Bookmarks (162)

Sniffer 0.5: Log and Analyze Outgoing HTTP Requests — Hooks into numerous Ruby HTTP libraries and logs outgoing requests in JSON format which can be sent elsewhere.

Ruby Memoization — Memoization is an optimization technique where the results of operations are cached based upon their arguments. It’s easy to pull off in Ruby but there are some points to keep in mind.

A Hybrid Development Docker Compose Setup for Rails — Josef looks at getting 80% of the benefits for 20% of the effort by not Dockerizing everything but focusing on where it makes most sense.

How to Use Import Maps without Rails — DHH has talked about a ‘bundler-less’ reality for Rails by way of import maps numerous times, but if you appreciate a bare bones example to understand what’s happening, Tomas is here for you.

How to Sell a One-Time Purchase in Rails with Stripe — We’re Stripe customers ourselves and it really is easy to use them for taking payments as Jeffrey demonstrates here.

▶  Discussing GraphQL with David Sanchez — GraphQL is a flexible, strongly-typed query language and this episode digs into its use in and from Rails apps. (47 minutes.)

Searchjoy 1.0: Search Analytics Made Easy — Slips into your Rails app and plugs into things like Elasticsearch, Sphinx and Solr and lets you track searches, mark conversions, then keep an eye on what users are doing.

hash_deep_diff: Get the Differences Between Two Hashes — Basically diff for hashes. Hashdiff is another option in this space.

rbenv for Windows: Manage Your App's Ruby Environment on Windows — The topic of Ruby’s support for Windows has been discussed for many years and while Windows and Ruby aren’t the best of friends, the tooling exists if you need it.

Shopify's Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust — A project to port YJIT to Rust (rather than using C, as most of CRuby is written in) has been underway for a while and progress is going really well. The Shopify-based team’s leader tells the full story here covering both the high and low points

Have You Investigated Honeybadger Lately?🕵🏽‍♀️ — Honeybadger is so much more than error monitoring! All new plans include cron monitoring, uptime monitoring, customizable public status pages, and more - all rolled into a single, easy to use platform. Sign up now and feel the power of the badger!🦡

Report of a Now-Fixed RubyGems Vulnerability — A bug in the gem yanking (unpublishing, basically) process meant that under certain conditions gems could be taken over by the owners of similarly named gems. It’s now been fixed and while the author says you might want to audit your Gemfile.lock files… you might want to see the following item first ;-)

Impact Analysis of the CVE-2022-29176 Unauthorized Package Takeover Vulnerability — This directly relates to the item above and goes into more depth analyzing the extent of the problem, why it occurred, and how WhiteSource analyzed the gems ecosystem and concludes no gems were compromised.

How to Make Ruby Run a Program Written in a 'Natural Language' — A start-from-scratch effort creating a new DSL with its own “virtual machine” so this is the kind of post you spend some time with as a thought experiment and you become a better Rubyist.

On Ruby 3.1’s Incompatible Changes to Its YAML Module (Psych 4) — Ruby 3.1 introduced Psych (Ruby’s core YAML parser) 4.0, a major upgrade that breaks compatibility in how it loads files by default and how it handles arguments (dropping support for legacy positional arguments).

▶  Active Record Tricks — Tips and tricks videos are always popular, and this one covers a lot in just 12 minutes including read only attributes, inserting and upserting, toggling booleans, and single table inheritance.

Breaking the Monolith at Twitch — Twitch is one of a large group of successful companies that began life running as a monolithic Rails app (a la GitHub or Twitter) but they’ve written about where they went from there, how Go entered the picture, and their current practices which are, sadly, mostly Ruby free. (Note there’s a part two.)

Bootstrapping with Rails Generators and Templates — Rails is famed for its ‘batteries included’ approach of having most things you need ready to use, but what about going a step further with more of your app defined in advance? Hans-Jörg shows off generators and templates and how they can help.

Hosting Ruby Apps (for Free) on Oracle Cloud with Dokku — It’s interesting to see a different cloud offering getting mentioned once in a while. Oracle Cloud has a rather curious free tier with a lot of potential, though the ideas in this post could apply to almost any VPS.

Improve Your Specs' Quality with Branch Coverage — Enable branch coverage in SimpleCov (the code coverage tool) to make sure you aren’t lulled to sleep with line coverage and end up leaving bugs in your code.

How to Avoid Race Conditions in Rails — There are many ways to avoid race conditions, and Rails/ActiveRecord has a solution for each one so knowing the benefits of each approach makes sure you grab the right tool for the job.

How to Run a Virtual Retreat — Something more companies have surely been doing in the last year or two.

What Do You Think of 'Scoped Gems'? — Here’s an interesting proposal whose author wants more eyes on. The basic idea is that gems can be scoped to specific users – for example s3@aws-sdk rather than aws-sdk-s3 – so that separate RubyGems users can use whatever names they like (within their scope) and also to give end users reassurance that a gem is associated...