~rubyweekly | Issue 727 - Rails 8.0 pulls into the station (14)

Stringer: A Self-Hosted, 'Anti-Social' RSS Reader — A Rails app that sticks to the feed reading basics, boasting no social features or ‘fancy machine learning’ at all! It does look pretty nice though.

A New Chapter for RubyGems: How Ruby Central is Building a Sustainable Future — Ruby Central sits at the heart of the Ruby community, maintaining things like RubyGems and Bundler and running RubyConf. Here they tell the full story of RubyGems, its management, and how the new Ruby Central OSS Committee is pushing it forward.

🚂 Rails 8.0 Released (No PaaS Required) — Rails 8 has been with us for so long now, the final release almost felt like an anti-climax last week, but it’s a fantastic milestone nonetheless. Kamal steps in to improve deployment, Solid Queue lets you drop Redis and running a separate background job framework (if you wish), Propshaft replaces Sprockets, SQLite steps up to being a...

How We Made a Ruby Method 200x Faster — If you like digging into performance issues and seeing strong end results, this is for you. rack-mini-profiler and flame graphs are used to pinpoint a problem and refactor around it.

Streaming Rack with Falcon — Rack 3 adds input and output streaming to the web server interface, and here, Samuel runs through all the variations with Ruby and Rack, including how to use it with Rails. Ruby continues to shine as a solid choice for real-time, interactive, performant webapps.

▶  DragonRuby Game Toolkit: Lessons Learned — DragonRuby is a fantastic Ruby-based game engine (though it’s not CRuby) that’s no mere toy but used in hundreds of games on multiple platforms. Its creator tells the full story here, including its design, how it differs from standard Ruby, and shows off some examples.

Transformation Is Hard, but These CIOs Shared Lessons Learned 🧠 — Tips from CIOs on change, community, iteration, challenges, leadership, collaboration, and human-centered innovation.

wxRuby3: A Cross Platform GUI Library — Based on the mature wxWidgets GUI toolkit which aims to provide a native look on Windows, macOS, and Linux/GTK. Note the licensing – wxRuby3 is MIT licensed, wxWidgets is LGPL.

Literal: Runtime Type-Checking for Ruby — Provides types, structured objects, properties, and enums. The built-in types include generic structures that enable some neat use cases (e.g. check that an array is all integers, and other constraints.) It integrates nicely with Rails too. Literally, check it out.

Point-and-Click Observability in Honeybadger — Gleaning insights from your logs has never been easier with Honeybadger’s new point-and-click query mode for BadgerQL. Click to learn more!

Redmine 6.0: Ruby's OG Project Management App — A blast from the past! Redmine is a very long-standing Ruby app (now in its third decade..) that you’re sure to have used at some point, if only on Ruby’s issue tracker. It now supports Ruby 3.3 and uses Rails 7.2.

Rails Form Builder: A Copy & Paste Library of Form Building Helpers — “Since there is so much value in having this form builder be a part of your code base, we didn’t want to hide the code away in a gem.” GitHub repo.

Help Needed: Shoryuken: Amazon SQS Thread Based Message Processor for Ruby — A popular library that's just gone into ‘maintenance mode’ and is actively seeking a new maintainer, so do reach out to them if you’re interested.

Streamline Postgres with Crunchy Bridge — Honeybadger moved from self-hosted Postgres to Crunchy Bridge, gaining expert support, saving time on routine maintenance, and simplifying compliance. Discover how Crunchy Bridge can take the burden off your team and let you focus on growth.