'Beginless' ranges, using React.js with Rails, and building a chat app

#445 — April 11, 2019

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Ruby Weekly

Let's Build a Chat App from Scratch using Rails and WebSockets— Our Step-by-Step Tutorial of the Week™! A thorough look at using ActionCable to create a nice looking real-time chat app.

Lazarus Lazaridis

React-Rails 2.5: Easily Integrate React.js into Rails Apps— Are you a React developer who likes a bit of Rails on the backend? React-Rails is for you and makes it easy to integrate React with the Rails asset pipeline, views, and controllers. Docs here.

React Community

eBook: How to Get a 3x Performance Improvement on Your Postgres Database— The pganalyze team shares their best practices, learned over the last few years by helping companies like Atlassian optimize their Postgres databases.

pganalyze sponsor

Rails 6 Requires Ruby 2.5 or Newer— Also, Rails 6 will not support PostgreSQL versions older than 9.3 (11.x is the latest version but 9.x versions are still very common in production).

Vishal Telangre

'Beginless' Ranges Experimentally Added to Ruby 2.7— e.g...100— `“It might not be as useful as an endless range, but would be good for DSL purpose.” What happens if we use it with an endless range? 😂

Ruby Core

The 3rd Edition of 'The Well-Grounded Rubyist' Is Out— The Well Grounded Rubyist is a very popular Ruby book and it’s great to see a new edition out (available on Amazon.com). There’s also a book signing and talk in New York City next Wednesday if you can make it.

David A. Black and Joseph Leo III

Google App Engine Now Supports Ruby 2.5 (in Alpha)— It’s buried way down in a post about something else entirely, but Google’s serverless app platform now has (very) initial support for Ruby 2.5.

Google Cloud Blog

💻 Jobs

Sr. Software Engineer - Rails— You get it done with Rails, have strong programming fundamentals, are adaptable, and ready to jump in anywhere. Leafly is looking for you.

Leafly

New Career for Ruby Engineers. All Levels (Edinburgh, Remote)— Popular, award-winning Ruby/Rails SaaS product. Flexible, inclusive, happy team. Great work/life balance and benefits. Join us.

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Find A Ruby Job Through Vettery— Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started.

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📘 Articles & Tutorials

▶  Faking Method Inputs with OpenStruct— A useful, quick tip that can be used to refactor a method without having to build all its dependencies.

Avdi Grimm and Kerri Miller

Object Marshalling in Ruby— A detailed look at how Ruby serializes/deserializes data, the methods involved, and how to customize the marshalling process.

Mehdi Farsi

Creating a Basic, Native Ruby Extension in C— It’s not entirely straightforward but this tutorial breaks down the key steps.

Vinicius Stock

A Rails Model Test 'Hello World'— A tutorial showing off the basic process for getting RSpec set up and using it to do a simple model test.

Jason Swett

Replace chromedriver-helper with webdrivers— webdrivers is now the way you’ll want to manage Selenium drivers when testing from a Rails app and improves support for non-Chrome browsers.

Aaron Sumner

🔧 Code & Tools

JRuby 9.2.7.0 Released— The JVM-oriented Ruby implementation gets a variety of bugfixes and stays in sync with CRuby 2.5.x standards.

JRuby Core Team

Automated Dependency Updates for On-Premises GitHub and GitLab— Run Depfu Enterprise behind your firewall and keep your app dependencies up-to-date effortlessly.

Depfu sponsor

InSpec: An Auditing and Testing Framework for Infrastructure— Write tests to check firewall rules, installed packages, etc, and run locally or remotely. Targets most production OS including Windows.

InSpec

Arbre: A Way to Build HTML Views in Ruby Code— Billing itself as an ‘object-oriented DOM tree in Ruby’, Arbre is extracted from the popular Active Admin Rails administration framework system.

Active Admin

lol_dba: Scan Your Application for Columns That Should Be Indexed— It can also generate the SQL/migrations to create the indexes.

Diego Plentz

critical-path-css-rails: Only Load CSS Required for the Initial Viewport in Rails

Mudbug Media

device_invitable: An Invitation (by Email) Strategy for Devise

Sergio Cambra

Get the Fastest Website Deployments. Ever.

Buddy sponsor

Asciidoctor: A Fast AsciiDoc Text Processor and Publishing Toolchain— Convert AsciiDoc content to HTML, PDF and other formats. The recent 2.0 release is a big step forward.

Asciidoctor

imap-backup: A Tool to Backup Gmail (or Other IMAP) Accounts to Disk— Written in Ruby, of course.

Joe Yates