Bookmarks (261)

Potassium 7.0: A Rails Application Generator — Brings in things like dotenv, Yarn, Pry, Puma, Rack Timeout, Faker, Vite and more out of the box. v7 also brings things up to Rails 7 standards.

Like Redis Caching, but in < 5 Minutes — Increase throughput and lower query latency using PolyScale’s intelligent database cache. Implement in minutes.

connection_pool 2.4: A Generic Connection Pooling Library — Lots of systems have connection pools built in, but what if you want a generic one to use with whatever you wish in Ruby? Here you go.

RubyMine 2023.1 Released — The latest major version of JetBrains’ popular, though commercial, Ruby IDE lands improved Rails 7 and Ruby 3.2 support, better gem synchronization on WSL, faster code completion, and a variety of UI improvements.

Pairing with GPT-4 to Write Ruby — Learn how to take advantage of our new GPT-powered friends by pair-programming with them. As it turns out, our jobs may be safe for a while longer but you can definitely have a little fun and perhaps break through those “coder’s block” moments with it.

The Two Approaches We Take to Upgrade a Rails App — Ernesto upgrades Rails apps for a living so this is written from the perspective of upgrading larger apps with numerous stakeholders where you need to spend as much time planning as upgrading.

▶  Discussing Pitchfork, Falcon, and Performant HTTP Servers — Shopify’s Jean Boussier went on the Ruby Rogues Podcast to talk about Pitchfork, Shopify’s new optimized Ruby HTTP server designed to minimize memory usage by maximizing Copy-on-Write performance.

Ruby, OCI8 and an M1 Mac — While you may not have to connect to Oracle systems, this process can help if you’re using anything that hasn’t released an ARM version yet. (JRuby is another option in this case.)

Live Elements: Interactive, Real Time Apps without JavaScript — Sam saw Phoenix LiveView, which offers Elixir developers rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML, and thought “Yea, I definitely want that.” Luckily, Rails 7 has most of the parts and Sam has brought together Turbo Streams and Stimulus to get very close in a solution he calls Live Elements which he then compares to...

Using Ruby with Visual Studio Code — VS Code has been a popular choice of editor for Rubyists for ages but now there’s an official page in the VS Code documentation with advice on how to get things set up with the Ruby LSP extension.

Memetria: Secure, Scalable, Full-Featured Redis 7 Hosting — The latest Redis features, instrumented and scaled with the tools teams need as they grow.

RuboCoping with Legacy: Bring Your Ruby Code Up to 'Standard' — If this triggers déja-vu, this is a classic post that’s been brought up to date. It explains how to use RuboCop, the linter and formatter, to bring legacy Ruby code up to ‘standard’, fix code style issues in legacy codebases, etc. A Gemfile refactoring is also suggested to improve readability and reduce Bundler’s...

▶  Auto-Submitting Forms and Custom Turbo Stream Actions — Learn how to auto-submit forms when a user changes a value and use custom Turbo Stream Actions to update the page.

Generating PDFs in Rails (and Zipping Them Up) — Grover is a gem that can transform HTML into PDFs (or PNGs or JPEGs) by way of Chromium and Puppeteer.

Heya 0.8.0: A Campaign Mailer for Rails Apps — Think of it “like ActionMailer, but for timed email sequences.” LGPLv3 licensed.

🙂  Gemoji 4.1: Work with Emoji Images and Names — 4.1 adds some characters from the Emoji 15 standard including various hands, faces, shapes, and a moose, goose, donkey and jellyfish..

Inline SVG 1.9: Embed SVG Documents into Rails Views and Style with CSS — Works with Rails 5 through 7 and adds helper methods that can read and display SVG documents via Sprockets or Webpacker as appropriate.

How to Send Emails in Rails with Postmark — How to set up Action Mailer and Postmark to deliver transactional emails.

Parklife: Render a Rack App to a Static Build — Render a Rack app (Rails/Sinatra/etc) to a static site so it can be served by Netlify, Now, GitHub Pages, S3, or another static server. It can crawl your app following all links, or you can specify them yourself via a DSL.

How to Benchmark Your Ruby Gem — A look at the general approach to take an existing gem (most likely your own), measure its performance, improve that performance, and then eventually repeat that process.

AnyCable Off Rails: Connecting Twilio Streams with Hanami — This tutorial creates a (non-Rails!) web app using Go and Hanami to transcribe a chat into text using Vosk and a load of other tools. There’s a great chance you’ll be exposed to something new here.

