~rubyweekly | Issue 719 - An even faster future for JRuby (15)

JRuby on CRaC: An Effort to Improve JRuby's Startup Time — CRaC is an OpenJDK project to speed up start times by using restorable checkpoints, and while JRuby is already a pretty fast implementation, its startup times could certainly be improved. Could CRaC be a big help? Yes!

The Rails Renaissance — Rails 8 has a lot of folks feeling bullish about Rails’ future. Long-time Ruby firm Hashrocket gives its reasons for getting excited here.

Hands on Postgres 17: What’s New & Impacting Performance — Application performance depends on database performance. In this free webinar, learn how Postgres 17 enhancements, like faster B-tree scans, adaptive vacuum strategies, & streaming I/O updates, will impact your database performance & monitoring.

A Tour of Ruby Modules — A comprehensive reference that covers all manner of module related topics, like use cases, hooks methods, and their use in various design patterns.

Upgrading an App's Ruby Version with 'Dual Booting' — A smart and low-intrusive way to quickly test your app against an upgraded version of Ruby (going from 3.2.2 to 3.3.0 in this case).

▶  A Tale of Moving from Next.js to Rails — Adam shows off what it took to move his company’s Next.js-powered marketing site over to Rails. (15 minutes.)

How to Use Azure Blob Storage with Rails — For when you want to use something like S3 to store files but you'd rather use Azure.

Splitwise is the New Maintainer of SuperDiff — SuperDiff significantly improves RSpec’s diffing capabilities (see above) and is almost a ‘must have’ for RSpec users IMO. Its maintainer recently retired from open source, but Splitwise has taken over the reins.

has_some_of_many: Optimized Top-N-Per-Group Active Record Associations — Adds new optimized association methods (has_one_of_many, has_some_of_many) for ‘top N’ queries to Active Record using efficient JOIN LATERAL queries.

🚀 Need to Upgrade to Rails 7.2 + Ruby 3.3 but Not Sure How? — Bonsai by FastRuby.io is the monthly upgrade service trusted by top-notch engineering teams. Upgrade with confidence.

AnnotateRb: Add Annotations to Your Rails Models and Route Files — A way to add comments summarizing the model schema or routes in your models, fixture files, test, specs, etc. This could also help any LLMs analyzing your code.

ActsAsRecursiveTree 4.0: Query Complete Trees with Efficient SQL — SQLite and Postgres support SQL syntax for recursively working through tree-like structures. This brings it to your Active Record models.

AlchemyCMS 7.3: A Rails CMS Framework — A CMS you can run standalone or bake into your existing Rails apps, and which now supports Rails 7.2. There’s a live demo too (the admin login is demo/demo123).