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Groupdate 6.2: A Simple Way to Group Temporal Data — For example, to group data by day, week, hour, etc.

Super Standard: How to Add Gem Extensions and Custom Rules to 'Standard Ruby' — Standard aims to be the “one bike shed to rule them all” for Rubocop configuration and, before this release, that shed only came in one size. However, now you can add other tools to the shed, which is nice.

Ronin 2.0.0: Ruby's Security Research Toolkit — An ecosystem of projects covering areas as diverse as crafting SQL injections, running exploits, mutating data, making HTTP requests, and performing other vulnerability testing tasks. It has a great FAQ that fleshes out the story more.

Basic Business Intelligence on Rails with Blazer — BI tools are expensive, but Blazer is free and has a lot of nice features, like smart columns, caching, forecasting, and tons of chart types. If you’re just getting started with BI, start here or check out Blazer's live demo.

On Nested Modules — Ruby provides two different ways to define nested modules. This post explains the difference between them and how to decide which one to use. It also explains the Module.nesting method which returns the list of modules nested when called.

How to Bundle Assets in a Rails Engine — The author of Avo Admin shares what they’ve learned about including assets cleanly.

Spin Up Your Hanami Apps Easily with Hanamismith — There are a bunch of offerings around templated, preconfigured Rails apps and now there is one for Hanami too. (Hanami 2.0.3 has just dropped, BTW.)

⭐️  This Gem is Mentionable — Mentionable is a gem that provides support for inbound Webmentions and microformats in Rails apps, and it’s neat to see a gem author explain their intentions so transparently as in this post.

pgslice: Postgres Partitioning 'As Easy As Pie' — A tool that can either generate or generate and execute the required SQL statements to partition either new or existing tables with nothing to install server-side.

Generating a Rust Based Gem Skeleton with Bundler — Bundler 2.4 (more on that below) can now generate a Rust-oriented skeleton for developing gems by way of a new --ext=rust argument. Josef walks through what’s produced here. We look forward to seeing even more Rust powered extensions as time goes by and this will only help.

Bundler 2.4 Released — The new PubGrub resolver algorithm is more than a fantastic name, it’s smarter, faster, and has better error messages. A big release for such a fundamental part of the Ruby experience.

🧈 Retire your Legacy CMS with ButterCMS — ButterCMS is your new content backend. We’re SaaS so we host, maintain, and scale the CMS. Enable your marketing team to update website + app content without needing you. Try the #1 rated SaaS Headless CMS for your Ruby app today. Free for 30 days.

Packing a Ruby 3.1.3 App into a Single Executable — Eric took Ruby Packer, a tool for packing a Ruby app into a single executable, and created a fork that works with Ruby 3.1. It’s early days and there’s a bit of hoop jumping to do, but it’s a promising step forward.

An Overview of Rails 7.1 Features — A three-part series on all the new in Rails 7.1, and there is a lot of it. All told, Emmanuel covers sixty new items, so get a cuppa and start figuring out what these changes mean to your app.

EngTagger: English Language Part-of-Speech Tagger Library — A probability based, corpus-trained tagger that assigns POS (Part of Speech) tags to English text. A Ruby port of Perl’s Lingua::EN::Tagger.

Mapkick: Create Beautiful JavaScript Maps with One Line of Ruby — This is brilliant if you need a map in your Ruby or Rails apps, and it supports many options around markers, tooltips, controls, and more.

Elevate Your Systems Performance with TelemetryHub — Unlock insights and optimize performance with our advanced monitoring and analytics solution. Improve uptime and efficiency with TelemetryHub.

Adventure on the Bonny Slope with Bridgetown 1.2 — The popular Ruby-based progressive site generator and full-stack framework has its first big release of the year featuring a new plugin configuration format, slotted content, easier access to data, and more.

RGeo 3.0 Released: A Geospatial Data Library — Implements the industry standard OGC Simple Features Specification for representing objects like points, lines and polygons along with a set of operations. The examples in the documentation will give you an idea as to its use.

🔠 Add CSV Import to Your App with UseCSV — Learn how to use our JS plugin and API to give your users a delightful data import experience. Smart auto-column matching and validation rules included. Results are sent to your app as a webhook or frontend callback.