Bookmarks (2483)

ffi-libc: Useful Ruby FFI Bindings for libc — Bindings to the libc library which allow accessing certain low-level C functions that Ruby does not (e.g. alarm(2) and getifaddrs(3)).

Taylor: An Open-Source Game Engine with Ruby Scripting — Taylor is implemented in C++, but the scripting language is mRuby.

ActiveEventStore: Rails Event Store in a More Rails Way — If you’ve used Rails Event Store, you know it’s great but pretty advanced. This is an effort to make using RES more like the other Active* frameworks.

RSpec Tracer: A Specs Dependency Analysis Tool — Maintains a list of files used for each test which enables skipping tests in subsequent runs if none of those files change.

Using Ruby for Ebook Publishing — The author of Deployment from Scratch enumerates how he uses Ruby in the publishing process, including PDF (and PDF preview) generation, text manipulation, image preview, and more. I'm always a fan of using Ruby as glue in non-Web scenarios like this!

TenderJIT: A JIT for Ruby, Written in Ruby — An interesting project being worked on by esteemed Ruby and Rails core team member Aaron ‘tenderlove’ Patterson. If this sort of thing interests you, he’s running a live session on September 30 which digs into how JITs work and how to implement one, and you can register here.

Building a Reliable Webhook Delivery System Sucks — Skip the grunt work and let Hook Relay manage all your webhooks for you. Inbound and Outbound? ✅ Automated retries plus delivery history for your users? ✅ Visualize Stripe-quality webhooks for your app, now click here to make it a reality in minutes.

Building a Real-Time Chat App in Rails with ActionCable and Turbo — A walkthrough creating users, chat rooms, and private chats using the shiniest, new tools in Rails.

JRuby 9.3.0.0 Released — The popular JVM-based (Java 8-17 supported, as well as OpenJDK) Ruby implementation gets a new release which is now updated to be compatible with Ruby 2.6.8 standards (in comparison, JRuby 9.2.x was/is Ruby 2.5 compatible).

📕  Preorder for 'Ruby GC in Under Two Hours' Book — Jemma Issroff (of Tip of the week fame, amongst other things) has been writing a book on the Ruby garbage collector that is focused on loading you up with info in as short a time as possible. Mark this down and sweep it up?

How to Reduce Memory Bloat in Ruby — A handful of tips, but with more of an introduction to some of what’s going on behind the scenes in Ruby regarding memory management.

'Move Over Rake, Thor is the New King' — Rake is the longest running and most popular task runner in the Ruby space but Thor presents a compelling alternative (and is reasonably long running itself).

Free Index Advisor for Postgres: Get Ideal Index Recommendations — Paste your query and schema data and the pganalyze Index Advisor recommends the ideal index that covers a specific query.

Let's Read Eloquent Ruby, Chapter 4 — The latest chapter in Brandon’s walk through Russ Olsen’s Eloquent Ruby covers some string methods.

Buffered IO Streams in Ruby — Ruby IO may not immediately write where you are asking it to. This post looks at where data written to a stream goes and when it may or may not be committed where you would expect it to.

Use compact_blank to Remove Empty Strings from Arrays and Hashes — A nicety in Active Support and an alternative to something like .reject { |e| e.nil? || e&.empty? }

Mapping Rails to Hanami — A side-by-side look at the various abstractions of each framework, and while this definitely is Hanami-colored, the mapping is quite informative.

Teaching by Filling in Knowledge Gaps — A good idea and something that used to really keep the blog ecosystem going at one point.

Power Tools for Analyzing Your Heroku Logs — The biggest tool here is Angle Grinder, a real-time log analysis tool that makes parsing, extracting, and aggregating bits out of your logs simple.

How to Build a Search Engine with Ruby and Rails — Search is easy…until it isn’t, and that’s when you start diving into raw SQL or creating functions in the database. What if you made your Ruby code smarter and more flexible?

Jekyll and the Genesis of the Jamstack — The creator of Bridgetown laments what he sees as the waning of the popular Jekyll static site generator but looks forward to the bright future of SSGs.

First Impressions of Ruby 3.1's Shorthand Hash Syntax — Remember when Ruby 1.9 added the { a: 10 } style format? This change is smaller but opens up quite a few interesting (and confusing) ideas, especially the ability to define a method as a key-value pair.