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A history of compiling Ruby
#586 — January 13, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyHow a Routine Gem Update Ended Up Creating $73k of Accidental Subscriptions— The creators of a SaaS product noticed odd behavior after a seemingly...
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WebAssembly support coming to CRuby
#587 — January 20, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyProposal to Merge WASI-Based WebAssembly Support into Ruby— There have been experiments before, but having WebAssembly as an officially supported...
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Entropy
#588 — January 27, 2022Read on the Web✍️ Last week's issue had so many interesting bits of news that it was a hard act to follow, so while this is a quieter week in the Ruby world, be sure to check...
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Client-side Ruby with WebAssembly
#589 — February 3, 2022Read on the WebRuby Weekly🔒 A Proposal for a New Ruby Gem Signing Mechanism— A proposal has been made for a new way for signing gems since the currently available approach is...
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Does Rails create its own 'dialect' of Ruby?
#590 — February 10, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRails and Its Ruby 'Dialect'— Originally sporting a title of “Rails is not written in Ruby”, this post makes the point that Rails' choices hugely...
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A new asset pipeline for Rails
#591 — February 17, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyIntroducing Propshaft: The Future of Asset Pipelining in Rails?— Propshaft is a new asset pipeline for Rails that boasts an approach that takes...
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Ruby 3.1.1 released
#592 — February 24, 2022Read on the Web😔 This is a difficult day for the world and our thoughts are for everyone affected by events taking place in Europe today. This issue is a little slower...
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Get more fiber(s) into your Ruby diet
#593 — March 3, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyThe In-Depth Guide to Active Record's load_async in Rails 7— Concurrency has been a hot topic in the Ruby and Rails space for a while now (especially now...
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Why to consider Roda for your next Ruby webapp
#594 — March 10, 2022Read on the Web🇺🇦 Ukraine needs our help– more on this below.Ruby WeeklyDHH and RailsConf Go Their Separate Ways (and Some Rails Core Members Step Back)— This is a complicated...
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Using Docker for Rails development
#595 — March 17, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby on Whales: Dockerizing Ruby and Rails Development— There a boatload (ha!) of articles on ‘dockerizing’ Rails apps, but this newly updated one is...
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A tool to compare versions of gems
🇺🇦 #596 — March 24, 2022Read on the WebRuby Weeklygem-compare 1.0: A RubyGems Plugin to Compare Gem Versions— Josef created this to help vet new versions of gems he was forging (to see accidental...
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RIP Ruby 2.6
🇺🇦 #597 — March 31, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyOn Sorbet, Stripe’s Type Checker for Ruby— Sorbet isn’t new (it was open sourced in 2019) but Stripe is keen to share its successes with it and tell...
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The first preview of Ruby 3.2
🇺🇦 #598 — April 7, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby 3.2.0 Preview 1 Released— Sure, 3.2 isn’t due till Christmas, but Christmas has come early in the shape of the first preview release. What’s new?...
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Ruby 3.1.2 and others released
🇺🇦 #599 — April 14, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyPerformance at GitHub: Deferring Stats with rack.after_reply— GitHub was originally founded in the Ruby world and based entirely around a Rails app....
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How Sidekiq works as a business
🇺🇦 #600 — April 21, 2022Read on the Web🎉 Somehow we've made it to issue 600 – thanks for your continuing support! Can we make it to 1000? Watch this space in April 2030.. 😁__Your editor, Peter...
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Recreating Notion in Rails 7
🇺🇦 #601 — April 28, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklySorbet + 100% Coverage Makes (Safe) Ruby Refactoring Possible— A quick explanation of how Crunchy Data seamlessly deployed a large (178 file) change...
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Scoped gems. Yea or nay?
🇺🇦 #602 — May 5, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyWhat Do You Think of 'Scoped Gems'?— Here’s an interesting proposal whose author wants more eyes on. The basic idea is that gems can be scoped to...
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How Ruby's YJIT went Rusty
🇺🇦 #603 — May 12, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyShopify's Experience Porting the YJIT Ruby Compiler to Rust— A project to port YJIT to Rust (rather than using C, as most of CRuby is written in) has...
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Shopify's big investments into Ruby's future
🇺🇦 #604 — May 19, 2022Read on the WebRuby WeeklyShopify Invests in Research for Ruby at Scale— This is exciting! If you’ve kept an eye on industry comings and goings in recent years, you may have...
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The Rails community speaks
🇺🇦 #605 — May 26, 2022Read on the WebRuby Weekly2022 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results— Over the past 13 years, Planet Argon has run several surveys like this. We encouraged you to take part, as...
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