Bookmarks (1622)

Packwerk: Enforce Boundaries for More Modular Rails Apps — A gem created at Shopify that can be used to enforce boundaries and modularize Rails applications.

Rubyspeed: Compile Basic Ruby Functions to C — Certainly an experimental work in progress, this project compiles (the most primitive of) Ruby functions to C which results in a sizable performance boost. A fun tangent is that the Hacker News post about this project turned into a big debate about the continuing relevance of Ruby (or not) 😏

▶  Triage with Me: 11 Issues and 2 PRs in 1.5 Hours — The creator of CodeTriage takes us behind the curtain to see how he triages and works with issues on open source projects. Well worth watching if you’re curious how to productively work on open source projects or are just curious how another experienced developer does so.

Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith — This is a long post about the status of Shopify’s move to modularity with some wonderful lessons learned and insights on how they got here and where they are going based on what they’ve learnt.

Reduce Test Time Without Sacrificing Security 🚀 — Run your build infrastructure on your terms. Self-hosted agents mean the choice between the speed of cloud-native and security of on-prem is over. Buildkite works with all source code tools, languages and platforms, speeding up mobile tests at scale. Try now.

Puma 5: We Made Puma Faster With Sleep Sort — Puma 5 includes three experimental performance enhancements that should reduce latency at high loads and memory usage. They need people to try them and report back, so upgrade and get experimenting.

▶  Russ Hanneman from Silicon Valley Loves StimulusReflex 3.3 — If you like the TV show Silicon Valley this will give you a laugh as the creators of StimulusReflex, a way to bring reactive, real-time features to Rails, got the Russ Hanneman character to endorse their 3.3 release 😂 The 3.3 release focuses on Morphs, a fresh way to think about how StimulusReflex updates your live pages. Even if you don't like this, it's always fun to see an open source project trying a novel way to get the word out. GitHub repo.

Staff Engineer (SF) — Join our team, and help us make mortgage closings fast, secure, transparent, and error-free.

Writing a Ractor Base Job Scheduler — Another Ractor article (which is great), this one focusing on the most parallel-worthy of tasks: job processing. There are some issues, but it’s still very promising.

Interacting with NFC on a Raspberry Pi from Ruby with Taptag — Near Field Communications (NFC) is a wireless point-to-point protocol and Taptag works with the Waveshare PN532.

Tracking a PaperTrail Version from a Single Request with Correlation UUIDs — PaperTrail provides a way to track/audit changes to data managed by Active Record models. Here’s how to go a step further from just tracking the history of an object to the specific request that caused changes.

Modern Rails Flash Messages — A two-part series that uses ViewComponent, Tailwind CSS, and Stimulus to make nice flash messages complete with features like soft-delete.

The defined? Keyword in Ruby — block_given? may be slower than defined?(yield) but I know which is easier to read.

Principal Engineer (SF/Remote) — Come be a leader here. Raise the bar. We're changing user behavior in an entire industry and need strong engineers to join up.

Circuitry: Decouple Apps Using SNS Fanout with SQS Processing — If you’re interested in decoupling your app using message and event passing via AWS’s notification and queue services, this provides a framework to do so.

▶  Discussing Ruby 3.0 JIT and Its Performance Benefits — The Ruby Rogues panelists are joined by Takashi Kokubun who’s developing Ruby’s still experimental JIT functionality – they cover the progress, problems, and strategies for implementing JIT in Ruby to meet expected performance goals.