Does your gem have over 165 million downloads? Well..

🇺🇦 #​608 — June 16, 2022

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Ruby Weekly

Making Popular Ruby Packages More Secure— Mirroring similar moves by GitHub with the npm registry, RubyGems’ maintainers want to improve the security of the Ruby ecosystem by making maintainers of the most popular gems use multi-factor authentication on their RubyGems accounts to mitigate account takeovers. How popular? “Anybody who maintains a gem with more than 165 million downloads”.. 😮

Betty Li (RubyGems)

Why attr_accessor is Faster than Regular Methods— attr_accessor, attr_writer and attr_reader are just shorthand for defining getter and setter methods, right? Yes and no. Dmitry heads down to the bytecode level to see why attr_ produced methods are a little faster than rolling your own.

Dmitry Tsepelev

Fight Bugs with AppSignal in Multiplayer Mode— Fighting bugs on your own is hard. You need to get information from your app, understand the problem, and come up with possible solutions. With AppSignal, the whole team comes together.

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The Case for Pattern Matching Key Irreverence in Ruby— A thoughtful post that puts forth a keyword argument-type approach for pattern matching arguments stemming from a GitHub issue on Ruby’s csv library. Read it and give your opinion.

Brandon Weaver

Quick Bits:

• Did you know bundle show was deprecated but has become undeprecated again? You can use bundle show to list all the gems in your current bundle.

• Mike Perham shares a little of what's coming to Sidekiq in the near future.

• There are builds of TruffleRuby that work on Apple silicon now if you want to have a go.

• Some notes on Heroku's new Heroku-22 stack.

• RubyMine 2022.2 EAP4 is out.

• As is RubyGems 3.3.16.

📕 Articles & Tutorials

Code I Like: Domain-Driven Boldness at Basecamp— Jorge gives us some examples of how the folks at Basecamp employ domain-driven design (a.k.a. DDD) resulting in maintainable, readable code that might inspire you to do the same.

Jorge Manrubia (Hey.com)

Migrating from Webpacker to esbuild— If you feel the need to move away from Webpacker, this guide will show you the ins and outs of transitioning to esbuild smoothly, including working around some deficiencies (like hot module reloading).

Francois Buys (FastRuby.io)

How a Rubyist Made $50,000 Profit from a Side Project Slack Bot— The $50,000 number is less interesting than the story of the five years it took to build the project to get there, giving real insight into how actual side projects work.

Paweł Urbanek

Free eBook: Efficient Search in Rails with Postgres

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Building a Chat App with Hanami and Hotwire— Brings together the elegant Hanami with Hotwire’s ‘HTML over the wire’ approach for a particularly tight and tidy and idiomatically Rubyish experience.

Paweł Świątkowski

Cross Platform Machine Code— Aaron (aka Tenderlove) wanted to write a conditional-free (but pizazz-filled) set of tests for assemblers on different platforms, which he recounts here. If you’re into assembly, read on.

Aaron Patterson

Self-Destructing StimulusJS Controllers— A great approach when you need a little bit of client-side behavior without a lot of cleanup.

Matt Swanson

▶  How to Add Infinite Scrolling to a Rails App with Hotwire in Under 5 Minutes
Cezar Halmagean

Working with Hanami Router and TDD
Hanami Mastery

🛠 Code & Tools

Lockbox 1.0: Modern Encryption for Ruby and Rails— Got sensitive information you’d like to keep secure? This integrates with Active Record, Action Text, Mongoid, and more to help get it done in an ‘easy to use, hard to misuse’ way.

Andrew Kane

A Basic JSON Parser Written Using Pattern Matching— Not a library or anything, but a nice look at a tidy use of pattern matching.

Kevin Newton

Agile Localization Platform: Develop, Translate, Deploy - Reiterate— Translate your app & go global - 15 day free trial - Prices from €66/month - Free for open source projects & charities.

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Graphlient: A 'Friendlier' Ruby GraphQL Client?— Builds on top of graphql-client.

Ashkan Nasseri

Ruby LSP 0.1: An Implementation of the LSP Spec— This VS Code extension then hooks into this.

Shopify

Ancestry 4.2: Organize an Active Record Model into a Tree Structure
Stefan Kroes

Chartkick 4.2: Beautiful JS Charts in One Line of Ruby
Andrew Kane