrade your app to new Rails versions but still have differences from how Rails’ default app generator now does things. This lets you see what those differences are.

Bsky Parser: Bluesky Text Parser That Outputs Rich Text Facets — If you’ve ever written code to post to Bluesky, you’ve probably run into what a headache it is to embed links, mentions, and hashtags properly. This aims to remove that headache.

Why Ruby on Rails Still Matters — You’re reading a Ruby newsletter, so you probably don’t need to be convinced of Rails’ relevance. This post doesn’t say a lot but did lead to a rather extensive Hacker News discussion.

Sorbet Adds Support for RBS Comments — Long before RBS was a thing, Sorbet brought type checking to Ruby and it now has (experimental) support for using RBS comments for adding types to methods. This is a neat synergy given that most Ruby type checkers for Ruby are converging towards RBS for type annotations.

Compiling Ruby Apps to Binaries with Tebako — A look into Tebako, a tool (written in Ruby itself) for packaging and distributing apps written in numerous languages into binaries that can be distributed for Windows, macOS and Linux users. It does this by essentially turning an app into a self-executing container. GitHub repo.

Tech Debt Dragging You Down? A Case Study About Bonsai — Too many security CVEs in production? Is your Rails app lagging due to tech debt? See how Bonsai transformed Valid Eval with 2–5× performance gains, smoother upgrades, and enhanced security. Read the case study and reclaim your time. 🚀

How to Submit a Better RailsConf Talk Proposal — The CFP for RailsConf 2025 closes tomorrow so if you’d like to speak, now’s the time to submit your proposal, and following the tips in this post could increase your chances.

Dealing with (Hypothetical) Sham Packages — A fictional-but-based-on-experience account of how a malicious version update for a package/gem can easily make it into your codebase. Do you check every version bump from every dependency? This account might make you think a bit differently about blindly accepting minor version upgrades.

Building an Inertia App with Rails — Get the benefits of a React-based SPA approach on the frontend while keeping Rails in the backend.

So About Those “Noisy Neighbors”… 😬 — Discovering some unfortunate realities of shared hardware (standard dynos??) and how they impact your app (also, tigers?).

Ruby 3.4.2 Released — It’s not just Christmas Day when we get new Ruby releases, it seems to have extended to Valentine’s Day too 😍 This is one of the scheduled routine updates to meet the goal of releasing a new stable Ruby update every two months and solely fixes some bugs this time.

🚀 FastRuby.io Makes Your Rails Upgrade Delightfully Boring with Bonsai — The team behind RailsBump.org offers gradual, 0-downtime upgrades — transform your engineering culture with our experts.

Honeybadger Keeps Getting Better — Honeybadger delivers real-time insights with performance and uptime monitoring, log management, and support for 10+ languages. Your favorite error tracker just leveled up. →

Boosting JRuby Startup with AppCDS and AOT Caching — JRuby’s maintainer shares the results of an ahead-of-time caching feature being previewed in JDK 24 and how it can benefit JRuby startup times. “A huge improvement you’ll get for free”, he says.