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Find Your Next Job Through Hired — Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers.

Lead Rails Developer (Remote) — A mission-driven nonprofit working to reimagine journalism seeks a full-time Rails and PostgresSQL developer to join our team.

OmniAuth Rails CSRF Protection 1.0 — Provides CSRF protection on OmniAuth request endpoints on Rails apps. The just released v1.0 requires OmniAuth 2.0 and up (featured above).

▶  Discussing Hanami 2.0 with Tim Riley — Tim Riley is a long-time Rubyist and is a core team member of the Hanami, dry-rb, and rom-rb open source projects. Hanami is an opinionated, MVC-leaning webapp framework – think a lighter weight, more modular alternative to Rails.

Spend Less Time Debugging and More Time Building — Scout uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code to give you performance insights in less than 4 minutes.

ActiveRecord Analyze: Add EXPLAIN ANALYZE to Active Record Query Objects — Why? To help you track down and fix slow SQL queries.

OmniAuth 2.0 Released — OmniAuth is an extremely popular Rack-based authentication system that hasn’t seen a major update in years but continues to be used in thousands of Ruby and Rails apps. No huge new features, but sensible tweaks and security improvements abound. Here’s a guide to upgrading to 2.0 as it does have a few breaking changes.

Google Cloud Functions Adds Ruby Support — Cloud Functions is Google’s function as a service (FaaS) platform and they’ve now added first class support for Ruby which provides a new alternative to using AWS Lambda, say. The free limits are quite generous too.

Quickly Troubleshoot Your Ruby Application with Datadog APM — Datadog’s Continuous Profiler allows you to find the most resource-consuming parts in your production code all the time, at any scale, with minimal overhead. Improve MTTR, enhance user experience and reduce cloud provider costs with Datadog APM.

Ruby 3 Pattern Matching Applied to Basic Games — If you’ve been waiting for a tutorial that clearly shows a solid pattern matching use case, you can put all of your chips here. There’s also a Tic-Tac-Toe follow-up if you’re keen to cross that game off your list.

Migrating a Ruby Library from TravisCI to CircleCI — We’ve seen people moving away from TravisCI in recent years and if you’re in the process of doing so or considering it, Richard’s story may resonate. He also goes into the practicalities of actually making the move too, of course :-)

How Well Rails Developers Actually Test Their Apps — The results of a State of Testing in Rails survey done by Arkency, a Rails consultancy. Only 142 respondents, but the results feel reasonable and there are some interesting charts on this Twitter thread.

Testing Child Processes in Ruby — Testing cross-process can leave you saying “What the fork?” Luckily, Ruby has core classes and methods to deal with this and it only adds a forkful of complexity.

How to Upgrade Rails Without a Test Suite — If all of your Rails apps have full test suites, well done, but sadly there are many that don’t. Upgrading Rails is still important, though, so here’s some thoughts on retrofitting some smoke tests.

How to Install Ruby 3.0 on macOS: A Complete Guide — Daniel uses the flexible asdf version manager, walking through all the steps needed to install prerequisites, etc. and finishing with deployment and troubleshooting tips.

Building, Testing and Deploying AWS Lambda Functions in Ruby — While Ruby was relatively late to the serverless party, AWS Lambda does, at least, have first class support for it now. This is a beginner level introductory piece on the main concepts to consider.

Magic Responsive Tables with Stimulus and IntersectionObserver — Creating responsive HTML data tables can be tricky and result in a poor experience, particularly on smaller screens. Stimulus and the IntersectionObserver API can make the user experience more pleasing.

How to Set up Rails 6 and Postgres on Windows using WSL — Not everyone is or wants to be on team MacBook, nor run Linux on the desktop, and while Windows has been the poor relation when it comes to working with Ruby, there are now ways to make it work pretty well.

The Most Common Types of Technical Debt in Rails — I kinda like the term ‘rehabilitating’ when it comes to taking over older Rails projects and bringing them up to speed.

Ruby on Jets 3.0: A Ruby Serverless Framework — We’ve linked to the Jets framework before, but now they have a fancy new version and website with docs and other learning resources. GitHub repo.

Hotwire: HTML Over The Wire (or.. What Turbolinks Did Next) — Dropped just before Christmas, Hotwire is the end result of a project DHH was calling “NEW MAGIC” on Twitter last year. If you remember the “build a blog in 15 minutes with Rails” video from 2005, the video here will warm your heart as it’s basically “build a live chat app with multi...

ICYMI:  Our Special Ruby 3.0 Release Issue — Just in case you missed it due to the holiday season, we did a special Ruby 3.0 release issue of Ruby Weekly last week rounding up both the release and a variety of blog posts and updates surrounding it and its new functionality.

