~rubyweekly | Bookmarks (74)

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.

'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.

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.

Amazing Print 1.6: Pretty Print Your Ruby Objects with Style — A fork of AwesomePrint that continues to get updates. v1.6 introduces Ruby 3.3 support, has been confirmed to work with Rails 1.7, and offers hash key colorization and pager support when used in Pry.

Rails Multisite 6.0: Multi Tenancy for Rails Apps — Want each (customer/user) hostname used with an app to have its own database? Extracted from Discourse.

rrule 0.6: iCalendar RRULE Expansion for Ruby — RRULE is a spec for date ‘recurrence rules’ defined as part of the iCalendar spec. For example, you can have FREQ=DAILY;COUNT=3 resolve to dates over the next three days.

AnnotateRb 4.6: Add Annotations to Your Rails Models and Route Files — A way to add helpful comments summarizing the model schema or routes in your ActiveRecord models, fixture files, test, specs, and other places.

🇬🇧 The British Government's Lightweight Rails Components — The UK government’s official site is a true jewel in the crown, enabling citizens to manage benefits, tax their cars, and the like, and one of increasingly few things they've failed to screw up in recent years. It’s mostly built on Ruby and Rails.

Async 2.9: An Awesome Asynchronous Event-driven Reactor for Ruby — If you want an event loop for concurrency, async is for you – here’s a getting started guide. v2.9 introduces Scheduler#load and Async::Idler for load shedding and saturation.

tf-idf-similarity: Calculate The Similarity Between Texts — Calculates the similarity between texts using a bag-of-words Vector Space Model with Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (tf*idf) weights.

Hypershield: Shield Sensitive Data in Postgres and MySQL — Looking to hide sensitive data to help comply with GDPR, say? Hypershield creates ‘shielded’ views that can hide sensitive tables and columns.

Listen 3.9: 'Listens' to File Modifications and Notifies You — OS-optimized on each of macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows, and can detect file modification, creation or deletion in one or more directories.

MiniGL: A Minimal Game Library on Top of Gosu — We’ve linked to this a few times over the years, but it continues to improve. Super Bombinhas is the best known game built with it, but this new Tic Tac Toe-inspired platformer is worth a look too.

WebMock: Stub and Set Expectations on HTTP Requests for Testing — Supports lots of HTTP libraries like Net::HTTP, Excon, the http gem, and Curb::Easy.

SearchCop 1.3: Search Engine-Like Fulltext Query Support for Active Record — Adds support for an easy to use search interface on top of AR models. It’s smarter than you might imagine and can handle using operators to query against columns – it’s not just for text. Support for Postgres’s hstore and jsonb columns has also just been added.

Extralite 2.7: Ruby on SQLite, But Better — With great performance and a clean API, Extralite is becoming our SQLite library of choice for Ruby, and things have gotten even better with support for prepared queries and value transforms now making it in.

Forme 2.5: HTML Form Generation Library — A structured way to create HTML forms with no external dependencies and a simple API.

Dynamoid 3.10: A Ruby ORM for Amazon DynamoDB — Get an Active Record-esque ORM for Amazon’s flexible DynamoDB database service.

dotenv 3.0: A Gem to Load Environment Variables from .env — A long-time Ruby classic that has seen some fresh activity this week, and now requires Ruby 3.0+. Note that dotenv-rails is now considered superflous, since the Rails features have been rolled into dotenv proper. GitHub repo.