IRB and Rails Console Enhancements in 2024 So Far— The last six months have brought a much-improved help system, a new extension API (so you can write your own IRB commands), a better show_source, easier debugging, and some Rails console improvements, such as showing your environment in the prompt. Be sure to have the irb gem in your Gemfile.
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Ruby Methods are 'Colorless'— The latest in a series on concurrency and asynchronous programming in Ruby tackles a concept raised by Bob Nystrom where color is used to distinguish synchronous and async functions and how they interact. Ruby skips around this idea, as JP demonstrates. A good post to go a little deeper on your thinking about Ruby's sync/async situation.
JP Camara
IN BRIEF:
🎧 Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson of both the Ruby and Rails core teams went on the Rails Changelog podcast to talk about Rails, compilers, and profiling with Emmanuel Hayford.
🎤 Got some podcasting ambitions of your own? Rails World and Buzzsprout are teaming up to both offer potential podcasters an interesting opportunity, as well as dedicated recording space for existing podcasters.
If you haven't taken the biennial Ruby on Rails Community Survey, now's the time – it's only open for another week or so.
Implementing Minesweeper in 100 Lines of Clean Ruby— A well-explained, interesting, and, perhaps, fun tutorial that uses some of the more recent language features, like the Data class and endless methods, resulting in the impressive LOC count. Now I wanna spin up Windows 3.1 again..
Radan Skorić
Puma-dev and Using It with Rails Apps— Puma is a popular choice in the Ruby/Rack web server space and Puma-dev takes it a step further in managing local apps in dev with local https and domains for separate apps.
An Introduction to Auth0 for Rails— Auth0 is a commercial, but popular, auth platform with a generous free tier and presents an alternative to Devise if you want things more ‘managed.’
Lamby 6.0: Rails + AWS Lambda Integration for Rack— Lamby is the culmination of all Ken’s knowledge on the topic of running Rails serverlessly on AWS’s stack. There’s some quick start documentation if you want to see how it comes together. v6 switches things over from Rack v2 to v3.
Ken Collins
Bashly 1.2: Bash CLI Script Generator— Declare the basic user-facing elements of a CLI tool (arguments, environment variables, command groups, default values, and more) and Bashly generates the Bash code to make it a reality. There are numerous examples in the GitHub repo.
Hanami 2.2.0 Beta 1 Released— This new beta of the popular Ruby web framework offers up a preview of a new database layer (based upon Ruby Object Mapper), as well a new approach (operations) for organizing business logic.
Tim Riley
Slack Ruby Client 2.4– Access Slack's Web, Real Time Messaging and Event APIs in Ruby or via a CLI. v2.4 now supports Ruby 3.3.
