~rubyweekly | Bookmarks (260)

▶  So You Think You Know Git.. — GitHub co-founder Scott Chacon gave an engrossing talk at FOSDEM 2024 earlier this month that’s well worth 45 minutes of your time. He dug into lots of interesting areas of git and associated techniques, as well as a few GitHub bits and pieces. If you don’t have 45 minutes, good news – there’s a set of blog...

What It Was Like Working for GitLab — A detailed retrospective of the author’s experience working at GitLab, as well as a little conflict he feels over GitLab’s use of Ruby and Rails. (If you recognize the name, Yorick used to work on Rubinius and the Oga gem.)

Running Open-Source AI Models Locally with Ruby — If you want to use company or sensitive data with AI models, or simply don’t want to give OpenAI or Google any more money, running them locally is a good idea. Running an LLM in Ruby isn’t really viable, but Ollama makes it easy to run models locally and then call into them from your Ruby...

How to Deploy a Rails App to a VPS with Kamal — Building your app is only half the battle – the other half is deploying it. Learn how easy deploying can be with Kamal. 🚀

An Overview of RSpec Test Types in Rails — Knowing how and what to test can feel more like art than science. This list of the test types that are important for practical Rails testing, along with RSpec examples of each, may help you refine your approach.

The Secret Tool to Launch Your Rails Business in the App Stores — Spoiler: It’s Turbo Native ;-)

Using Solid Queue in Development with Docker and on Heroku — Solid Queue, open sourced by 37signals last month, is a database-based queuing backend for Active Job.

Phlex: A Component-Oriented View Framework — Phlex lets you treat everything on a page as a distinct component and build them all with Ruby itself. We’ve mentioned it a few times in the past year, but it now has a nifty new homepage that communicates the idea well and gets you up to speed quickly.

HTTP.rb / HTTP 'The Gem!' 5.2: The Fast Ruby HTTP Client — I’m a big fan of the http gem, both for its memorable name 😏 and because it’s flexible while having an easy to remember API (the wiki docs are a big help, too). v5.2 is the first release since 2022, though, so it’s good to see it getting an update.

Mission Control — Jobs: Dashboard Extensions for Solid Queue — If you followed the Solid Queue release, you know it came with no web UI to manage jobs. 37signals has rectified that by open sourcing their frontend for it. GitHub repo.

after_commit Everywhere: Use Active Record Transactional Callbacks Outside of Models — Not just outside of Active Record models but, well, anywhere in your app. Check the examples in the README to get the idea.

emirb: An Experimental Build of IRB for the Browser — What a neat demo! Yusuke, of the Ruby core team, has put together this browser based IRB experience using ruby-wasm-emscripten and xterm-pty to create the terminal experience seen here. Yusuke has written more about the process here [JA] (it’s in Japanese but translates well).

Turbo 8 Released — While Turbo is mostly a suite of frontend technologies, they’re becoming fundamental for the development of fast, modern Rails apps. 8.0 introduces a DOM morphing approach for smoother and more selective page updates (example, supports the View Transition API, and can pre-load links prior to users clicking on them.

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First Steps with ruby.wasm: or How We Built Ruby Next Playground — The Ruby Next playground allows the execution of Ruby in the browser by using WASM and WASI to create an in-browser Ruby VM. This post digs into how it was built and why it could be useful. This is more about compiling and running programs than was the REPL-based emirb above.

Building Reusable UI Components in Rails with ViewComponent — ViewComponent provides a nice way to make your views a bit more modular and loosely coupled when it comes to the components they’re made up of, rather than just leaning on partials.

A Packwerk Retrospective — Packwerk is a static analysis tool to help modularize Rails apps that Shopify released in 2020. The Shopify team explains the motivation for building it, the weaknesses encountered in its approach, and how it provoked a rethink in the organization of their monolithic app.

'The Tech Stack I Chose to Build My Project' — Lucian is working on a project to provide Ruby courses over email and I enjoyed seeing his approach to the overall stack. No big surprises, but it’s nice to see a complete, modern Ruby stack outlined in one place.

Turbo Frame Search Filters — A fantastically short but sweet blog post on creating a search filter in a Rails app using the added elegance provided by Turbo Frames and Stimulus.

Share Rails-Style Secrets Across Applications — Pain with local dotenv files & duped secrets is no fun, particularly with > 1 app. Try our zero-knowledge CLI app.

How to Deal with Postgres Backups using Kamal — A look at using postgres-backup-s3 to periodically backup a database to S3 on a schedule from a Kamal deployed app.

On Ruby's Positional Arguments — The author of the latest Pickaxe book dives deep (and we do mean “deep”) into this subject, explaining how to use splats (*) and arrays, dereferencing args, when to use anonymous args, and how blocks fit in to the conversation.

Ruby's Exceptional Creatures — A fun (and dare we say whimsical) guide to exceptions, where each is represented by a different cutesy ‘creature’ (12 so far). It's not all cute drawings, though, as each page defines what each exception is for, shows how they manifest, and how you can manage them properly in your code.

Prism: Ruby 3.3's New Error-Tolerant Parser — Ruby 3.3 shipped with a much anticipated new default gem called Prism, a new parser for Ruby code that can be depended upon by third party tools that need to work with source code in a structured way. Its creator explains how it came to be and where things are heading next (and you could be a...