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Fixed Price Monthly Code Maintenance for Rails Apps — No time to do those small but critical updates and features? CodeCare will take care of necessary tweaks, bug fixes, upgrades and ongoing improvements for your app.

🙈 CRuby's Monkey Patch Detection — CRuby includes many optimizations to allow core classes representing essential concepts like numbers, arrays, and strings to operate as quickly as possible. If a core class is monkey patched, however, these optimizations might need to be dropped, but how does Ruby detect this and ‘de-optimize’ itself?

Leveraging Falcon and Rails for Real-Time Interactivity — A thoroughly educational history of the Async gem, its influence on Rack 3, real-time interactivity in Rails, and how the integration of Async 2, Rack 3, Falcon, and Rails ‘provides a powerful foundation for building highly interactive and scalable web applications.’

RubyGems.org Gets a New Design — A new design is gradually rolling out to improve support for a wider range of devices, as well as adding a much-needed ‘dark mode.’ You’re encouraged to help review the update and report any usability issues.

Wikidata is a Giant Crosswalk File — Wikidata is the Wikipedia of structured data. Here we see how to use DuckDB and Ruby to create ‘crosswalks’ from Wikidata to map identifiers in the data to third party services. Neat to see an example of using Ractors in a blog post, too.

Awkward Alert: How to Ask “Why Are You Building This?” 😨 — Everyone wants to know *why* the thing is being built. But it’s hard to ask. Practical tips to avoid seeming critical.

Denko 0.14.0: Electronics / GPIO Programming in Ruby — lgpio is a wrapper around the access Linux provides to GPIO features and Denko and denko-piboard use it to let you program electronics devices in Ruby (think LEDs, buttons, sensors, etc.) Here’s a list of the microcontrollers supported.

sequel-activerecord_connection 1.5: Let Sequel Reuse Active Record Connections — An extension for the popular Sequel database toolkit to enable reusing of an existing Active Record connection rather than setting up a new one.

Move Fast and Fix Things with Honeybadger — Honeybadger transforms your logs into rich events that help you fix issues before your users know what happened. Try our free plan!

ActiveAdmin v4 Beta: New Features, Upgrades, and How to Migrate — ActiveAdmin is one of the most popular Rails administration tools. It now supports Rails 7, bringing Hotwire support and improved performance, and includes better CSS theming and batch actions, so it’s worth a look.

recursive-open-struct 2.0: OpenStructs in OpenStructs in OpenStructs? — An OpenStruct subclass that returns nested hash attributes as RecursiveOpenStructs.

InvoicePrinter 2.4: Super Simple PDF Invoicing — A server, command line program and pure Ruby library to generate PDF invoices. It’s been around years but continues to get updates.

Rails World 2024 Recap: All Talks Now Online — Rails World was a resounding success (save for a fire alarm that woke everyone up at 2am, we hear!) and while it’s great to hear what a good time everyone had, it’s even better to finally get to enjoy all the great talks for ourselves. I’ve been watching for hours and point out some highlights below.

Become a Better Engineer in Less Than 5 Minutes a Week — Hacking Scale is a bi-weekly newsletter about building and scaling software. Get an engineering story explained in <1000 words, with hand-drawn visuals, delivered to your inbox. Ship with secrets from Figma or OpenAI.

Join RubyConf24 Nov 13-15 for Sessions, Workshops, and Keynotes! — Meet your #RubyFriends, learn, and have fun! Register and book your hotel today!

Design Patterns in Ruby — A list of structural, behavioral, and creational patterns, each with an in-depth explanatory article and comprehensive code example.

📗 Let's Read Eloquent Ruby: Chapter 20 — In 2011, Russ Olsen released the fantastic Eloquent Ruby, a book focused on doing things ‘the Ruby way’ and using Ruby to its full advantage. Brandon has been reading and blogging about each chapter as he progresses through the book, starting all the way from Chapter 1 back in 2021.

RubyConf Chicago Dinner: Exclusive Industry Leaders Networking Invite — Join reinteractive for an exclusive dinner at RubyConf Chicago. Network with industry leaders & shape the future of Ruby.

Prompts: User-Friendly Forms/Inputs for Command-Line Ruby Apps — If you’re building a basic CLI app and you want users to enter text, pick from a range of options, or to confirm actions, this makes it a lot smoother to do.

Mastodon 4.3: The Federated, Self-Hosted Microblogging App — Mastodon is the most widely deployed Rails app (or, arguably, second to only Discourse) powering a wide federation of Twitter-esque social media sites. v4.3 is a major update, largely on the front end, with an improved design and notifications. Technical release notes.

Authentication Zero 4.0: Auth System Generator for Rails — Rather than being an authentication library, this generates a pre-built authentication system within your app directly which you can then modify as you see fit.

Neighbor: Nearest Neighbor Search for Rails — Now supporting Postgres, SQLite, MariaDB and MySQL, you can use this for things like implementing semantic search systems.

Ruby 3.4.0 Preview 2 Released — The preview releases leading up to final Christmas Day Ruby releases don’t tend to throw up many changes, but this is an exception. A significant change is that Ruby’s default parser has been changed to Prism, so it’s absolutely worth testing your code against it now. You can also now use it as a default block parameter, amongst...

▶  Fireside Chat with DHH, Matz and Tobias Lütke — Matz and DHH shared a stage for the first time alongside Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke for a nearly hour long chat about Ruby, Rails, and all things open source. There was no fire, alas, but they covered a lot about Ruby and Rails history, community, and design philosophies.