Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 110

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 110 highlights

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🚀 Launches

• Donn Felker launched Ruby Static Pro - a Ruby static generator template based on Middleman
• Tare Robrock (re)launched Translated - auto-magical translations for Rails models
• Rails Designer (pre)launched a new book - "Javascript for Rails Developer"

📅 Events

• Alex Rudall announced a workshop by Obie Fernandez about "Ruby AI Show n Tell"
• Honeybadger and Wafris are organizing an online workshop about "Errors n Incidents"
• Thoughtbot announced the Open Summit
• Lukasz Reske announced a workshop about "10 Arkency Lessons from Rails apps for 2025"
• RubyConf announced there is still time to book a room for the Ruby Conf

👉 All about Code and Ruby

• Rails 8.0.0 first release candidate is out and Lex Friedman announced they are planning to try Rails soon. There is also a new Maintenance Policy announced for Rails
• There are so many code samples like Jason Nochlin sharing how to run Kamal 2 with its own private registry and not rely on Docker Hub, Nate Berkopec sharing common cache mistake in Rails views,  Mohit Sindhwani sharing how to extract base name of a file and add s suffix to it, Alex Rudall sharing a code sample about Ruby OpenAI using RAG, Chris Oliver shared about how Rails looks for \#{name.upcase}_DATABASE_URL constant, Ruby Cademy shared 5 essential Rails shorthands and there is a lot more code to get inspired and use inside the newsletter

Remember to read the Thinking about Code section and Around Code, where there are engaging discussions about Gitlab and Vitalliumm using VCR, Matt Swanson inviting people to roast his code, Daniel Hoelzgen asking about Sidekiq vs. GoodJob vs. SolidQueue, and a bunch more.

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

• Landon Gray launched an experimental gem called swarm-rb - An educational framework exploring ergonomic, lightweight multi-agent orchestration in Ruby
• RoR vs Wild announced a new gem rorvswild-theme-rdoc - RDoc theme for developers with sensitive eyes
• Ylluminate shared about the existence of traveling-ruby: Self-contained Portable Ruby ( 2.6.10 -> 3.3.x ) Binaries for Linux/MacOS/Windows
• And a bunch of updates for various gems: rails, rubocop, tailwindcss-rails, superform, Rubymine, raix, puny-monitor, faker-ruby, sidekiq-cron and more.
  As always, we have links to newsletters, videos, podcasts, and articles.

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