The Rails Request Cycle Explained — Rack up some knowledge of how Rails handles requests, where middleware comes in, and how Rails and Rack play nice.

The Future of Traveling Ruby — You might know Hongli for his work on Passenger or Fullstaq Ruby, but he also worked on Traveling Ruby, a tool for packaging Ruby apps into self contained packages for Windows, Linux, and macOS. In this post, Hongli talks about why the project has gone quiet and where it could go next.

Docker Compose: A Nice Way to Set Up a Dev Environment — Docker is often seen as a way to build containers to deploy in the cloud but I find it more useful to create local development environments. Julia has discovered the same and figured out how to best use Docker Compose to build more complex local dev environments for working on a Rails app.

Everything You Need to Know About Destructuring in Ruby 3 — How improved pattern matching and rightward assignment make it possible to “destructure” hashes and arrays in Ruby 3.

Caching All Native Ruby Gem Platforms — As more gems ship multiple releases for different architectures (such as the latest Nokogiri release - mentioned above) you need to take extra care if caching gems to be used by multiple developers.

How I Replaced Baremetrics and ChartMogul with Rake — If you A) want to cut costs and B) want more control of your statistics and C) have the time to write some scripts, you too can handle your own metrics which might lessen your anxiety.

Stop Worrying About Postgres Locks in Your Rails Migrations — Most common pitfalls that could happen when migrating a database, and how, at Doctolib, they mitigate them.

Heroku Case Study: Double Your App's Throughput for Free With Jemalloc — jemalloc made news in the last couple of years with its ability to significantly reduce memory usage, which can get you more workers on Heroku.

▶  Talking Haml with Hampton Catlin — Famous in the Ruby space as the creator of both Sass and Haml, it’s neat to hear from an old hand like Hampton. If you (still?) love Haml, this episode is for you.

ActiveRecordExtended 2.0: Add Extended Postgres Functionality to Ruby and Rails Apps — A continuation of work done on the previously popular postgres_ext library. This adds support for things like ANY, ALL and some JSON and HSTORE operators into Active Record, a popular Ruby-based ORM famously used in Rails apps.

Using AWS Client Stubs for Easy and Reliable Integration Tests — The AWS Ruby SDK includes the ability to stub out responses, making your integration tests fast and less flaky.

Interested in Using Ruby/Rails in the Security Industry? — Red Canary is looking for Ruby/Rails engineers that are interested in making a difference by protecting the world from cyber attacks.

Senior Software Engineering Consultant [100% Remote] — Co-founded by Justin Searls, Test Double is an engineering consultancy on a mission to improve the way the world builds software. Work on challenging projects as part of a passionate, open, and honest team.

The Epic Ruby 3.0 Changelog — A deeper, code-driven look over the key syntax and feature changes in Ruby 3.0. This is the one resource to skim if you’re short of time because many of these things might catch you out when you upgrade. We were a huge fan of the Ruby 2.7 version too.

Benchmarking Ruby 2.4 to 3.0 with 3 Real World Libraries — Namely: HexaPDF (PDF generator), Kramdown (a Markdown converter), and geom2d (2D geometry library).

Ruby 3.0 and The New FiberScheduler Interface — While the Ractor system has got most of the headlines so far, the work on Fiber will arguably have the biggest short term impact on Ruby’s concurrency story. Developing Fiber Scheduler for Ruby 3 goes into even more depth.

Writing a Ractor-Based Web Server: Part II — A follow up to an article we posted a few months ago where Kir created a scalable Web server in a reasonably small amount of Ruby thanks to ractors. Here he looks at the constraints of ractors and how he helped improve the ractor implementation too.

Using Ruby 3.0 to Solve Advent of Code Problems — Advent of Code is a fantastic annual set of challenges designed to let developers experiment with new techniques, approaches, and languages. Brandon used this year’s challenges as a way to explore Ruby 2.7 and 3.0 features and has the first five days wrapped up so far.

Ruby 3.0 JIT and Beyond — “Ruby 3.0 JIT is the fastest JIT ever for MRI. However, despite Ruby 3.0’s big improvement in reducing i-cache misses, it’s still not ready for optimizing Rails applications. Stay tuned for Ruby 3.1.”

Ruby 3.0.0 Now Available on Heroku — Good news if you’re a user of the popular PaaS platform, though it is a ‘preview’ version.

A List of Ruby 3 Features — A more quickly digested, high level version of the above, perhaps. I think beginners might prefer this.