Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 104 published

Launches, Discounts and Events

• Josef Strzibny (pre)launched a new book "Test Driving Rails: Take Minitest and Fixtures for a spin
• "Nate Berkopec announced the launch of his new retainer service Ruby on Rails Performance Service
• Rails Plan launched the Web Application Metadata Markup - a simple structure that describes the nature of a web application.
• There are at least 9 Ruby meetups happening this week all over the world
• Scotland Ruby User Group announced a new conference for Ruby - Haggis Ruby - happening on 24 October 2024

All about code

• Xavier Noria celebrates 15 years since building contributors.rubyonrails.org
• Evil Martians published a new video showing the atmosphere from the Ruby Meetup co-hosted with YCombinator in San Francisco.
• There are a lot of code samples in this edition: showing pattern matching, talking about Active Record, a history of Enums in Ruby on Rails, benchmarks about Array\#find and String compositions, and much much more.

Gems

• Rails 7.2.1 and 7.1.2 have been released.
• We included seven new gems that were released last week and updates about six more gemsKeep an eye on the proposal to rewrite Array\#bsearch in Ruby

Don't miss the Why Choose Ruby section to get inspiration of why people choose Ruby and Rails. Explore the Related section to get ideas about software development.

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Read the full newsletter at https://newsletter.shortruby.com/p/edition-104

PS: There are still few tickets available for the Ruby conference that I co-organise in September, happening in Bucharest, Romania. Check out https://friendlyrb.com -> we have a great lineup of speakers, a relaxed atmosphere and a group activity on Friday.