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November 18th, 2024

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 114 highlights

🚀 Launches

  • Josh Branchaud launched Ruby Operator* Lookup
  • Andrea Rocca launched blackfridaycapitalist.com - a pay to play directory of Black Friday deals
  • Mikkel Malmberg launched Nitro Kit - is a set of generic UI components to help you build your Ruby on Rails application
  • Tonton Cyber launched ShipOnRails AI - a specialized and up-to-date AI for Ruby on Rails developers with Rails 8, Kamal, Turbo, Stimulus, and more than 100 gems

📅 Events:

  • Jason Swett announced that tickets for SinCityRuby are now on sale:
  • Ruby Conf asked about the interest in the final RailsConf in 2025
  • Greg Molnar announced they are thinking of organizing a Ruby conference in Furnas, on Sao Miguel island of the Azores.
  • There are 15 meetups happening this week. Check RubyConferences.org for when and where they are happening.

👉 All about Code and Ruby
There a lot of code samples included, here are just some of them:

  • Use DRB to interact with Nick Schwaderer blog, and read about neste module calls reopening from Xavier Noria
  • Victor Shepelev shared how they implemented a not-a-pipe operator in Ruby
  • James shared a code sample about downloading file using multiple range requests, Jorge Manrubia shared a code to replicate a bug on M4 when working in YJIT
  • Jeremy Smith shared the code for a bin script that opens the locally sent emails, RoRvsWild shared a script to stop waiting for Redis responses when pipelining
  • Emmanuel Hayford shared a code sample showing how the rate limiter works in Rails 8, Kuba Suder shared how to use Skyfall gem to listen to Bluesky firehouse

Remember to read ️ 📐Thinking about Code where you will find discussions about service objects, about TDD, about migrating from Next.js to Ruby on Rails and Inertia, about how to process webhooks and much more.
Inside 💡Around code section you will find a list of Starter Packs about Ruby and Ruby on Rails that you can find on Bluesky and there is a nice collection of why people are choosing Ruby and Ruby on Rails inside the ❤️ Why Choose Ruby and Rails` section

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

  • Marc Köhlbrugge announced a new WIP Rails repository showing how to work with omniauth and atproto
  • Peter Bhat Harkins published a new gem called quickquestion - cli utility for asking Claude a quick question
  • Igor Alexandrov announced Kamal Deploy · Actions · GitHub Marketplace
  • Eth3rnit3 published a new gem chromate - Chromate is a Ruby library to control Google Chrome with the Chrome DevTools Protocol

And you will find updates of their projects or libraries from Roda, 37Signals Writebook, Redmine, skyfall, raix and more gems.

As always, we have more links to newsletters, videos, podcasts, and articles.

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