~rubyweekly | Issue 721 - The community survey results are in (12)

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.

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.

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.

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 Brief Look at the New Kamal Proxy Replacing Traefik — Good news for those who found Traefik to be the most difficult part of Kamal to grok. It also brings in new features, like supporting multiple apps on the same host, and simpler configuration.

🚀 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.

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.

sqlite3-ruby 2.1: Ruby Bindings for SQLite — You surely know this popular library, but v2.1 notably drops Ruby 3.0 support but introduces significant improvements to fork safety, which will become all the more important for Rails 8 users.

Job Iteration 1.6: Makes ActiveJob Jobs Interruptible and Resumable — ActiveJob extension that makes jobs interruptible and resumable, saving all progress that the job has made. v1.6 adds interruption handlers for GoodJob and Solid Queue.

WEBrick 1.8.2: Ruby's Legacy HTTP Server Toolkit — WEBrick is best known as a simple, pure Ruby HTTP server that was in the standard library for many years (though is now in its own separate gem). v1.8.2 fixes a lot of small issues, adds Ruby 3.1 and 3.2 testing to the mix, and resolves an HTTP request smuggling vulnerability.