~rubyweekly | Bookmarks (67)

sqlite3-ruby 2.0: The Popular Ruby SQLite Driver — As implied by the version number, this is a major release and, notably, drops support for Ruby 2.7. Native gems are now shipped for 11 platforms, newly including an array of Musl-based Linux ones. It now runs SQLite 3.45.3 and there are numerous smaller improvements.

validates_email_format_of: Validate Email Addresses Against RFC 2822 and RFC 3696 — “This gem is the O.G. email validation gem for Rails.” It can now validate email addresses using internationalized domain names too.

Zammad 6.3: A Web-Based Open Source Customer Support System — A long standing, full scale Rails app (currently on Rails 7.0) that we first linked to seven years ago! If you need an app to handle an influx of emails for management by a team of agents, this is for you. Screenshots.

Gemfast: A Drop-in Replacement for Geminabox — A new self-hosted Rubygems server written in Go, so it can be compiled down a single file and easily deployed on multiple operating systems. You can mirror and cache gems from the main RubyGems registry, as well as serve up your own internal gems, of course.

Phlex 1.10.0: Build Object Oriented View in Ruby — A minor release by number, a pretty big release by features! Phlex lets you treat everything in a view as a distinct component and manage them as plain old Ruby objects. v1.10 unveils some exciting experimental features including selective rendering, component kits, and CSV view rendering – all explained in detail here.

CrystalRuby: Embed Crystal Code Directly in Ruby — Crystal is a Ruby inspired programming language that boasts a lot of great features and is well worth a try IMHO. One benefit is performance, and this gem lets you write Crystal code, inlined in Ruby, giving you a potential performance boost without a huge shift in syntax. New and YMMV!

React on Rails 14: Bringing React, Webpack, and Rails Together — A major release because Ruby 2.7 support is dropped, but otherwise broadly stays the same and still worth a look if you want to integrate more closely with React in a Rails app – here’s how it works.

Vernier: A Next Generation CRuby (3.2+) Profiler — A sampling profiler that can track multiple threads, GVL activity, GC pauses, idle time, and more. If you’ve been enjoying Tenderlove’s recent livestreams, you may have ▶️ seen it on there. Once you’ve captured a profile, you can view it in a few ways (including on the web), but here’s some example output.

📋 Clipboard: Cross-Platform Access to the Clipboard — A library of over 10 years’ vintage, but still maintained, supporting modern versions of Ruby (including JRuby), and clipboard access on Linux, macOS, Windows, WSL, and more.

ActiveRecordCursorPaginate: Cursor-Based Pagination for Active Record — Paginate through an AR relation using cursor pagination. It also supports ordering by any column on the relation.

PermanentRecords: Soft-Delete for Your ActiveRecord Records — A way to prevent Active Record objects being destroyed, as long as their model has a deleted_at column available. An alternative to ActsAsParanoid.

Solid Queue 0.3: The Active Job Backend Gains Recurring Jobs — First introduced just three months ago, Solid Queue is already a great way to run background jobs on modern Rails apps and v0.3 gets even better by adding support for cron-style recurring tasks.

rails-new: Create a New Rails App Without Ruby Installed — A new official project under the Rails org. It works by using Docker to take care of making the right versions of Ruby and Rails available. An interesting idea in its initial stages. Built in Rust.

RubyFann 2.0: Library for Interfacing with FANN (Fast Artificial Neural Network) — FANN is an open-source C library for implementing multilayer neural networks. RubyFann provides the bindings so you can build and train your own neural networks entirely from Ruby.

Noticed 2.2: Notifications for Rails Apps — Supports email, Discord, Action Cable, Twilio, Firebase, Slack, and custom delivery methods. There’s ▶️ a 20-minute screencast covering how to integrate it with your app.

'Chilled Strings': Working Toward Frozen Strings by Default? — A language proposal that would introduce “chilled strings” that masquerade as frozen strings but issue a FrozenError warning when first modified (while allowing the modification). The goal here is to get closer to freezing all strings by default without immediate breakage.

VideoInfo 4.2: Get Video Info from Dailymotion, Vimeo, Wistia, and YouTube URLs — Grabs metadata relevant to the videos, such as duration, date, thumbnail URLs, etc. Now recognizes YouTube ‘live’ and ‘shorts’ videos.

Grover: Transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs — Google Puppeteer and Chromium do the heavy lifting. (Worth a look for the mascot alone.. 😆)

ActiveRecord-Import 1.6: Bulk Data Insertion with ActiveRecord — Does some clever things like generate the minimal amount of SQL inserts by analyzing associations.

Config 5.4: Add Multi-Environment Settings to Ruby Projects — Using simple YAML config files, this provides a mechanism for adding a settings/configuration features to Ruby apps of all types (not just Rails!)

Faiss-Ruby: Efficient Similarity Search and Clustering — Faiss provides a way to efficiently search and cluster dense vectors.

TruffleRuby 24.0: Oracle's High Performance Ruby Implementation — Created by the late Chris Seaton, TruffleRuby is a Ruby implementation leaning on GraalVM and the broader Truffle framework, used for implementing a variety of dynamic languages, including Ruby. v24.0 adopts the Prism parser and boasts full Ruby 3.2 and 3.3 syntax support, including pattern matching.

IRB 1.12.0 Released — One advantage to various parts of Ruby being turned into separate gems is you can upgrade them without upgrading Ruby itself, and IRB is certainly worth upgrading frequently. v1.12 introduces enhancements to the help command and IRB can now load .irbrc from multiple locations, such as from ~/.irbrc as well as project specific .irbrcs.