August 19th, 2024

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 103 is out

Launches, Discounts and Events

Luke announced the pre-launch of PetPals.app - Unleash friendships with PetPals
Ruby on Remote launched their section about Remote companies using Ruby showing 1247 companies that were hired in the last 3 years Ruby developers
Glauco launched Even Better Specs - guidelines for maintainable tests
Ganesh launched their ebook Essential Brand Guidelines Book for Startups
Ruby Conf is looking for conference volunteers
At least three meetups are happening this week in Turkiye, Switzerland, and Poland, and a conference is taking place in Japan.

All about code

You will see this week code samples about pattern matching, reverse comparison, exclusive lock in Rails, using Global ID, composing Active Record queries and using the `invert_where`, an example of using `ActiveSupport::TaggedLogging`
Then we discuss about using `IF NOT EXISTS` in PostgreSQL, a proposal for `private` method working on constants and what other directories people have under their `app/` Rails folder
Be sure to check the photos shared by Irina Nazarova from the YCombinator Ruby Meetup and her idea about knowing which companies are using Ruby.
Brad Gessler announced they work on a kind of "Hotwire for CLI apps"
There is also a lot of inspiration for why people Choose Ruby or Choose Rails

Gems

We have a lot of new gems and you should check at least the six gems open-sources by Zeke Gabrielse from Keygen along with updates from various popular gems.

For those who want to read more, we also included fresh content published last week in Ruby world: newsletters, podcasts, videos, and articles.