An experimental wrapper around Ruby's TracePoint

#436 — February 7, 2019

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Introducing dry-schema: A Data Coercion and Validation Library— A new library from Dry.rb focused on data validation. It was built to improve some of the issues in dry-validation.

Piotr Solnica

A Complete Program— An interesting exploration of a thought where, in this case, “complete” means “done enough for me to feel good about abandoning” it. In other words, how do you feel good about stopping work on a program?

Richard Mavis

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Make a Valuable Open Source Contribution with CircleCI Orbs— CircleCI Orbs (packages of configuration) are a growing trend in open source. In this post, learn how to write your own orbs that thousands of developers can plug into their CI workflows.

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TraceSpy: An Experimental Wrapper Around TracePoint— Very much an experiment/work in progress, but this is an interesting attempt at exposing a more fluent API around TracePoint, a Ruby 2.0 feature for tracing code execution.

Brandon Weaver

Better Support for C Extensions in TruffleRuby— TruffleRuby is a promising, alternative GraalVM-based Ruby implementation being worked on at Oracle, and it has recently made some key steps in supporting C extensions.

Duncan MacGregor

strftimer: A Ruby strftime Format Generator— Give it a date and time format written long-hand and it’ll give you the Time#strftime format to use. For a Good Strftime and Rails DateTime Formats should also be useful in this area.

Edward Forshaw

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📘 Articles & Tutorials

Unraveling Classes, Instances and Metaclasses in Ruby— Sorting out how classes, instances, and metaclasses fit into how Ruby looks up a method.

Jeff Kreeftmeijer

▶  Taming Monoliths Without Microservices— A talk from RubyConf Australia which is taking place.. right now!

Kelly Sutton

▶  The Case Of The Missing Method: A Ruby Mystery Story— An exploration of Ruby objects behind the scenes wrapped in a story of intrigue, also from RubyConf Australia.

Nadia Odunayo

How to Protect Individual Resources with Passwords— Rails comes with all the tools you need to protect individual resources (in this case, uploaded files) with a password.

Greg Navis

A Rubyist Takes a Stroll in Elixir-Land...with Surprising Results— Get outside your comfort zone and join us as we compare and contrast resolving modules in Elixir vs Ruby. Let’s get weird.

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Dream Code First— The Ruby community embraces TDD for the most part, but there are still arguments to the contrary. Here’s how to make the case against those arguments.

Tom Dalling

▶  An Interview with TruffleRuby's Chris Seaton— A 30-min chat with the leader of the TruffleRuby project, a high-perf alternative Ruby implementation being built at Oracle. A good way to dig into what it’s really all about.

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▶  What the RegEx?— A brief eight minute look at regular expressions. Ideal for beginners.

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How I Switched From Ruby to Python— We’re not recommending this course of action since, well, we don’t have a Python newsletter yet, but.. I won’t let that get in the way of a good story.

Benoit Larroque

▶  Ruby is the Best JavaScript— A “display of complete moral depravity” to make valid Ruby code that looks just like JavaScript(!) This is one you just watch for fun.

Kevin Kuchta

Avoiding Junk-Drawer Classes in Ruby— The best example of a “junk drawer” class is the User class in many Rails apps. Tons of methods and attributes for different contexts. Don’t do it.

Starr Horne

6 Postgres Tips for Rails Developers from the Show Floor at RailsConf

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Does Rails Handle a Large Number of Nested Routes Better Than Sinatra?

Josef Strzibny

🔧 Code & Tools

RubyMine 2019.1 EAP Updated— JetBrains’ popular (commercial) Ruby IDE adds support for TruffleRuby and can now show you a call hierarchy of methods.

Artem Sarkisov

Spree 3.7 Released: The Rails-Based Ecommerce System— 3.7 is the last 3.x release before 4.0 but includes an all new REST API based on JSON API and using Netflix’s fast_jsonapi serializer.

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Heaven's Door: A Capybara Test Scenario Recorder for Rails— A Rails engine that records browser operations and turns that into a Capybara test scenario.

Akira Matsuda

prettier-ruby: A 'Prettier' Plugin for Ruby Code— Prettier is a popular code formatter usually associated with JavaScript and CSS.

Kevin Deisz

Blazer: A Ruby-Powered Business Intelligence Tool— A system for putting together charts and dashboards based on business data. Supports a wide variety of data sources. Version 2 came out a few weeks ago.

Andrew Kane

activerecord-import: Bulk Data Insertion with ActiveRecord— It just reached version 1.0. Does some clever things like generate the minimal amount of SQL inserts by analyzing associations.

Zach Dennis