Rails 7.2 released

#​715 — August 15, 2024

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Ruby Weekly

Rails 7.2: Better Production Defaults, Dev Containers, New Guides Design, and More— Rails 7.2 is out, and it’s a doozy. After year(s) of talk, testing, and use, YJIT is now enabled by default (for Ruby 3.3 and higher), and dev containers are here so that you can Dockerize your dev environment easily.

Rails

Railing Against Time: Tools and Techniques for 5x Faster Tests— A look at how Evil Martians recently helped a client optimize their CI pipeline and test and change their code faster, ultimately getting five times faster results. Stackprof and TestProf to the rescue.

Vitalii Yulieff

WorkOS: The Modern Identity Platform for B2B SaaS— WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, offering flexible and easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and RBAC in minutes instead of months. It's trusted by hundreds of high-growth startups such as Perplexity, Vercel, Drata, and Webflow.

WorkOS sponsor

Return an Enumerator When Your Collection Has Multiple Traversals— #each makes a lot of sense when a collection has one obvious way to be iterated over, but if there are various approaches all at play at once, the Enumerator abstraction can make things cleaner.

Joël Quenneville

IN BRIEF:

• RubyMine 2024.2, the latest version of JetBrains' commercial Ruby IDE, is now available.

• 🏆 Nominations are now open for the 2024 Rails Luminary Awards.

• 🔥 Matz and DHH will share the stage for the first time ever at Rails World next month for a fireside chat about Ruby, Rails and all things open source.

• 📅 Rocky Mountain Ruby 2024 is taking place this October in Boulder, Colorado.

An Introduction to Minitest Mocks— Test doubles likes mocks and stubs can help isolate code being tested from the rest of a system and Minitest has its own approach for these.

Josef Strzibny

Building a Modal Form with Rails, Turbo, and the dialog Element— How to practically apply Turbo Frames and Turbo Streams using a gradual, layered approach on top of standard Rails scaffolding, with only one line of JavaScript needed.

Matt Brictson

Why You Should Use Rails' Logger Block Syntax— How to use block syntax when using your logger with Rails to save object allocations and CPU time.

Will Jessop

Why You Should Participate in Friendly.rb This September— Following up on a successful 2023 outing, Friendly.rb is back in Bucharest, Romania next month.

Lucian Ghinda

▶  Discussing Euruko with Muhamed Isabegovic— EuRuKo is Europe’s longest running Ruby conference.

The Ruby on Rails Podcast podcast

📄 How to Use Dev Containers with Rails 7.2Chris Oliver and Collin Jilbert

📄 An Introduction to HTTP Caching in RailsJulian Rubisch

📄 45 VS Code Shortcuts for Boosting Your ProductivityShahed Nasser

📺 Processing Large Jobs on Top of Solid QueueDavid Kimura

📄 git push --force and How to Deal with ItAndrey Novikov

🛠 Code & Tools

childprocess 5.1: Cross-Platform Library for Managing Child Processes— A long standing library (the first version came out in 2010) for controlling external programs on any combination of CRuby/JRuby and OS.

Eric Kessler

temporary_tables: Create Temporary Tables for RSpec Tests— Create temporary tables and models in specs, rather than create and maintain a dummy Rails app or block-level constants.

Keygen LLC

🔓 Is Your Rails App Secure? Need to Upgrade on a Budget?— Talk is Cheap. Experience is King. Bonsai by FastRuby.io is a monthly upgrade service for top-notch engineering teams 🚀

Rails Upgrades on Autopilot sponsor

Rails 8 Introducing a Basic Authentication Generator— While the next major version of Rails is still a little way off, we can already see some of Rails’ future features in commits made to the edge version.

Jaimy Simon

• Rage 1.8– HTTP API framework compatible with Rails. Now with support for WebSockets.

• Mission Control Jobs 0.3– Dashboard and Active Job extensions to operate and troubleshoot background jobs.

• bundle_update_interactive 0.7– A stylish interactive mode for Bundler. See what gems can be updated, then pick and choose which ones to update.

• Whois 6.0– Smart pure Ruby WHOIS client and parser.

• Isolator 1.1– Detect non-atomic interactions within DB transactions.

• AttrJson 2.4– JSON-hash-backed ActiveRecord attributes.

• Stripe::Rails 2.6– A Rails engine for integrating Stripe.

• Gemsmith 22.2– CLI tool for smithing Ruby gems.