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▶  Rails 8: The Demo — Whether you love or loathe Rails, DHH’s 2005 ▶️ ‘build a blog in 15 minutes’ screencast introduced many of us to Ruby and Rails’ potential. Here’s DHH’s take for the Rails 8 generation. The usual scaffolding is there, but 20 years later we get a serving of JavaScript, deployment, and authentication too. (30 minutes.)

|> An Attempt at Elixir-like Pipes in Ruby — Numerous attempts have been made to bring a pipeline operator to Ruby. A newly added operator in Python inspired Victor to take another shot at it using a little AST transformation. It probably still won’t make core, but this is the sort of Ruby experimentation we all love to see.

RubyGems Adds New Maintainer Role — Previously, you either ‘owned’ a gem and could publish new versions or you did not and could not. The new “maintainer” role lands in the middle, letting people publish new versions of a gem without necessarily owning it. A good way to improve security on larger projects with numerous maintainers.

Securing Ruby’s Future: How Ruby Central is Strengthening Security — Ruby Central runs RubyGems.org, so often sits between developers and nefarious entities looking to trick us. It takes a village of sponsors (thank you!) and Rubyists (thank you!), and they’ve been busy improving MFA and building a roadmap to more secure and verifiable gems.

WorkOS: Sell to Enterprises with a Few Lines of Code — The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, offering flexible, easy-to-use APIs to integrate SSO, SCIM, and FGA in minutes instead of months.

Sinatra 4.1: The Popular Ruby Webapp DSL — Now includes host authorization, rackup no longer depends on WEBrick though it's still supported (Puma is recommended instead), and fixes some Ruby 3.4 and Rack 3.1 compatibility issues. Full changelog.

Pry 0.15: The IRB Alternative / Runtime Developer Console — Despite the many improvements made to IRB in recent years, Pry remains a popular alternative. v0.15.0 adds support for Ruby 3.3 and Reline.

Automate Embedding Creation and Syncing in Postgres with pgai Vectorizer — 🚀 pgai Vectorizer automates embedding creation and syncing in Postgres with one SQL command—keeps embeddings updated, no tools needed.

Mittsu 0.5: A 3D Graphics Library for Ruby — A Three.js-inspired Ruby abstraction over OpenGL. Now with the ability to load STL models.

Nokolexbor: A Faster Drop-in Replacement for Nokogiri — A Lexbor-based HTML5 parser that claims to be “5.2x faster at parsing HTML and up to 997x faster at CSS selectors.”

TTY::Links 0.2: Hyperlinks in Your Terminal — Test to see if a terminal supports hyperlinks and outputs them correctly if so.

Help Needed: Shoryuken: Amazon SQS Thread Based Message Processor for Ruby — A popular library that's just gone into ‘maintenance mode’ and is actively seeking a new maintainer, so do reach out to them if you’re interested.

A New Chapter for RubyGems: How Ruby Central is Building a Sustainable Future — Ruby Central sits at the heart of the Ruby community, maintaining things like RubyGems and Bundler and running RubyConf. Here they tell the full story of RubyGems, its management, and how the new Ruby Central OSS Committee is pushing it forward.

Stringer: A Self-Hosted, 'Anti-Social' RSS Reader — A Rails app that sticks to the feed reading basics, boasting no social features or ‘fancy machine learning’ at all! It does look pretty nice though.

🚂 Rails 8.0 Released (No PaaS Required) — Rails 8 has been with us for so long now, the final release almost felt like an anti-climax last week, but it’s a fantastic milestone nonetheless. Kamal steps in to improve deployment, Solid Queue lets you drop Redis and running a separate background job framework (if you wish), Propshaft replaces Sprockets, SQLite steps up to being a...

How We Made a Ruby Method 200x Faster — If you like digging into performance issues and seeing strong end results, this is for you. rack-mini-profiler and flame graphs are used to pinpoint a problem and refactor around it.

Streaming Rack with Falcon — Rack 3 adds input and output streaming to the web server interface, and here, Samuel runs through all the variations with Ruby and Rack, including how to use it with Rails. Ruby continues to shine as a solid choice for real-time, interactive, performant webapps.

▶  DragonRuby Game Toolkit: Lessons Learned — DragonRuby is a fantastic Ruby-based game engine (though it’s not CRuby) that’s no mere toy but used in hundreds of games on multiple platforms. Its creator tells the full story here, including its design, how it differs from standard Ruby, and shows off some examples.

Transformation Is Hard, but These CIOs Shared Lessons Learned 🧠 — Tips from CIOs on change, community, iteration, challenges, leadership, collaboration, and human-centered innovation.

wxRuby3: A Cross Platform GUI Library — Based on the mature wxWidgets GUI toolkit which aims to provide a native look on Windows, macOS, and Linux/GTK. Note the licensing – wxRuby3 is MIT licensed, wxWidgets is LGPL.

Literal: Runtime Type-Checking for Ruby — Provides types, structured objects, properties, and enums. The built-in types include generic structures that enable some neat use cases (e.g. check that an array is all integers, and other constraints.) It integrates nicely with Rails too. Literally, check it out.

Point-and-Click Observability in Honeybadger — Gleaning insights from your logs has never been easier with Honeybadger’s new point-and-click query mode for BadgerQL. Click to learn more!

Redmine 6.0: Ruby's OG Project Management App — A blast from the past! Redmine is a very long-standing Ruby app (now in its third decade..) that you’re sure to have used at some point, if only on Ruby’s issue tracker. It now supports Ruby 3.3 and uses Rails 7.2.

Rails Form Builder: A Copy & Paste Library of Form Building Helpers — “Since there is so much value in having this form builder be a part of your code base, we didn’t want to hide the code away in a gem.” GitHub repo.