Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 116

🚀 Launches

• There are still a lot of discounts available for Ruby developers. See them on https://newsletter.shortruby.com/p/deals-for-ruby-developers-2024 
• Stanislav Katkov launched hooks.poshtui.com - Lastest updates from Rubygems.org
• Marco Roth launched rubytriathlon.com - Ruby Triathlon: A Journey of Growth and Inspiration

📅 Events:

• Rails World, EuRuKo and Friendly.rb announced the dates for their 2025: 4-5 September Rails World in Amsterdam, 10-11 September Friendly.rb in Bucharest and 18-19 September EuRuKo in Viana do Castelo
• Two conferences announced their CFPs: Baltic Ruby CFP at PaperCall.io - Baltic Ruby and Tropical on Rails at PaperCall.io - Tropical on Rails 2025
• Check https://rubyconferences.org for the upcoming Ruby conferences and Check https://rubyconferences.org/meetups for the upcoming meetups this week

👉 All about Code and Ruby

There a lot of code samples included; here are just some of them:

• Jorge Manrubia shared they will announce a surprise for Hotwire before Christmas, Tobi Lutke shared the stats from Shopify during Black Friday
• Postmodern asked about array.fetch(index,0) versus array[index] || 0 and there was an interesting discussion about it
• RoRvsWild shared a code sample about avoiding returning from model’s method
• Nate Berkopec shared the latency numbers every Ruby on Rails dev should know
• Matt Swanson shared a code sample about using code design to guide developers to make the correct decisions
• JP Camara shared a thread about calculating the largest known prime number by using the latest PR about "Do not round a**b to infinity by mame · Pull Request \#12033" that will be part of Ruby 3.4
• Bozhidar Batsov shared a code sample about touching a file in Ruby by using File.open(path, ‘a’) {}
• Jeremy Smith shared about Stimulus pain points and proposed a solution
• Gregory Brown shared a a code sample about an inline template experiment
• Ruby Cademy shared a code sample about using ActiveSupport::BacktraceCleaner
  And there are many more code samples you can browse and have inspiration while coding this week.

Remember to read ️ 📐Thinking about Code where Remi Mercier asked about how to trigger a bunch of turbo streams right after the initial request and got a couple of replies, Noel Rappin started a discussion about treating application.rb and environments files immutable, Benjamín Silva H. asked about if the loops benchmark can be optimised and read the replies.

Inside 💡Around code section, Tropical.Rb asked absout recommendations for people just getting started with Rails and there are some nice replies there about it.

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

• Yaroslav Shmarov announced a new gem hotwire_native_rails - Hotwire Native generator for Rails applications
• Harry Lascelles announced a new gem dememoize - A rubygem to remove memoized values (instance variables) for easier testing
• Marcus Almeida announced a new gem curlify - The gem convert ruby requests(net/http) into curl command
• Samuel Williams announced a new project async-discord - combining async-ollama and async-discord
• Svyatoslav Kryukov announced a new demo repo skryukov/inertia_rails_svelte5_ssr
• Nemo published a new gem jekyll-sqlite - A Jekyll plugin to use SQLite databases as a data source
• Adrien Siami announced a new gem hyperactiveform: Simple form objects for Rails
• Onyx announced a new gem for Pinata library pinata-ruby
  There are also interesting updates from various gems and libraries.

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

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