~rubyweekly | Issue 715 - Rails 7.2 released (12)

Rails 7.2: Better Production Defaults, Dev Containers, New Guides Design, and More — Rails 7.2 is out, and it’s a doozy. After year(s) of talk, testing, and use, YJIT is now enabled by default (for Ruby 3.3 and higher), and dev containers are here so that you can Dockerize your dev environment easily.

Railing Against Time: Tools and Techniques for 5x Faster Tests — A look at how Evil Martians recently helped a client optimize their CI pipeline and test and change their code faster, ultimately getting five times faster results. Stackprof and TestProf to the rescue.

Return an Enumerator When Your Collection Has Multiple Traversals — #each makes a lot of sense when a collection has one obvious way to be iterated over, but if there are various approaches all at play at once, the Enumerator abstraction can make things cleaner.

An Introduction to Minitest Mocks — Test doubles likes mocks and stubs can help isolate code being tested from the rest of a system and Minitest has its own approach for these.

Building a Modal Form with Rails, Turbo, and the dialog Element — How to practically apply Turbo Frames and Turbo Streams using a gradual, layered approach on top of standard Rails scaffolding, with only one line of JavaScript needed.

Why You Should Use Rails' Logger Block Syntax — How to use block syntax when using your logger with Rails to save object allocations and CPU time.

Why You Should Participate in Friendly.rb This September — Following up on a successful 2023 outing, Friendly.rb is back in Bucharest, Romania next month.

childprocess 5.1: Cross-Platform Library for Managing Child Processes — A long standing library (the first version came out in 2010) for controlling external programs on any combination of CRuby/JRuby and OS.

temporary_tables: Create Temporary Tables for RSpec Tests — Create temporary tables and models in specs, rather than create and maintain a dummy Rails app or block-level constants.

🔓 Is Your Rails App Secure? Need to Upgrade on a Budget? — Talk is Cheap. Experience is King. Bonsai by FastRuby.io is a monthly upgrade service for top-notch engineering teams 🚀

Rails 8 Introducing a Basic Authentication Generator — While the next major version of Rails is still a little way off, we can already see some of Rails’ future features in commits made to the edge version.