I found this quote in this article about Twitter moving to Scala:
> But he also prefers Scala because it's, well, beautiful. "It's a
fuzzy thing. But we like writing beautiful code, code that you're proud
of, code that you can show to non-programmers and they get it."
They chose Scala because they wanted to write "beautiful code."
I
think I can say that Ruby influenced this decision in more ways than
one.
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Ruby On Rails announced that The Rails Foundation welcomes 1Password as Core member.
There are a lot of code samples included; here are just some of them:
🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates
You will also find updates on their projects or libraries from Rosa, who announced the 1.0 version of Mission Control Jobs, Avo, who announced version 3.15.0 with huge improvements, Bozhidar Batsov, who announced an update about Rubocop v1.69.1, Nate Hopkins, who announced an update about LocalBus v.0.3.0, and many more gem updates.
As always, we have more links to newsletters, videos, podcasts, and articles.
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Maybe this would be a great time to share more buildinpublic or experiment with how this works.
This morning, I added a footer to the booklet about testing for developers Writebook from 37 Signals, and I used the that are using https://shoutouts.page for this.
Here is how it looks like on the main website https://booklet.goodenoughtesting.com
I created a small snippet on shoutouts.page by Vincent Ritter
I chose this because, once included, any changes to the text or image will automatically update everywhere it's embedded
Here is how it looks like to create the shoutout:
I then embedded this to two places:
I could not make it work for the Hashnode where I have the longer form articles: allaboutcoding.ghinda.com. Not sure why and I did not had time to debug.
The entire process took me about 30 minutes at most, considering I already had the Open Graph image from a post I published about the #GoodEnoughTesting workshop some time ago.
Before using Shoutout, I manually added information about where to find me online at the end of each blog post. This process was time-consuming, and if I wanted to make changes, I had to edit multiple posts in various places.
If you're planning to start a blog or just publish some notes, may I suggest two projects launched by two very lovely Ruby developers?
Both are easy to start with, simple to set up, and offer just enough options to get you going without the need to configure many things.
I am using this one for the current notes blog, where I post shorter form article and quicker notes.
See an example of how it looks https://pagecord.com/pagecord
I am looking for a reason to use it :) even if I already have 2-3 blogs already
Pagecord is also open source at https://github.com/lylo/pagecord
Here is a short audio where I share why I think you should start a
blog or share more your knowledge:
https://podcast.shortruby.com/2417631/episodes/16192809-sharing-your-knowledge-as-a-path-to-mastery
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There a lot of code samples included; here are just some of them:
Remember to read ️ 📐Thinking about Code where Remi Mercier asked about how to trigger a bunch of turbo streams right after the initial request and got a couple of replies, Noel Rappin started a discussion about treating application.rb and environments files immutable, Benjamín Silva H. asked about if the loops benchmark can be optimised and read the replies.
Inside 💡Around code section, Tropical.Rb asked absout recommendations for people just getting started with Rails and there are some nice replies there about it.
🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates
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This is a weekly reminder that if you want better suggestions for Ruby and Rails projects using LLMs (Large Language Models), you should consider writing more articles (not generated by LLMs) about how you believe idiomatic Ruby and Rails code should be written or showing modern Ruby and Rails code.
Aim to produce content for beginners, intermediates, seniors, and experts. The more you publish online, the better!
Remember that current AIs are LLMs, so to receive improved suggestions for Ruby, you need to train them with more knowledge.
Additionally, there is a lot of outdated Ruby content that requires refreshing. One way to identify this content is to browse Stack Overflow for older questions and write articles on how you would solve those questions using Ruby 3.3+ and Rails 8.
Here are two queries you can use for reference:
Take a look at those questions from 2011. Please write an article providing a fresh answer for them.
If you are using:
- MacOS
- Neovim configured with Lua
-
a Ruby version manager (for example chruby)
- zsh
Then in case you cannot install for example RubyLSP because after installing a new version of Ruby it seems like Neovim does not recognize anymore the global Ruby version set and defaults to the system Ruby (which is ruby 2.6.x) you can fix this by adding the following to your Lua Neovim config:
vim.opt.shell = "zsh"
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There are a lot of code samples included;
here are just some of them:
Remember to read ️ 📐Thinking about Code where Russ Olsen asked about what's new in Ruby in the last 5 years and got a lot of replies, where Brandon Weaver shared about modularity failing because it is seen as a technical issue and other interesting discussions.
🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates
You will also find updates on their projects or libraries from a new Puma version 6.5.0, Bridgetown 2.0 Beta 3, Rodauth 2.37, a discussion on Ruby parser about how Rubocop will be affected by deprecating the current parser, the introduction of Fiber::Scheduler#blocking_operation_wait to Ruby and a lot more.
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What kind of image (compressions, AR, ...) do I need to upload to Bluesky to have them show high quality?
Here is a comparison (left: Twitter, right: Bluesky) of screenshots taken from MacOS / Safari, which I think has the best quality.
I was reading this article Hey, AnyCable speaking! Needing help with a Twilio-OpenAI connection? by Vladimir Dementyev over last weekend and noticed an example of RBS inline usage:
That made me curious about how the tool configuration is created to be used by the other pieces of sofware.
Thus I browsed the source code and found inside https://github.com/anycable/twilio-ai-demo/blob/demo/rbs-tools an exciting combination of parsing RBS Inline with Prism to read method definitions and generate functions for LLM:
Source: module RBSTools::MethodDecl - I like what Vladimir did here and the idea to parse the method signature to create LLM functions.
The following piece of code is inspired by something I wrote the other day. I cannot share the exact piece of code or the content, but I liked the syntax so I played a bit with it here.
You can use in [] to match if the array is empty. And you can use in
[*] to match when an array has elements.
You can combine in with if and have something like: in [*] if
<condition>
Please note the results of using in [] and in [*] with empty
Remember that [] in [] will return true and use case in with
checking about empty first:
Pattern matching can also be used in this way: to check if there are any elements with 0 or nil values inside the array:
🚀 Launches
📅 Events:
👉 All about Code and Ruby
There a lot of code samples included,
here are just some of them:
Remember to read ️ 📐Thinking about Code where you will find discussions
about service objects, about TDD, about migrating from Next.js to Ruby
on Rails and Inertia, about how to process webhooks and much more.
Inside 💡Around code section you will find a list of Starter Packs
about Ruby and Ruby on Rails that you can find on Bluesky and there is a
nice collection of why people are choosing Ruby and Ruby on Rails inside
the ❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails` section
🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates
And you will find updates of their projects or libraries from Roda, 37Signals Writebook, Redmine, skyfall, raix and more gems.
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When I work with VCR in Ruby on Rails, I like to see the structure of the body printed as formatted JSON
The current setup:
\#!/usr/bin/env bash
if [ $\# -ne 1 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 <json_file>"
exit 1
fi
input_file="$1"
\# Does the file exists?
if [ ! -f "$input_file" ]; then
echo "Error: File '$input_file' not found"
exit 1
fi
\# is jq installed ?
if ! command -v jq &> /dev/null; then
echo "Error: jq is not installed. Please install it first."
exit 1
fi
\# Process the JSON file
jq -r '.http_interactions[0].response.body.string' "$input_file" | jq '.'
I am so grateful for the ongoing effort to improve the Ruby documentation done by Stan Lo.
I think we should try to contribute too in any way we can and make the documentation welcoming for new people who might join our community and start learning.
For example, a while back, while reading some materials for the ShortRuby Newsletter, I encountered people who were confused about which one was the official Ruby documentation.
So I just tried to do a small PR about it:
I think there are a lot of opportunities to contribute. It does not matter if you are a beginner or expert. You can make the Ruby documentation better.
If you don't know how to contribute, I think you should read Stan Lo's article about his vision on Ruby documentation, where he also shares how other people can contribute: A RDoc Maintainer's View on Ruby's Documentation
On the same direction of improving documentation, there is also this project by Masafumi Okura that won one of the three 2024 Ruby Association Grants that has as objective to create a plugin system for RDoc:
A little bit of bikeshedding: In Ruby, even outside of guard clauses, I sometimes use modifiers to make the code easier to read out loud.
A mental rule that I use to choose when to use a full if versus a
modifier is taking into consideration if the condition has a side
effect:
In this case I would choose the explicit if because the post.save
has some important information when reading this code, while return
Success(post) if post.save focuses on what is returned when skimming
the code.
