Ruby 2.2 Support Ends

#405 — June 28, 2018

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Support of Ruby 2.2 Has Ended— If you’re still on Ruby 2.2, it’s time to upgrade, preferably to 2.5 but at least to 2.4 as Ruby 2.3’s support will end too in March 2019.

Anton Paisov

Fie: A Rails-Centric Frontend Framework Running over WebSockets— Fie is an interesting idea in reducing the amount of JavaScript you write by keeping client state on the server & managing it via WebSockets. Here’s a tutorial using Fie.

Eran Peer

eBook: Using AWS Lambda with Ruby and Python— Serverless functions are incredibly useful for configuring the execution of our workload processes. We only pay for the time and computing power that we use. Learn more in our eBook.

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Faster Apps, No Memory Thrash— Touches on aspects of Ruby memory management, from how memory is allocated to how you can speed things up. It’s a slidedeck, yes, but with good notes.

Noah Gibbs slidedeck

The Ongoing Quest for Ruby Pattern Matching— There’s been discussion around listening to suggestions on how to add pattern matching to Ruby. Victor offers up an approach as a conversation starter.

Victor Shepelev

Safely Migrating from Paperclip to Active Storage— A supplement to the already existing migration guide based on how one developer tested her changes along the way.

Zoe Madden-Wood

Ruby’s Powerful Method Arguments and How To Use Them Correctly— The number of options and combinations of method arguments in Ruby is somewhat staggering, even without things like pattern matching.

Jesus Castello

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📘 Articles & Tutorials

▶  Elegantly Generate Data in Bulk with Ruby Enumerators and Arrays— Watch Avdi Grimm and James Edward Gray II demonstrate the art of concise, expressive Ruby code in two classic RubyTapas videos.

Avdi Grimm

Rails and Conditional Validations in Models— Often validations are only useful in a specific context, so adding them to the base model pollutes the domain. Here’s a way to only validate when it’s needed.

Karol Galanciak

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Modernizing StackShare's Front End: The React + Rails Stack— The tools used by StackShare to add React using Webpacker to a Rails application.

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Managing Stripe Subscription Payments in Rails

Victor Hazbun

▶  Parallel and Thread-Safe Ruby at High-Speed with TruffleRuby

Benoit Daloze

How to Ignore PHP-Targeting Bots with Rack::Attack— If you keep seeing bots hitting your Rails app as if it were a hackable WordPress app, this tip will help.

Andy Croll

Docker for Rails Development

Victor Hazbun

Delegating Methods in Ruby with Forwardable

Ronney Bezerra

Disassembling Rails: How Fragment Caching Works— A look into the source code behind fragment caching in Rails.

Stan Lo

🔧 Code & Tools

RecentRuby: CLI Tool to Check For A Recent and Secure Ruby Version— Put this in your build server pipeline to make sure you aren’t deploying a vulnerable Ruby version.

Lucas Luitjes

dry-monads 1.0 Released— Monads for Ruby, but in an idiomatically Ruby way.

Nikita Shilnikov

Rutie: A Tie Between Ruby and Rust— Hey! You got Rust in my Ruby? Oh yeah? Well, you got Ruby in my Rust!

Daniel P. Clark

BreezyPDFLite: A Ruby Client for a Self Hosted HTML to PDF Converter— BreezyPDFLite is a microservice for converting HTML to PDFs using headless Google Chrome.

Daniel Westendorf

Rydux: A Ruby Implementation of Redux— An attempt at JavaScript-style state management.

Alex Dovzhanyn

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ActiveEmoji: Emoji Aliases for Core Ruby Methods— Not new but somehow I missed this when it first came out. Amusing but I hope to never see this in production :-)

Erik Berlin