Issue 522 - The one with all the Rails stuff (and Ruby 2.7.2) (22)

non_empty_array: An Ordered List Guaranteed to Have At Least One Element — No more if array.empty? checks required.

Recurring Subscriptions in One Day with Rails and Stripe — An example of adding recurring Stripe subscriptions into a Rails-powered app.

Why You Might Migrate from Heroku Postgres to AWS RDS — If you’re using Heroku, their Postgres offering is pretty fantastic, but here are some arguments for not using it which, if you’re in Europe or worried about GDPR, may even have regulatory consequences.

Multitenancy with Postgres Schemas: Key Concepts Explained — If you have an interest in this topic, their What Surprised Us with Postgres-Schema Multitenancy article may also be of use.

▶  Kuby and Rails Deployments with Cameron Dutro — Do we need a Active Deployment like we have Active Record and Active Storage? Cameron says yes and offers up Kuby, a convention-over-configuration deployment system for Rails apps (featured above).

i18n-coverage: See Coverage of I18n Keys Used During a Test Suite — Takes a SimpleCov-like approach to i18n config, using an app’s test suite to dynamically check that each key is truly in use, across all locales.

FasterS3Url: Optimized Generation of Public and Presigned AWS S3 GET URLs — The official Ruby AWS SDK is apparently slow at generating URLs to S3 objects (particularly pre-signed URLs) so.. this library was produced. Interestingly it has no dependencies (not even the AWS SDK).

How's the Performance of Ruby 3.0.0-Preview1? — When compared to 2.7? It’s not a dramatic difference, but try to focus on the 70%+ speed up between 2.1 and today, right? 😄

Ruby 2.7.2 Released — The latest release of the current version of Ruby is here and, ooh.. “This release contains intentional incompatibility.” But if you hate 2.7’s many deprecation warnings, you’ll be happy as they’ve been turned off by default. You can get them back with the -w or -W:deprecated options.

Rails Configuration in Kubernetes — Rails configuration usually lives in YAML files, while in Kubernetes configuration settings are split one per file (using ConfigMaps or Secrets). We wanted to load configuration settings from a single YAML file or multiple individual files seamlessly.

Kuby: A Tool to Deploy Rails Apps the Easy Way — We’ve seen a lot of deployment approaches for Ruby and Rails apps over the years (from old school mod_ruby and FastCGI to Capistrano and PaaS platforms) and.. here’s another built around Docker and Kubernetes and compatible with the main cloud providers.

Rails 6 and Stimulus.js: A Quick Launch — If you’ve yet to jump on the Stimulus.js (the decorate your HTML with JS functionality framework from Basecamp) train, this is a reasonable entry point.

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Getting Started with Tailwind CSS on Rails 6 — The Tailwind CSS framework has swept the front-end world by storm recently, even winning over the cynics, so you might want to give it a go with your Rails app if your existing styling approach has gotten a bit messy.

PostGIS vs. Geocoder in Rails — Leigh runs through a few spatial queries using both options when possible. If you’re looking to geocode coordinates, this can help you locate an answer.

How to Fix Postgres Performance Issues with PG Extras — An introduction to a tool you can use to spot Postgres related issues in Ruby (and Rails), Elixir and Node.js contexts.

Speeding Up Rails with Memoization — Memoization is the idea of saving/caching a method’s return value so it can be more rapidly returned in future (rather than recalculating it from scratch). This is really an introduction to memoization in Ruby but touches on some Rails use cases at the end.

Super Bombinhas: An In-Development Platform Game in Ruby — I was genuinely surprised how easy this was to get running on my macOS setup. gem install minigl, clone this repo, run game.rb and, yep, you have a Ruby powered platform game running. Genuinely a neat bit of work.

Rubyzip: A Library for Working with .zip Files — Create zip archives, open them up, add password protection..

Shrine: A File Attachment Toolkit for Ruby Applications — Integrates with several ORMs, can do image processing (for thumbnails, say), resumable uploads, and can work with both Rails and standard Rack apps.

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