September 30th, 2024

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 107 published

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 107 is published. Here are some highlights:

🚀 Launches

Ruby Europe launched their community and presented the plans for the rest of 2024
Obie Fernandez launched the book "The Rails 8 Way"
Pragmatic Programmers are running a 40% discount on all Ruby and Rails eBooks
John Pigford launched Revise - an AI Code Correction Tool
RoRvsWild launched their one-on-one personalized performance advice

📢 News from Rails World

This edition contains an entire section dedicated to Rails World where I curated a couple of the many photos, ideas and talk summaries shared online last week from the conference.

👉 All about Code and Ruby:

Seth Horsley shared a thread about how to implement method overloading in Ruby using class methods
Samuel Wiliams shared how to use with_connection
Deepak Mahakale shared how to create aliases in Kamal 2
Julian Rubisch shared how they upgraded BetterStimulus.com to Kamal 2
Joel Drapper shared a couple of videos and code samples showing how to support async rendering in Rails using Phlex
In Around Code you will find the results of the Ruby on Rails community survey by Planet Argon where there are a lot of interesting updates.
And much more code samples and Ruby ideas.

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

Mike Delassio launched tailwindcss-ruby: A self-contained tailwindcss executable, wrapped up in a ruby gem
Chris Oliver launched ferrum_pdf: A PDF generator for Rails using Ferrum & headless Chrome
Stanislav Katkov published a couple of gems about making Jekyll work with nobuild Tailwind CSS: jekyll-tailwind-cli, jekyll-heroicons and a template jekyll-tailwind-cli-template
Joel Drapper published a new gem called Flecks - Render IO-bound content asynchronously and stream it into a wrap-around shell in a single HTTP response with Phlex
Ben Sheldon started working on Spectator Sport - Record and replay browser sessions in a self-hosted Rails Engine
Thomas Marshall published a new gem called minitest-verify - A minitest plugin to prevent false negative tests
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.