Rails 7.0 Released: Fulfilling a Vision— Following on more than two years after the release of Rails 6.0, 7.0 is here and it’s a big one. The release notes tell the feature story in a dry way, but in this post DHH outlines the significant changes to areas like the JavaScript story, encrypted attributes, and autoloading, in a more exciting way. Plus, as an added bonus, Rails has a shiny new homepage boasting that Rails “scales from HELLO WORLD to IPO.”🎉 DHH and Rails Core Team |
📺 ▶️ Rails 7: The Demo – Watch DHH Build a Blog (Again)— It’s time to party like it’s early 2005 when DHH almost seemingly invented the screencast genre with a video showing how easy it was to spin up a simple app with Rails. Over 16 years later, we get a similar video for Rails 7. If you’re not already experienced with Rails 7 and if you learn best though visual experience, it’s well worth a watch. David Heinemeier Hansson |
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Extralite: A New Gem for Working with SQLite Databases— SQLite is easily my favorite database, even if it’s not well suited for everything, so it’s great to see a new client for Ruby that offers more performance than sqlite3-ruby, improved concurrency for multithreaded apps, and easier access to data returned from queries. There’s a Sequel adapter too. Sharon Rosner |
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▶ How to Use Kredis with Rails— Kredis is a library that offers a more Rubyish object oriented way to work with data stored in Ruby. This 14-minute screencast covers its use for creating a ‘recent searches’ feature in an app. Chris Oliver (GoRails) |
▶ Why Ruby2JS is a Game Changer— Ruby2JS is a Ruby to JavaScript transpiler, and Jared argues its main value is in being able to write as if JavaScript had Ruby’s rich syntax and standard library. Jared White podcast |
Minehunter: Terminal Mine Hunting Game— Tis the season to play some games, perhaps? A fun little Minesweeper-influenced game written in Ruby that you can play on the terminal. Could be fun to tweak too if you have some spare time. Piotr Murach |
Rails.new: New Mac to Rails Development in 11 Minutes?— The folks at Bullet Train decided to do something about the setup required to get started with Rails on macOS. They plan on growing the tool and adding a Windows version. (As with any bash | curl type thing, take a look at what’s going on behind the scenes first – it seems to ultimately run this rails.rb file.) Bullet Train |
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