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September 2nd, 2024

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 105 published

🚀 Launches

  • Web Crunch launched the Hello Hotwire course - free with premium build-along modules
  • Brad Gessler launched Terminalwire - Hotwire, but for command-line apps
  • Alex Rudall launched Awesome Ruby Places - a Github repo to gather all companies that are working with Ruby
  • Tatsu announced the release of English tranlation for the "mruby handbook - Programming mruby by Example"

👉 All about Code and Ruby: 

  • DHH announced that Kamal 2 is close and the plan is to deploy in less than 20 seconds (it seems like HEY is already running on the alpha version) while Nate Hopkins shared a bunch of code samples about pattern matching in Ruby and Ruby Cademy shared also a series of code samples showing various Ruby and Rails examples. 
  • Ashok Gautham Jadatharan published a code sample showing how you can create a scripting file with both bash and Ruby
  • Victor Shepelev explained how the example with variable being initialized after NameError assignment
  • Josef Strzibny published some code samples about how to mock using Minitest
  • RoRVsWild shared a good thread about the performance of Array\#sort! vs SortedArray

And there are much more inspiring and good to know code samples. Don't forget to read the section "❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails" where people are sharing why they choosed Ruby or Ruby on Rails. 

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates 

  • Javi Ramirez launched a gem to calculate MRR, ARR, churn, LTV, ARPU for Rails apps using pay gem
  • Adrian Goh launched a gem that uses OpenAI to write commit mesages
  • Kevin Newton shared the PR for making Prism the default parser for Ruby

And like there are a bunch of gem updates that we included in the newsletter.


Like always we have a lot of newsletters, videos, podcasts and a good selection of articles to choose from.

Read the full newsletter for free at https://newsletter.shortruby.com/p/edition-105