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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! :-)

Fail Fast and Fail Often: Handling API Errors at Scale — What do you do when 100,000 Sidekiq jobs fail every day? If at first you don’t succeed, retry, retry again.

Faster Heroku Deploys with Rails and Webpacker — With a new default asset bundler (webpack) we are back to old problems, like rebuilding it’s not needed and not caching build assets. Don’t worry, it’s easy enough to fix.

How to Visualize the Age of Dependencies in Your Ruby Projects — A neat little script that spits out the age of your project’s various dependencies which will then make it easy to visualize them.

First Impressions of Fullstaq Ruby — Find out how to reduce your application memory consumption with a new MRI Ruby distribution from Hongli Lai, one of the original creators of Passenger (and Ruby Enterprise Edition, which was a similar idea in the 1.8 era).

Learn How to Build Chat with Ruby on Rails and Dialogflow — Learn the inner workings of Stream Chat paired with Ruby on Rails and Dialogflow with this in-depth technical tutorial.

Lefthook, Crystalball, and Git Magic for a Smooth Development Experience — Use git hooks to stop pushing broken code and automate updating gems and database migrations between branches to save time and headaches.

Building Messaging Between Ruby/Rails Applications with ActiveMQ — ActiveMQ is a popular message broker that supports multiple protocols and has an AWS-hosted service option.

'Sorbetting' a Gem, or The Story of the First Adoption — Last week, we featured the release of Sorbet, a type checker for Ruby. This story covers the practicalities of integrating Sorbet type checking into a Ruby gem. Conclusion? “it’s still far from bringing the development happiness..”

Danger On Rails: Make Robots Do Some Code Review for You! — Danger runs “common code review chores” in your CI process, which is one more step to Automating All The Things™.

4 Lesser Known Ways to Use Ruby’s Enumerable Module — A couple of the tricks here are new in 2.6, such as endless ranges & the shorter step syntax (%).

Boost Your Shell Scripting with Ruby and Rexe — Rexe “executes Ruby code on the command line” and offers many conveniences beyond vanilla ruby.

Pattern Matching – Second Impressions — A Quest for Pattern Matching in Ruby was a popular article 3 years ago, so what are the author’s thoughts about what’s coming to Ruby core?

Creating a Basic, Native Ruby Extension in C — It’s not entirely straightforward but this tutorial breaks down the key steps.