When Google said RubyGems was bad news

#​653 — May 11, 2023

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A Few Words on the State of Ruby Type Annotations— If you spend much time on dev-oriented social media, static typing seems to be having quite the renaissance. Ruby, though, has remained fully dynamic, with the compromise being the addition of RBS, a way to describe type signatures for Ruby code, plus third party tools like Sorbet. Victor lays out the entire state of type annotations in Ruby and wants us to consider if there’s a sensible way forward.

Victor Shepelev 🇺🇦

🫣 DHH has been thinking about static typing too: he's definitely not a fan.

Shopify Layoffs Affect Ruby Teams and More— It’s sad when any layoffs occur and particularly so with Shopify having a strong reputation in the Ruby world through being a large Ruby shop, hiring many Ruby contributors, and funding programs like Ruby Shield. Ruby and Rails infrastructure (#) and YJIT teams have all been affected.

Shopify

Memetria: Secure, Scalable, Full-Featured Redis 7 Hosting— The latest Redis features, instrumented and scaled with the tools teams need as they grow.

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▶  Exit(ing) Through the YJIT— Somehow this talk escaped my attention till now, but if you want to really understand the work going on with YJIT, one particular recent enhancement to its development, and how the Rust rewrite is going, this is for you. At just 29-minutes, the value per minute is high.

Eileen M Uchitelle

QUICK BITS

• 📅 The Call for Papers for Rails World 2023 is now open. The actual event takes place in Amsterdam on October 5-6 and there's a waiting list for tickets when they eventually drop.

• 🎙 The Ruby on Rails Podcast has shared a special episode of ▶️ a community panel from RailsConf 2023. It's very mixed, upbeat and light hearted, but we do get to find out why tenderlove is so called.

• Crystal is a language that intrigues me and many Rubyists because it takes a lot of inspiration from Ruby, while being compiled and statically typed. In 'Crystal, the language for humans', Diego Crespo makes similar arguments for Crystal as others have made for Ruby over the years.

• Stack Overflow's annual developer survey is now live. Let's see if we can give Ruby a good showing.

📕 Tutorials, Articles, and Videos

Solving a Critical Bug in the Default Rails Caching Library— A look at a flaw involving Dalli and memcached that results in incorrect HTML being returned from a cache. (If you’re not using Dalli and memcached, this wouldn’t have affected you.)

Andrew Jones

Let's Make a Blog with Bridgetown— Jekyll is probably the best known Ruby static site generator but Bridgetown is the best, claims Seb Wilgosz. See the basics either in an 8-minute screencast or the accompanying article.

Hanami Mastery

Five Easily Missed Performance Fixes for Rails Apps— A look at a few configuration and infrastructure-related tweaks that can have big performance impacts.

Paweł Urbanek

Free eBook: Advanced Database Programming with Rails and Postgres— Learn about subqueries, materialized views, and custom data types in Postgres & Rails and follow along with our examples.

pganalyze sponsor

Organize Business Logic in Your Rails App— A high level breeze through a few different approaches to structure.

Julian Rubisch

Should I Use Action Filters?— Mateusz makes the argument for restricting your use of filters and being more explicit about what your methods need.

Mateusz Woźniczka

Four Essential Tools to Level Up Your Rails Security
Ernesto Tagwerker (FastRuby)

Deploying a Jekyll-Powered Blog to AWS Amplify
Gowsik Vivekanandan

Revisiting Ruby's throw and catch
Akshay Khot

🛠 Code & Tools

Safely: Rescue and Report Exceptions in Non-Critical Code— The idea here is that while you may want to know about failures and exceptions, they don’t necessarily need to result in bailing out entirely.

Andrew Kane

Litestack 0.20: Embedded Services for Ruby Webapps— An interesting project that tries to provide an extended but contained environment for Ruby webapps with an SQLite backed database, job processing system, cache, and even pub/sub mechanism. v0.20 adds LiteCable, an SQLite driver for ActionCable opening up even more real-time opportunities.

Mohammad A. Ali

Fixed Price Monthly Code Maintenance for Rails Apps— No time to do those small but critical updates? CodeCare will take care of necessary tweaks, bug fixes, upgrades and ongoing improvements for your app.

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IoMonitor 1.0: A Way to Detect Potential Memory Bloat— Push this into your Rails app and get more insight into when a lot of I/O (through either Active Record or Net::HTTP for now) is resulting in relatively little output.

Dmitry Tsepelev

An AI-Powered Assistant Right in Your Rails Console— Would you appreciate an AI powered assistant helping you out right inside rails console? You need an OpenAI API key, but this does the rest.

Igor Kasyanchuk

Sending Tweets from Ruby using Twitter v2 OAuth2— I’m very behind the times with Twitter’s API drama, but Jason sent this in and promised it would be useful to someone.

Jason Kotchoff

• Solidus 4.0
  ↳ Rails-based e-commerce platform.

• ActiveHash 3.2
  ↳ Read-only ActiveRecord-esque hashes.

• Maxitest 5.0
  ↳ Minitest enhanced with many more features.

• RuboCop::GraphQL 1.2
  ↳ For enforcing graphql-ruby best practices.

• test-queue 0.8
  ↳ Parallel test runner for CI environments.

• FakeRedis 0.9.2
  ↳ In-memory fake Redis for testing/experimenting.

• Twilio-Ruby 6.0– Twilio API client library.

• debug 1.8.0