Issue 474 - This week's Ruby news (21)

Hashie 4.0: Classes and Mixins That Make Hashes More Powerful — Bring things like coercion, access methods, indifferent access, and more to hashes quickly. I’ve seen this used as a dependency in many libraries.

RubyCritic 4.2.0: Now With SimpleCov Support — RubyCritic is a tool for producing reports about your Ruby code’s quality. It uses other tools like Reek, Flay, Flog, and now SimpleCov to produce reports about things like complexity, code smells, and test coverage.

full_request_logger: Make Full Request Logs Accessible Via Web UI — Writes Rails logs to an auto-expiring Redis key. “This is ideal for when you’re testing a feature in the wild with production-levels of data, which may reveal performance or other issues that you didn’t catch in development.”

Slate: Beautiful Static Documentation for Your API — Built on top of Middleman, Slate is being used by an impressive list of companies, so it’s probably good for you, too.

Invisible: Override Methods While Maintaining Their Original Visibility — So, you can’t accidentally make a private method public by overriding it. Neat.

HTTPX: A Ruby HTTP Library 'for Tomorrow' — httpx has a slew of features, the most interesting being HTTP/2 support and concurrent requests by default.

A Quick Speed Update on Ruby 2.7 Preview 2 — Last week we announced the release of Ruby 2.7 preview 2 (final due on Christmas Day as usual) and Ruby benchmarker extraordinaire Noah has already put it through its paces.. don’t get too excited, it’s barely faster than 2.6 so far.

JRuby 9.2.9.0 Released — The popular JVM-based Ruby implementation takes a few more baby steps forward with the complete Ruby 2.5.7-level standard library, RubyGems 2.7.10, thread safety improvements, and better Java module support.

Taming Large Rails Applications with Private ActiveRecord Models — The biggest gain here is a ‘privacy by default’ approach to models (and their underlying data) but there are peripheral benefits around simpler testing, among other things.

Managing PostgreSQL's Partitioned Tables with Ruby — pg_partition_manager is a new gem for maintaining partitioned tables that need to be created and dropped over time as you add and expire time-based data in your app.

Streaming Large ZIP Files in Rails — A thorough article that is download framework agnostic. I especially enjoyed the content around HTTP headers and how they affect the browser’s behavior.

Using Bind Parameters in Active Record for Security and Performance — Arel makes it possible to formulate such complex queries now that writing your own SQL is rarely necessary, but if you do..

WebSockets: A Deep Dive into the Underlying Protocol of Action Cable — Learn about the nitty gritty technical details and limitations of WebSockets when building apps with Action Cable.

Improving Performance with Flame Graphs — This post explains a quick and easy set up for Rails alongside an explanation of how to read a flamegraph to find opportunities for optimization.

Go Is The New Ruby(?) — This is not so much a comparison to Ruby as it is to Rust, citing the happiness of a Ruby developer is analog to their Go counterpart.

9 Industries Where Flagship Companies Choose Ruby on Rails — The list of industries is impressive, as are the companies within. Another arrow in the “Rails ain’t dead” quiver.

Find A Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in dev roles and is completely free for job seekers.

Senior Web Developer at Dr. Bill (Remote OK) — Dr. Bill helps Canadian doctors save time by streamlining their billing. Help lead our team into the next phase of growth.

eBook: Best Practices for Optimizing Postgres Query Performance — Learn how to get a 3x performance improvement on your Postgres database and 500x reduced data loaded from disk in this free pganalyze eBook.