~rubyweekly | Bookmarks (11)

Fly.io ❤️ Kamal — Sam Ruby is researching changes for the Rails 8 Agile Web Development with Rails book and the forthcoming updates to Kamal and other deployment improvements are high on his list.

▶  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.)

▶  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.

▶  🤡 How to Make Your Rails App 'Fart' — Clearly intended as an April Fools’ joke, but with a nonetheless practical angle that you could hopefully use for something more edifying than fart noises.. 😅

Running Rails on AWS Elastic Beanstalk — I hadn’t heard about Elastic Beanstalk in a Ruby context for years, but it was one of the first automated ways to spin up a webapp in the cloud directly from a repo. If you're on AWS, it still works well, and Josh goes through every step here.

Changing the IRB Autocomplete Colors with Reline::Face — The release of autocomplete for IRB was marred, for some, by not looking too hot with their terminal's color scheme (leading some folks to tweak their color settings). But now there's a way to change the styling to something you prefer by adding a few lines to .irbrc instead.

The Plan for Rails 8 — There’s been a fair amount of buzz around the Rails 8 feature announcements, such as less of a need for Redis, no more Sprockets, Rack 3 support, and more progressive web app features (like push notifications). Exciting stuff.

▶  Exploring Campfire, 37signals' New 'Once' Rails App — Famous for building Rails-powered SaaS apps, 37signals is taking some steps into offering single payment, self hosted apps: the first one being a revival of their Campfire chat app. This video takes a quick, independent look at the app (including its code) or you can enjoy DHH’s own video about deploying it.

▶  How to Send Notifications in Rails with Noticed v2 — Noticed is a gem for sending various types of notification from Rails apps.

📕  Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition) Now in Print — Affectionately known as the Pickaxe due to its cover image, Programming Ruby is a book that, in its early editions, certainly helped launch the career of many a Rubyist. It’s back, focused on Ruby 3.3, and has a new lead author, Noel Rappin.

▶  Adding Turbo 8 into a Rails App — David Kimura explores the seamless updating of pages in real-time using new Turbo 8 functionality around broadcasting and morphing. (27 minutes.)