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validates_email_format_of: Validate Email Addresses Against RFC 2822 and RFC 3696 — “This gem is the O.G. email validation gem for Rails.” It can now validate email addresses using internationalized domain names too.

Memetria: Secure, Scalable Redis Hosting — High performance Redis hosting with large key tracking, detailed metrics, and a superior uptime record.

SQLite on Rails: The How and Why of Optimal Performance — Stephen is the person I look to when it comes to thinking about using SQLite in Ruby and Rails, and he’s been digging deep into the hows and whys of getting the best performance out of a SQLite + Rails setup. Here, he also covers some of the problems he’s stumbled upon (and...

A Reintroduction to Ruby's Heredocs — If you think you know everything you need to know about heredocs (essentially a syntax for multi-line strings), this article might throw up some surprises.

How I Read the Rails Source Code — How do you start reading the code for a codebase the size (and age) of Rails? Grab the debug gem (Rails includes it) and use Bundler to start your coding journey. You can use a similar approach for running all (or some) of Rails’ tests, too.

Need to Pay Down Tech Debt on a Budget? Let’s Talk 🚀 — Too many vulnerabilities? Too much tech debt slowing you down? FastRuby.io’s maintenance services start at $2,000/month.

▶  Implementing One Time Payments with Pay and Stripe — Pay is a gem that implements a payments engine for Rails and you can quite quickly integrate it with Stripe to get one-time payments in your apps. (39 minutes.)

Making a (Sidekiq) Batch Recipe — If you have multiple jobs that can run concurrently, but you need to bring their individual outputs together, you can batch them and listen for callbacks, provided you’re a Sidekiq Pro user.

sqlite3-ruby 2.0: The Popular Ruby SQLite Driver — As implied by the version number, this is a major release and, notably, drops support for Ruby 2.7. Native gems are now shipped for 11 platforms, newly including an array of Musl-based Linux ones. It now runs SQLite 3.45.3 and there are numerous smaller improvements.

Gemfast: A Drop-in Replacement for Geminabox — A new self-hosted Rubygems server written in Go, so it can be compiled down a single file and easily deployed on multiple operating systems. You can mirror and cache gems from the main RubyGems registry, as well as serve up your own internal gems, of course.

APM Deployment That Isn’t Painful and Is Free - Try Scout Monitoring — Renaissance developers, rejoice. One gem, five minutes to performance insights. No DevOps team required.

Zammad 6.3: A Web-Based Open Source Customer Support System — A long standing, full scale Rails app (currently on Rails 7.0) that we first linked to seven years ago! If you need an app to handle an influx of emails for management by a team of agents, this is for you. Screenshots.

Prism in 2024 — Ruby 3.3 included a new standard library called Prism, a Ruby language parser that can be used internally by Ruby itself or as a library by your own code. It’s been a huge effort, and Kevin shares the full story of Ruby parsing (starting all the way back in 1994!) and how Prism is rapidly becoming a key part of...

🇯🇵  Matz on Static vs Dynamic Typing — This article is in Japanese, so get your browser’s translation feature ready. It’s a transcript of thoughts by Ruby’s creator (in a talk given in 2022) on the pros and cons of static and dynamic typing, and why Ruby hasn’t adopted type declarations so far (complexity and potential bad feelings in the broader Ruby community).

A Docs-First Approach to Rails API Development? — Writing documentation for APIs is rarely an exciting job and often gets left till last, but what if you wrote it first? This article looks at how this can work in practice, and introduces Skooma, a new Ruby library for validating API implementations against OpenAPI documents.

▶  Setting up Ruby and Rails on Windows and WSL — If you’re considering 'doing a DHH' and giving Windows a try for Ruby development, this quick look at setting up a fresh Windows 11 environment for Rails development could be very handy.

Using Lambdas and Callables for Deferred Evaluation, Control Flow, and New Language Patterns — When might you write a block vs a “stabby lambda?” Procs and blocks and lambdas (oh my!) are fantastic and while Ruby has conventions and patterns to follow, there’s a lot you can do with the basics, as Jared shows here.

How Our Amazon ECS Autoscaler Works — Building an autoscaler for ECS was a bit more complex than a Heroku add-on, so here’s a taste of our secret sauce.

Abstract Methods and NotImplementedError — Learn what the NotImplementedError exception is actually for and some other approaches for handling situations where abstract classes don’t provide methods meant to be implemented in their subclasses.

Creating a Flappy Bird Clone with Ruby — How has it been ten years since Flappy Bird was the hit game of the moment?

How PlanetScale Makes Schema Changes — Did you know Rails powers the popular MySQL platform’s main API? Here’s a look at how they approach handling schema changes at scale by separating migrations from deploys, along with some GitHub Actions and PlanetScale’s own magic.

Phlex 1.10.0: Build Object Oriented View in Ruby — A minor release by number, a pretty big release by features! Phlex lets you treat everything in a view as a distinct component and manage them as plain old Ruby objects. v1.10 unveils some exciting experimental features including selective rendering, component kits, and CSV view rendering – all explained in detail here.

form_props: The Power of Rails Forms, Now for React Too — If you want the convenience of form_with but when building forms in React apps, this is for you. GitHub repo.

CrystalRuby: Embed Crystal Code Directly in Ruby — Crystal is a Ruby inspired programming language that boasts a lot of great features and is well worth a try IMHO. One benefit is performance, and this gem lets you write Crystal code, inlined in Ruby, giving you a potential performance boost without a huge shift in syntax. New and YMMV!