~rubyweekly | Bookmarks (176)

has_some_of_many: Optimized Top-N-Per-Group Active Record Associations — Adds optimized association methods (has_one_of_many, has_some_of_many) for ‘top N’ queries to Active Record using efficient JOIN LATERAL queries.

AutoHtml: Filters That Transform Plain Text Into HTML Code — For situations where even Markdown might be overkill (although it is an option..)

Ruby Next: Transpile Modern Ruby Code to Run on Older Versions — An interesting way to get Ruby code written with the latest syntax to run on older versions or alternative implementations (like mruby or Opal, say). This playground shows off the basic idea, and this could be useful for library maintainers or anyone who wants to experiment. GitHub repo.

Optimizing Ruby’s JSON — Rails core team member Jean concludes a seven-part series going super deep into efforts made to significantly boost the performance of Ruby’s json library, with the end results trumping many of the alternatives. We linked to this when Jean began the series, but now the whole epic journey is here to enjoy.

Using CloudFlare Turnstile to Protect Certain Pages on a Rails App — Turnstile is a free service that replaces CAPTCHAs with Cloudflare’s proprietary bot detection approach.

Stealthly Browsing and Scraping with Ferrum — Ferrum is a Ruby library for remotely controlling Chrome and Harrison shares some tips for staying under the radar when using it. (As always with these things, obey local laws and use your best judgment as to what is responsible.)

Rage: An HTTP API Framework Compatible with Rails — There are plenty of ‘alternative’ Ruby webapp and HTTP API approaches (e.g. Sinatra, Roda, or Hanami) but ‘Rails compatibility’ is the big win for this high performance, fiber-based API-only option. v1.12.0 adds a Redis adapter for scaling Cable-based apps across servers.

Lrama: Pure Ruby LALR Parser Generator — An official Ruby project to implement an LALR parser generator in pure Ruby with a goal of providing error tolerant Ruby parsing.

🚀 Need to Upgrade to Rails 8.0 + Ruby 3.4 but Not Sure How? — Bonsai by FastRuby.io is the monthly upgrade service trusted by top-notch engineering teams. Upgrade with confidence.

Superglue 1.0: A Way to Bring Rails and React Together — Superglue is a library for bringing Rails and React closer together in a way that feels as natural as Rails’ default Hotwire and Stimulus-based approach to the frontend.

SyntaxFinder: Analyze Your Ruby Scripts with Prism — A new tool being worked on by Ruby core team member ko1 to find syntax patterns in Ruby code using the new Prism Ruby parser.

Campsite: A Large Rails + JavaScript SaaS App Goes 'Source Available' — Campsite is/was a webapp offering something akin to a Slack-style interface to forum-like posts for team communication. It’s a good example of a fully fledged, commercial Rails app with lots of moving parts and a surprising number of best practices, if you’d like to see how such apps are built. (Note: They say...

Yake 1.2: A DSL for Writing AWS Lambda Handlers Rake-Style — It includes the ability to write Sinatra style routes and feels like an idiomatically Ruby-ish way to work with AWS’s serverless platform.

☢️ Tech Debt, Performance or Dev Process Problems in Your App? — Our Application Assessment service can help you figure out how to deal with them.

Zverok's Guide to Ruby 3.4's Language Changes — Each year, Victor blesses us with a mammoth roundup of changes that arose in the Ruby language in the latest major version. Ruby 3.4 wasn’t one of the largest leaps forward in this sense, but he still has lots of great examples here, making this a must read/skim.

YJIT 3.4: Even Faster and More Memory-Efficient — YJIT (Yet Another Ruby JIT) is an optimizing compiler built into CRuby since Ruby 3.1 and it got even faster in Ruby 3.4 (by 5-7%). Maxime, who started Shopify’s YJIT team, explains the improvements as well as new options and techniques you can use to get more out of it.

Optimize Postgres Performance and Reduce Costs with Crunchy Bridge — YNAB (You Need A Budget) switched to fully managed Crunchy Bridge for Postgres and experienced a 30% performance increase and 10% cost reduction. YNAB enjoys seamless scaling, high availability, and expert support for a better Postgres experience.

▶  How To Build Basic Desktop Applications in Ruby — The recently released recording of a workshop given at RubyConf 2024 by the creator of the Glimmer suite of Ruby DSL-driven desktop and Web app building frameworks. We’ll have more on Glimmer in a future issue, but this is a great way to get started.

Why Bundler Checksums Are a Security Game-Changer — As the source of many of our code’s dependencies, the RubyGems system is a potential vector for security issues. Bundler 2.6 introduced checksum verification as a way to at least ensure the gems you install are identical to the ones recorded in Gemfile.lock.

What is it (in Ruby 3.4)? — A quick look at one of a minor addition to Ruby 3.4, but one that might change your everyday code because it certainly looks nicer than _1 or |i| i.

Escaping Ruby's Gem:SafeMarshal Sandbox — Gem::SafeMarshal was introduced to RubyGems as a way to ‘safely’ load marshalled specs from gems. Of course, that means folks will set out to see if it really is safe.

Back Away from the Backlog 🛑 — Your product doesn’t need bloat. Simplifying drives bigger outcomes, happier teams, and real impact. Learn how to start now.

Dissecting Puma: Anatomy of a Ruby Web Server — You might need a few cups of coffee at the ready for this epic! Dan digs into the popular Puma server for serving up Rack apps over HTTP and covers a huge amount of ground about how it works.

Rumale 1.0: A Machine Learning Library for Ruby — Offers a similar interface to Python’s Scikit-Learn for working with support vector machines, regression, perceptrons, decision trees, K-means, component analysis, and similar concepts and algorithms.