~rubyweekly | Issue 728 - DHH is screencasting again (12)

TTY::Links 0.2: Hyperlinks in Your Terminal — Test to see if a terminal supports hyperlinks and outputs them correctly if so.

▶  Rails 8: The Demo — Whether you love or loathe Rails, DHH’s 2005 ▶️ ‘build a blog in 15 minutes’ screencast introduced many of us to Ruby and Rails’ potential. Here’s DHH’s take for the Rails 8 generation. The usual scaffolding is there, but 20 years later we get a serving of JavaScript, deployment, and authentication too. (30 minutes.)

|> An Attempt at Elixir-like Pipes in Ruby — Numerous attempts have been made to bring a pipeline operator to Ruby. A newly added operator in Python inspired Victor to take another shot at it using a little AST transformation. It probably still won’t make core, but this is the sort of Ruby experimentation we all love to see.

RubyGems Adds New Maintainer Role — Previously, you either ‘owned’ a gem and could publish new versions or you did not and could not. The new “maintainer” role lands in the middle, letting people publish new versions of a gem without necessarily owning it. A good way to improve security on larger projects with numerous maintainers.

Securing Ruby’s Future: How Ruby Central is Strengthening Security — Ruby Central runs RubyGems.org, so often sits between developers and nefarious entities looking to trick us. It takes a village of sponsors (thank you!) and Rubyists (thank you!), and they’ve been busy improving MFA and building a roadmap to more secure and verifiable gems.

WorkOS: Sell to Enterprises with a Few Lines of Code — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, offering flexible, easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and FGA in minutes instead of months.

Sinatra 4.1: The Popular Ruby Webapp DSL — Now includes host authorization, rackup no longer depends on WEBrick though it's still supported (Puma is recommended instead), and fixes some Ruby 3.4 and Rack 3.1 compatibility issues. Full changelog.

Pry 0.15: The IRB Alternative / Runtime Developer Console — Despite the many improvements made to IRB in recent years, Pry remains a popular alternative. v0.15.0 adds support for Ruby 3.3 and Reline.

Automate Embedding Creation and Syncing in Postgres with pgai Vectorizer — 🚀 pgai Vectorizer automates embedding creation and syncing in Postgres with one SQL command—keeps embeddings updated, no tools needed.

Mittsu 0.5: A 3D Graphics Library for Ruby — A Three.js-inspired Ruby abstraction over OpenGL. Now with the ability to load STL models.

Nokolexbor: A Faster Drop-in Replacement for Nokogiri — A Lexbor-based HTML5 parser that claims to be “5.2x faster at parsing HTML and up to 997x faster at CSS selectors.”

Fixed Price Monthly Code Maintenance for Rails Apps — No time to do those small but critical updates and features? CodeCare will take care of necessary tweaks, bug fixes, upgrades and ongoing improvements for your app.