Building GitHub with (the Latest) Ruby and Rails— GitHub is, arguably, the Rails monolith with two million lines of code and 1,000 engineers working on it daily. There’s little technical content here, but it’s interesting to learn GitHub upgrades Ruby and Rails almost every week. Ruby engineering maturity at its finest? "[This] allowed us to upgrade our monolith from Ruby 3.1 to Ruby 3.2 within a month of release." Adam Hess (GitHub) |
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Introducing Security Device Support for RubyGems’ CLI— Ruby’s package ecosystem doesn’t get attacked as much as npm, say, but it’s still possible to distribute malicious code via gems. The RubyGems project, then, has set out to make package distribution more secure and now you can use a registered security device as a multi-factor auth method with the RubyGems CLI. Jenny Shen (RubyGems) |
📅 Rails World is Coming— The Rails Foundation announces its first-ever conference, Rails World, happening in Amsterdam on October 5-6. They are only planning to sell 650 tickets, so you’ll need to be fast when they drop. DHH also professed his enthusiasm about the conference, working with Amanda, and the future of Rails. Amanda Perino |
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Humane Rails Forms Inputs— Brad’s fundamental point is that computers should work for us and be more forgiving of our inputs. To this end, he introduces Inputomatic, a gem that “defines a few casting behaviors” to make inputs friendlier. Brad Gessler |
Audit Logging Approaches— An exploration of some options to implement audit logs, including PaperTrail, Audited, AuditLog, AppSignal, as well as a custom implementation. Darren Broemmer |
How We Upgraded Our Entire Rails Monolith in One Month— This brief story focuses on the frontend bits of the migration, moving to @hotwired/turbo, including the biggest snafus they encountered and what was done in each case. If you’re moving to Rails 7, this is a good read. Jonathan Loos (Harled) |
Why I Stopped Using Sorbet in All My Ruby Projects— A walled article on Medium so if you can’t read it, the TLDR is it’s down to bloated code, struggles to get buy-in, and tooling issues, which have proven too much of a trade off for the author. Ashley Peacock |
As an aside, publishing a blog post as a member-only story on Medium is a great way to limit its reach. I'll occasionally include interesting pieces like the above, but I figured I should let you know. |
TIL: Avoid default_role as a Class Method Name— When updating a mature Rails project to use v6.1 defaults, an unexpected stack level too deep error was encountered. It turns out a name clash, around a default_role method, had occurred. Domhnall Murphy |
How to Decommission a Rails App— Did your organization decide to sunset a Rails app? The folks at Planet Argon have tackled such projects and have put together a basic way to approach the problem. Robby Russell |
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