Bitmap Matrix and Undirected Graphs in Ruby — Our favorite Ruby and Rails core team member is working through a book that challenged him to build an interference graph for doing register allocation via graph coloring. Fantastic, and if you ever follow in his footsteps, you may find this code useful.. 😁

Progressive Application Development with Hotwire — If you like long, step-by-step tutorials that progressively(..) build something while teaching, then you will enjoy this one that focuses on an older concept with the latest tools.

Comparing Adjacent Elements in Arrays — A look at two methods of comparing sequential elements in using some lesser-known enumerable methods. Zip these into your rotation?

Basic Time-Series Data with Rails and Postgres — A good place to start if you are dealing with time-series data and aren’t ready to jump to something more dedicated.

Programming Guitar Greatness — How would you model a system to play the guitar? Start simply and evolve the code until it comes together like a song about object orientation and groovy best practices.

Modelling Business Logic with ECS? — Entity Component System (ECS) is an architectural pattern often used in game development, but Paweł wanted to experiment and see if the ideas could translate into a regular app too.

Invisible Ink: Keep Your Plain Text Secret in Plain Sight — Encrypt sensitive text information so it can be added to a repo or simply hidden from the wrong people: “It’s built on top of the feature that allows for encrypted credentials in Rails, but it’s application agnostic.”

Flipper 0.28: Fast, Simple Feature Flags for Ruby — If you want to have direct control over which users have access to which features in your app on a granular basis, this is for you.

Singed 0.2: Get a Flamegraph Anywhere in Your Code Base — Powered by stackprof (the call stack profiler), rbspy (the sampling CPU profiler), and speedscope (the flamegraph visualizer).

Understanding the Rails Router — The routing of requests is a fundamental feature of most webapp frameworks and Rails’ router has become particularly powerful over the years. Akshay digs deep into it here.

Prosopite: Rails N+1 Query Auto-Detection with Zero False Positives — A library that monitors SQL queries and looks for various patterns that imply N+1 queries are going on.

Railsochrome: Print Logs from Ruby in the Chrome Console — Billed as an ‘experimental’ solution for now, it relies upon a browser extension to let your Ruby/Rails app pass things into Chrome.

Moneta 1.6.0: A Unified Interface to Key/Value Stores — Supports a variety of systems (about 20 in all – including Redis, Memcached, SQLite, a simple in memory store, PStore, and even Active Record) and aims to offer consistent behavior across them with full configuration of the serialization process and atomic operations.

VideoInfo 4.0: Get Video Info From Dailymotion, Vimeo, Wistia, and YouTube URLs — If you’ve got Dailymotion, Vimeo, Wistia or YouTube video URLs and want to grab useful metadata about them..

Coltrane: A Music Theory Library with Added CLI — Generate chord progressions for various music genres and see how to play them on different instruments. Find the progression of chord sequences. Dig up scales after providing some chords. There’s a lot to enjoy here.

Assigning a Default Value to an Attribute in Active Record — No callbacks like before_validation involved, but using attribute instead.

▶  Using ChatGPT to Write an AWS Cognito + Sinatra Integration — Continuing on the AI-in-development theme, it’s early days for this sort of thing but the initial results are promising. (5 minutes.)

Translating XML/Epub with DeepL and ChatGPT — The author maintains two gems for translating documents and shares a little of what’s involved and how ChatGPT isn’t ready to replace DeepL for translation just yet.

Automatic Preloading in Rails: The Dream That Came True? — The ar_lazy_preload gem tries to resolve N+1 problems in Rails by enabling auto-preloading for your queries. In this post, Evgeniy digs into the problem and explains why “this is very important and would help you avoid many pitfalls.”

A Closer Look at Ruby 3.2's WASI Integration — Some background on the relevance WebAssembly and WASI followed by a look at the technical details and processes including the provision of a virtual file system and the addition of context switching. It’s early days but shows a lot of promise.

🤗  Little Gestures Make Our Tools and Community Better — Sometimes it’s the little things that can make an ecosystem, community, or tool more welcoming to people who are just getting started, says Brad. I agree. Keep Brad’s thoughts in mind when working on your own tools or community resources.

Awesome Ruby: A Curated List of 900+ Libraries and Tools — Every year or two, we link to this epic, categorized collection of (useful!) Ruby goodies. It continues to be updated frequently with new entries added (like VideoInfo, just today) and you’re encouraged to contribute your own projects too.