Is Rails on Windows finally a pleasant experience?

#461 — August 1, 2019

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Rails on Windows Is Not Just Possible.. It's Fabulous— Ruby and Rails development on Windows has been pretty frustrating for well over a decade. Microsoft’s strides to accommodate the Unix way of life via WSL2 and VS Code have changed that in a big way, says Scott Hanselman. Given how many developers have been experimenting switching from macOS to Windows 10, this is encouraging.

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ruby-prof Reaches Version 1.0— After 14 years of development (yes, really!), version 1.0 of the high speed Ruby profiling tool is out with features like faster profiling and new reports.

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Your Ruby CI/CD Pipeline Needs an Upgrade— The Superhuman engineering team reduced build time from 17 mins to 70 seconds. With Semaphore, you can go faster too. Model any CI/CD workflow for Ruby, Docker and iOS with autoscaling pipelines. Try it free with GitHub.

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Artichoke Ruby Playground: A New Ruby Interpreter— Artichoke Ruby is an mruby-inspired Ruby interpreter built in Rust (GitHub repo). They’ve released a cool in-browser playground for playing with it. Let’s keep making Ruby a bigger part of the Web!

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Rails 6.0.0 RC2 Released— After you read about all the new stuff in Rails 6 (which we seem to include in almost every issue lately), download RC2 and take it for a spin. The final release is due in a couple of weeks, barring any major bug discoveries.

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Digging Deeper into Ruby Templating: The Parser— The second in a three-part series (we linked to the first article in issue 457) on building a templating language and parser in Ruby.

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Rails 6 Adds Support for Database Optimizer Hints— No more raw SQL to help nudge the database’s query optimizer in the right direction. See some Postgres and MySQL examples here.

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Rails 5: Getting Started with Active Storage— A basic introduction, complete with code you can download.

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3 Defensive Programming Techniques for Rails

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▶  Using Ruby's Array() and Array.wrap— If you’re using conditionals to check if a value is an array.. consider this approach instead.

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How Do You Tell Which Areas of a Project's Test Suite Need Attention?

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Shoulda Matches: RSpec and Minitest-Compatible One-Liner Tests for Rails Functionality— For testing things like validations, column presence, associations, parameter filtering, callbacks, flash and session usage..

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RubyMine 2019.2 Released: A Much Faster Debugger and More— The latest update of a popular (but commercial) Ruby IDE.

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