Issue 532 - A bumper roundup of 2020 (18)

JetBrains RubyMine 2020.3 Has Been Released — New features include Git staging support, interactive hints in the debugger, better tab management, improvements for the latest Ruby version, Rails, code coverage, navigation, and more, all in RubyMine 2020.3.

Rails Engineer - Top Consultancy (Fully Remote / India) — Highly-technical Rails/React/Node firm with a great work/life balance and a popular blog.

TruffleRuby: High Performance GraalVM-Powered Ruby — Built on GraalVM, TruffleRuby is an up and coming (well, I guess by now it’s just 'here') high performance Ruby implementation that passes all the RubyGems tests.

Ferrum: Headless Chrome Ruby API — If you've used Puppeteer or Playwright in Node.js, this is the same idea in Ruby. It works really well. I've used it on a few projects without complaint.

Lambda Containers with Rails; A Perfect Match! — This is the article where I saw Ken really make his pitch for running Rails apps serverlessly. He also announced that Lamby now works with Lambda’s new support for deploying functions in container images.

Wondering How You Should Optimize a Particular Postgres Query? — pganalyze uses auto_explain to automatically collect EXPLAIN plans. Identify slow sequential scans, sorts on disk & more.

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SuperDiff: View Differences Between Complex Data Structures in RSpec — When you’ve got something that’s expected and what actually came back, distinguishing the difference between them can be a pain. This attempts to make it easier... McFly???

▶  Taking VS Code From Editor to IDE — Visual Studio Code is a powerful editor by itself, but with the addition of a few extensions, you can turn it into a much more intelligent IDE. (13 minutes.)

When Should You Not Use Rails? — Thoughts on when Rails doesn’t necessarily shine compared to the alternatives. No one else has really created a list like this and it’s likely it’ll be cited going forward by many teams considering Rails. On the flip side, Rails’ conventions and the familiarity people have with it make it a compelling choice for many too.

How to Dockerize a Rails Application — “I had to hear Docker explained about 48,766 times before I finally grasped why it’s useful.” So if you need the 48,767th time, this tutorial may convince you? 😁

Noticed: Notifications for Rails Apps — Supports database, email, Action Cable, Twilio, Slack, and custom delivery methods. There’s a 12 minute screencast showing it off too.

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.

A Proposal for 'Endless' Method Definitions? — When a Ruby core team member suggests a major piece of new syntax, everyone listens. But on April 1st..? Nonetheless, Matz quite liked the idea, if not the syntax 😄

Effectively Using Materialized Views in Rails — Postgres’s views and materialized views provide easy alternative ways of looking at a database’s underlying data through the lens of a persistent query, and working with them in Rails is not too tricky.

Digging Into Ruby 2.7's Changes — Built up from the official news and release notes, this is a deeper look at what each of the new Ruby 2.7 features and changes really mean, complete with short code examples. If you want to read just one post that covers all of the changes in just enough depth, this is the one.

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