Issue 464 - Rails 6.0, Pong in 160 lines of Ruby, and a new Sinatra release (20)

nonschema_migrations: Separate Schema From Data Migrations in Your Rails Apps — "Splitting your data migrations from your schema migrations has a particular benefit of achieving the most consistent zero-downtime deploys you can."

RailsAdmin 2.0: An Engine That Provides a Backend Admin Interface — A Rails engine that gives you an easy interface for basic CRUD manipulation of data of your choice. Check out the live demo.

Rocketman: Event-Based/Pub-Sub Code in Ruby — Rocketman aims to be a lighter ‘stepping stone’ on the event-driven architecture continuum.

Rails 6.0: Yes, It's a Big One! — Rails 6 is out! At this point, you’ve probably heard of all the big, new features so just take it out for a spin and thank the core team. Alternatively, if you need a quick reminder:

rest-client and Other Gems Yanked Due to Malicious Code — The problem is now resolved, but the rest-client maintainer’s Rubygems.org account was hacked and versions 1.6.10-1.6.13 contained a malicious backdoor. Ensure you are not using it, and set up multi-factor authentication on your own Rubygems.org account to help avoid similar issues. A variety of other, less popular gems have also been affected, all with...

Jekyll 4.0.0 Released — Breaking changes (dropping support for things like RedCarpet), Ruby 2.4.0 or higher required, and some new caching optimizations are all in this release of the popular Ruby-based static site generator.

Sinatra 2.0.6 Released — It’s not a big release (changelog) but any release for the popular web development library/DSL is worth checking out. Jordan Owens has also joined the core team and is focusing on v3.0 work.

Highlights from Git 2.23: New Alternatives for git checkout — Yes, there’s a new version of git. The biggest tweak comes via two new commands, git switch and git restore which aim to break down the git checkout experience into something more controllable.

Backend Ruby Developer in Portland, OR — 🏕 Campground review and bookings site seeks a talented Ruby developer to work on our core API and data integrations.

A Ruby Gem Debugging Strategy — The subtitle for this post could be “using Pry to debug gems” as it’s a nice recap of the utility of Pry, the powerful Ruby REPL.

▶  A Quick Look At ActiveRecord Connection Pool Debugging — “A few weeks ago I ran into a Rails bug that caused our database pool setting to be ignored (fixed in Rails 6). In this video I step through the debugging process I used to find the cause.”

Active Storage File Upload Behind The Scenes — Active Storage is a framework, now built into Rails 6, that makes it easy to upload, process and reference files within your apps.

Methods vs Constants for Static Values — The takeaway is that how you define static values depends on who (or where) your callers live. Do you agree?

Pong Written in 160 Lines of Ruby — An example of using the DragonRuby Game Toolkit, as well as the online code playground for it. Other examples include this Ruby port of GORILLA.BAS and a Flappy Bird clone.

See Why Chef’s CTO Chose strongDM — Adam Jacob says “strongDM takes the friction out of getting end users access to the systems they need.” Zero trust access to any database, server or k8 cluster. Click here to try for free.

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