Issue 489 - Some solid updates for trusty Ruby libraries and tools (25)

Brakeman: A Security Vulnerability Scanner for Rails Apps — A long standing project we haven’t mentioned in a couple of years, but it continues to get updates and now supports Rails 6. It statically analyzes your Rails project’s code for security issues.

Oga: An XML/HTML Parser Written in Pure Ruby — Oga does not require libxml (or any dependencies, indeed) so it’s a bit easier to install than some other options. The migration story from Nokogiri is also pretty good.

Fake API: A Faster Way to Prototype an API in Your Rails App — Has a syntax similar to Rails routes, FactoryBot, and uses Faker to generate dummy data.

Kiba 3.0: Data Processing & ETL Framework for Ruby — Kiba has been around for a long time, offering a nice DSL and workflow for moving and transforming data. This version removes the CLI, pushing a new parse API.

How I MITM'd RubyGems.org... Kinda — When a developer mistyped rubygems as “rubgems”, he wondered what he could do if he registered the domain and picked up similarly misspelled requests made to it.

The Top Ruby HTTP Clients for 2020 — ‘http’ is my current favorite, but there are several compelling options nowadays.

date-formatter: Format Dates by Example — If wrangling with the various formatting options of strftime gets you vexed, date-formatter is for you, as you get to do things like this: 'January 02, 2006'.to_strftime .. you can also extend Date and Time to support a similar approach. (The docs don’t mention this, but use gem install date-formatter to install.)

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Linking a Webcam Directly to Rails' ActiveStorage — A developer was tasked with having webcam photos get uploaded to a Rails app directly rather than making a user pick a file. How was it done?

Ruby 2.7 Adds Enumerable#tally — Such a neat addition to Ruby 2.7 that I wanted to make a point of it again.

Decoupling Ruby: Delegation vs Dependency Injection — We all know (too tight) coupling is bad and that there are many ways to avoid it in Ruby. Here are two scenarios to help you have a conscious uncoupling.

▶  11 Ruby and Rails Podcasts Worth Your Time — Well, 7 actual podcasts and 4 screencast sites :-)

How to Build a WhatsApp Chatbot with Ruby, Sinatra and Twilio — I always saw Twilio as a service for sending SMS text messages, but it does a lot more nowadays. It’s a commercial service, though, so keep that in mind before progressing.

Migrating User Passwords From Django to Ruby — Migrating user data between a Python and Ruby app isn’t particularly common but when you need to do it, how? It turned out to not be too tricky.

Putting All Your Mailer Views in One Place — Andy doesn’t think having mailer views across different directories makes much sense, so shares a way to bring them into one place. I see his point, although he does call it a “pernickety organisational opinion.”

RuboCop 0.80: The Ruby Static Code Analyzer and Formatter — This release provoked some interesting discussion on Hacker News, if you’re into such things.

Troubleshoot Ruby App Errors and Latency with Datadog APM — Trace requests across service boundaries and optimize bottlenecks by drilling into individual traces end-to-end.

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Ferrum: A 'Fearless' Ruby Chrome/Chromium Driver — If you’ve used JavaScript’s Puppeteer for controlling Chrome from code, this is the same idea but in an idiomatically Ruby fashion. Looks good!

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