Issue 483 - Yes, we're still excited about Ruby 2.7 (26)

Reverse Markdown: Ruby Gem to Convert HTML into Markdown — There are a lot of libraries to convert Markdown into HTML, but what about the other way round?

FString: Python-esque 'F-Strings' for Ruby — An experimental gem bringing Python 3’s formatted string literals syntax to Ruby. I don’t think I’d switch to this approach but it’s interesting to look at.

Ruby 2.7 Commentary from Two Ruby Core Team Members — Koichi Sasada (ko1) and Yusuke Endoh (mame) are employed full time by Cookpad Inc. to work on CRuby/MRI and a post they did in Japanese about all the new goodies in Ruby 2.7 has now been translated to English. There is a lot to enjoy here.. prepare a few cups of coffee.

The Ruby Reference (Now Updated for Ruby 2.7) — An attempt to bring together and extend core Ruby documentation for Ruby 2.7 in one place. This is a pretty neat resource to have to hand.

Ruby 2.7.0's Rails Ruby Bench Speed Unchanged from 2.6 — If you were hoping for huge performance gains for your Rails apps in 2.7 vs 2.6, “the 2.7.0 series is remarkable in how little the speed has changed.” I’ve seen improvements on purely Ruby benchmarks, though. But on the plus side, we can say we’re faster than Python 3! :-)

Ruby 2.7 Reverts The Deprecation of The 'Flip-Flop' Operator — Ruby’s flip-flop operator isn’t seen in much production code (with good reason!) and you might not have even heard of it before.. but it’s now staying as a permanent Ruby feature.

The Top Ruby Links of 2019 — In case you missed our special end-of-the-year reflection issue in December, we’ve also put together an article linking to the top ten most clicked items in Ruby Weekly last year :-)

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On Ruby 2.7 Pattern Matching After 10 Months of Elixir — I’ll wager you will be pleasantly surprised at the verdict on Ruby pattern matching from an Elixir developer.

More Fiber Benchmarking — More benchmarking fun from Noah. He has a guest benchmarker here that had me calling this article “The Falcon and the Benchmark Soldier.” See if you can figure out why.

How to Migrate Large Database Tables Without Headaches — “This is the story how we once migrated an in-house event store, that reached its limits, to Rails Event Store.”

Extracting a Tidy PORO From a Messy Active Record Model — If you were in the Rails world 10+ years ago, you’ll have heard about the (sometimes controversial) idea of ‘skinny controllers, fat models’, but Jason says the new best practice is ‘skinny everything’.

Are You Struggling to Upgrade to Rails 6? — If you need to upgrade your Rails Application or dependencies and need a skilled partner, reinteractive can help. Ask for a free quote.

Five Rails Performance Tips for Performance 'Noobs' — Some basic tips “that have worked well for me in my 9+ years of using Rails”.

An Introduction to Ruby's 'Fibers' — I don’t think this is a truly ‘deep dive’ but I found them useful when doing last year’s Advent of Code for basic cooperative concurrency.

rails-pg-extras: Rails PostgreSQL Database Performance Insights — Locks, index usage, buffer cache hit ratios, vacuum stats and more.

ActiveRecord Adapter for Amazon Aurora Serverless — Mysql2 adapter extensions to allow Rails to use AWS Aurora Serverless via the Aws::RDSDataService::Client interface which might be handy if you’re using Lamby. (Psst.. I’d love to link to some tutorials on this stuff.)

Forme: HTML Form Generation Library — A structured way to create HTML forms with no external dependencies and a simple API.

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Level Up Your Knowledge of Ruby's Exception System — Ruby's exception system is more powerful than many people realize. This book shows you how to get the most from it.