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Five Things I Learned About SAML from Studying a Realistic Example — SAML authentication is mad complex so it’s nice to have a simplified breakdown like this.

Ruby 3 Pattern Matching Applied to Basic Games — If you’ve been waiting for a tutorial that clearly shows a solid pattern matching use case, you can put all of your chips here. There’s also a Tic-Tac-Toe follow-up if you’re keen to cross that game off your list.

Using Ruby 3.0 to Solve Advent of Code Problems — Advent of Code is a fantastic annual set of challenges designed to let developers experiment with new techniques, approaches, and languages. Brandon used this year’s challenges as a way to explore Ruby 2.7 and 3.0 features and has the first five days wrapped up so far.

Lambda Containers with Rails; A Perfect Match! — This is the article where I saw Ken really make his pitch for running Rails apps serverlessly. He also announced that Lamby now works with Lambda’s new support for deploying functions in container images.

How to Create a AWS Lambda Layer of Your Gem Dependencies — Throwing Ruby code into the cloud with AWS Lambda is easy, but getting the heavier dependencies (e.g. nokogiri, or the http gem) working isn’t quite as easy. I worked out how to do it without heavy tooling requirements.

Using Tools to Internationalize a Rails App with a Vue.js Frontend — This starts with an existing Rails application and works through the various places that have strings (views, flash, frontend components, etc.) and works out how to automate it, resulting in a new gem.

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.

How to Completely Remove Ruby 2.7's Default Bundler — I’m not so sure about this, but it may be handy if you want to use 2.7 with an old version of Rails that requires a Bundler version prior to 2.0?

The Rocky Road to Implementing Link Prefetching in Rails — Link prefetching can make a site feel much faster, but implementing it in Rails involves getting around Turbolinks and a bit of code forensics.

CanCanCan 3.1.0 Released — It’s a minor release, but there are a couple of nice improvements and a new logo!

Getting Started with Elasticsearch and Ruby — A very basic intro but if you want to roll your own self-hosted search features, Elasticsearch is a powerful, open source option.

Lambdas Are Better Than Procs — Put differently, lambdas are more like methods and, as such, easier to handle.

Continuous Deployment of a Ruby App to Minikube with Google's Skaffold — If you want to use Kubernetes for your local development, I am not sure it gets easier than this.

The Case for Stabby Lambda Notation — The conciseness and pictorial nature of -> encourage the use of lambdas, and in my opinion, that is a Good Thing.

Rails 6: The Missing Developer Setup Guide — Going beyond the Rails Guides, Vincent sets up VS Code, Webpacker, Growl, reproducible environments, Heroku, and more. Whew. One for either beginners or if you’ve simply not started a Rails app from scratch for a while.

InvoicePrinter 2.0: Generate PDF Invoices from Ruby — It is absolutely ‘PDF week’ here in Ruby Weekly! :-)