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An Introduction to the Ruby LSP Add-on System — Ruby LSP is a language server that uses static analysis to improve Ruby editing features in editors like VS Code, Neovim and Emacs.

Top 10 Most Excellent Gems to Use in Any Ruby Web App — These are personal favorites of the author, but his choices are good and cover both well known things like Dotenv and Concurrent Ruby to less common choices like Nokolexbor, an HTML parser based on Lexbor.

The Process of Contributing to Ruby's Docs — Nithin saw some areas where he felt he could improve Ruby’s docs but was intimidated by the process involved.

👊RailsBump.org Is Now Supported & Maintained by FastRuby❤️ — Exciting news! RailsBump is now run by FastRuby.io. This open source, community-driven tool is great for tracking gem + Rails compatibility. What feature would make your upgrades smoother? Submit your ideas on GitHub, and let’s build it together!🚀

The Decide, Evolve, React Pattern in Ruby — This pattern feels like if event sourcing and state machines had a baby.

Writing More Expressive Ruby with the it Shorthand — Note that this is a Ruby 3.4 (currently in preview) feature.

🌳 Ready for Rails 8? Need to Upgrade? Try Bonsai by FastRuby.io — Stuck on Rails 4.2? Stop postponing your upgrade; ship it with our fixed-cost monthly maintenance service. 🚀

Kamal 2.0 Released: The Tool to Deploy Anything Anywhere — A major release of 37signals’ increasingly popular deployment tool. v2 focuses on scale and replaces Traefik with its more efficient Kamal Proxy. We also get automatic HTTPS via Let’s Encrypt and the ability to deploy multiple apps to the same server. It’ll come by default with Rails 8.

Spectator Sport: An Early Stage Browser Recording Engine — A Rails engine that enables ‘video-like recording’ of user actions in an app, so you can see how people (testers, perhaps) are really using your site. It’s early days, but the demo is functional.

Why Every Dev Team Needs a Product Manager Partner 🤩 — A great product manager unlocks your team's potential, for fast delivery and high-quality software without the stress.

Solid Queue v1.0: Database-Backed Active Job Backend — Another release that was made in time for Rails World. Designed to run against MySQL, Postgres or SQLite, Solid Queue supports delayed and recurring jobs, priorities, and bulk enqueuing. It, too, will come by default with Rails 8.

Minitest::Verify: Minitest Plugin to Prevent False Negative Tests — Here’s an explanation of why negative tests are to be avoided.

Tailwindcss::Ruby: A Self-Contained Tailwind CSS Gem — Wraps the standalone executable version of the Tailwind CSS framework into a form that can be installed simply via a gem.

▶  DHH's Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote — Rails World took place last week, and by all accounts it was an amazing experience. DHH took to the stage to introduce Rails 8.0 beta 1, talk about the idea of the ‘One Person Framework’, espouse import maps, getting off the cloud, and more besides.

Eliminating Intermediate Array Allocations — Sure, all most things in Ruby are objects, but do all objects cause memory allocations? The answer is “no,” but the logic behind allocations is worth knowing, as understanding Ruby’s behavior can help you make your code more efficient.

How to Fix Tricky Sidekiq Memory Issues — “We’ll touch briefly on finding and trying to fix background jobs that are consuming too much memory, but we’ll focus mostly on mitigating the damage a memory-hungry background job can do.”

37Signals Unveils Hotwire Native — In conjunction with Rails World 2024 starting today, 37signals has a big Hotwire related announcement – a new framework for building ‘native’ mobile apps (on iOS and Android) in a ‘web-first’ way, backed by a Hotwire-powered webapp. (It’s arguably not a ‘Ruby’ project at all, but Hotwire’s suite of technologies are targeted at Rails developers and most commonly used...

Pay 8.0: A Payments Engine for Rails Apps — Supports Stripe, Paddle, Braintree, as well as a ‘fake’ processor for trials, freebies, testing, etc. v8.0 can now sync one-time or subscription transactions from Paddle and Stripe, adds Lemon Squeezy support, and more.

PSA: The Azure-Storage-Blob Library Is Officially Toast 🚨 — Joé Dupuis has you covered! Meet azure-blob—a leaner and more efficient way to interact with Azure Blob Storage.

A Terminal–Based Game in 150 Lines of Ruby — This is a fun little tutorial to build a Halloween-themed game that uses emojis for the graphics and other game constructs, like an event loop and collision detection.

A Lightweight Introduction to mruby — mruby is an official (it’s led by Matz!) standards-compliant Ruby implementation focused on being lightweight and embeddable into other systems. If you’ve never played with it, luckily it’s pretty easy to get started.

Ruby’s New Parser: Why Prism is the Future of Ruby Development — A summary of ▶️ a 25-minute podcast interview with the creator of Kevin Newton, the architect of Ruby’s new Prism parser.

🚀 Stuck on Ruby 2.7? Need to Upgrade on a Budget? — Gradually pay down tech debt: Stop postponing your upgrade and ship it with our cost-effective maintenance service.

The Ruby on Rails Community Survey 2024 Results — Every two years, Planet Argon has run this well received survey and now the results from over 2700 Rubyists are here to enjoy, complete with comparisons over time. We get to learn what Rubyists' favorite podcasts are, popular livestreamers, top gems, and also that Stimulus has Stimulus has overtaken React as the #1 JavaScript library used.