Why Shopify's CLI dropped Ruby for Node

#​636 — January 12, 2023

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From Ruby to Node: Overhauling Shopify’s CLI— Aw, Shopify.. we thought you loved only us (and Rust)! In this post, a Shopify engineer explains why they took a different route with Shopify’s CLI app by rewriting it in Node. There are numerous reasons, though easier cross-platform packaging was a big motivation.

Pedro Piñera (Shopify)

Some More of What's New in Ruby 3.2— Our previous issue was essentially dedicated to Ruby 3.2, but if you want a quick, accessible ‘here’s a few interesting things in Ruby 3.2’ post, this is for you.

Nithin Bekal

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Ruby WebAssembly Todo App Example— A fun example with editable code in the browser that you can change and rebuild on the fly. Yes, Ruby is running entirely in the browser here (at the cost of an 8MB WASM payload).

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▶  Don't Sleep on Ruby and Rails— Justin Searls joined Jerod Santo and Adam Stacoviak to share his enthusiasm for Rails 7, Turbo and Stimulus (in particular) and how the modern Rails approach stands up so well in 2023.

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QUICK BITS

• Lars Greiving noted that AWS's Lambda serverless platform uses Ruby 2.7 as its official Ruby runtime, but Ruby 2.7 goes 'end of life' in just 2 months.. Can they get Lambda up to Ruby 3 by then?

• 'Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages' isn't about Ruby, but Ruby's symbols are picked out as a compelling feature.

• On Reddit's /r/ruby, there was a discussion about the merits of static typing in Ruby.Spoiler: there are rather few fans.. 😬

• There appear to be some file permission issues remaining on the popular mail gem and folks are keen to see a 2.8.0 release that will fix it.

• GitHub has a new option for code scanning called 'default setup' to automatically set up code scanning (of Ruby, JS and Python code) on repos.

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'My First Code Commit in Ruby'— The story behind Kevin’s small (but not insignificant) contribution to Ruby may inspire you to dig a bit deeper, share your own knowledge, and end up contributing in ways you didn’t expect.

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An Easily Overlooked Way to Break Eager Loading in Rails Apps— If you think using includes means you’re safe from N+1 queries, think again. There are many ways to introduce these errors into your app if you aren’t careful.

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Creating a Business Language for a Rails App— Building and processing a DSL to extend a Rails app's functionality.

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What If Writing Tests Were a Joyful Experience?— Jane Street’s developers use ‘expect tests’ to make writing tests easier. They’re using OCaml, but the idea is interesting and the author makes a comparison with RSpec and how a Ruby equivalent could look.

James Somers (Jane Street)

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Testing Rails Loggers with Minitest— Not something you might usually consider testing, admittedly.

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YouPlot: A Command Line Tool That Draw Plots on the Terminal— A sweet little Ruby-powered tool. The underlying plotting library is Unicode Plot if you want to pull off similar feats from your own code.

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• Phlex 1.1
  ↳ Framework for building object-oriented views in Ruby itself.

• Rubocop 1.43
  ↳ Popular code analyzer and formatter.

• Sidekiq 7.0.3
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• Listen 3.8
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• RubyGems 3.4.3

WORTH A LOOK:

• Rails Email Preview
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• RuCaptcha
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• MessageBus
  ↳ Robust messaging bus for Ruby and Rack.

• Refrigerator
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• ValidatesTimeliness
  ↳ Date and time validation plugin.