Issue 561 - GitHub brings cross-cluster associations to Rails 7 (18)

Gutentag: A Simple, Solid Tagging Extension for ActiveRecord — It seems to be the week for very old libraries getting updates. v2.6.0 adds support for querying for objects that match no tags.

Active Record Encryption — A deeper dive into the new AR encrypts functionality coming in Rails 7 where you’ll learn about deterministic vs non-deterministic encryption and the limitations of this new addition.

Gems, Plugins, Engines, and Mountable Engines: 4 Ways to Make a Gem — This is a quick guide whose most valuable info might be when to use each of the four options. I am not sure if I’ve ever seen this in one spot before.

NHL Time on Ice Visualizations for the 2020-2021 Season — A fun visualization built after using Ruby to scrape the NHL data and bring it into a Neo4j database to visualize.

Chartkick 4: Beautiful JavaScript Charts in One Line of Ruby — This has been around a long time and seems to get a major update each year. Support for the latest Ruby and Rails versions lands in 4.0. Here’s how to upgrade if you used previous versions. GitHub repo.

Adding Support for Cross-Cluster Associations to Rails 7 — Engineers at GitHub have been working on a new Rails feature coming in Rails 7.0: support for handling associations across database clusters. We also get to learn GitHub uses 30 databases (15 primaries and 15 replicas) with its Rails monolith.

A Comparison of Ruby Version Managers for macOS — You’ve likely heard of most of the managers here (RVM, rbenv, chruby, maybe asdf) but Frum (Rust-based) was new to us. Each manager is briefly explained here along with the author’s personal pick.

Refactoring Your Rails App with Service Objects — Even with the best intentions, Rails apps can become unwieldy over time with features added on here and there. Refactoring to using service objects can help break things up and improve maintainability going forward.

A Rubyist's Walk Along the C-side (Part 5): Variables — The latest outing in Peter Zhu’s series on writing Ruby extensions in C. This time he covers reading and writing to various types of variable and constant.

Tracking a Ruby Memory Leak in 2021 — Think you have a memory leak? Are you using the “better” allocator? Maybe it’s just bloat in one of your gem dependencies. Nope? Use some community tools to hunt it down and plug it.

Let's Read Eloquent Ruby: Chapter 1 — There’s so much knowledge and wisdom in books that I think the more readalongs like this the better.

Build a Static Site in Ruby with Bridgetown — Felipe creates a real static site with plugins for SEO, Turbo, Stimulus, and more. Also, I didn’t realize Bridgetown started as a branch from Jekyll.

Free eBook: Efficient Search in Rails with Postgres — Speed up a search query from seconds to milliseconds and learn about exact matches, trigrams, ILIKE, and full-text search.

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

The Easiest Way to Run Redis — Better monitoring, seamless scaling, durable and portable Redis hosting supporting all the latest features.

TensorFlow: Bringing the Machine Learning Platform to Ruby — Uses the C API of the popular ML toolkit under the hood.

DevOps Monitoring, for Developers. *Gasp* 😲 — Honeybadger simplifies your production stack by combining exception monitoring, uptime monitoring, & check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform. Surprise & delight your users by fixing errors before they even have a chance to complain.