~rubyweekly | Bookmarks (72)

Letter Opener 1.9: Preview Mail in the Browser Instead of Sending — No longer worry about accidentally sending test emails to real addresses while in development.

SuperDiff 0.11: View Differences Between Data Structures in RSpec — When you’ve got something that’s expected and what actually came back, distinguishing the difference between them can be tricky. This makes it easier.

Savon: A 'Heavy Metal' SOAP Client — A long standing SOAP client library. The latest release requires Ruby 3.0+. There’s also Wasabi, an associated WSDL parsing library.

after_commit Everywhere: Use Active Record Transactional Callbacks Outside of Models — Not just outside of Active Record models but, well, anywhere in your app. Check the examples in the README to get the idea.

HTTP.rb / HTTP 'The Gem!' 5.2: The Fast Ruby HTTP Client — I’m a big fan of the http gem, both for its memorable name 😏 and because it’s flexible while having an easy to remember API (the wiki docs are a big help, too). v5.2 is the first release since 2022, though, so it’s good to see it getting an update.

rubywm: An Experimental X11 Window Manager in Pure Ruby — If you hang around /r/unixporn (yes, it’s safe for work!) much, you’ll see there’s a lot of experimentation when it comes to Linux window managers, so it’s neat to see a Ruby attempt.

Web Tsunami: Tailor-Made Load Testing for Webapps — Provides an interesting Ruby DSL for custom load testing scenarios.

telegram-bot-ruby 2.0: A Wrapper for Telegram's Bot API — Telegram is a popular messaging app that’s particularly friendly to bot developers. v2.0 of this wrapper adds Bot API 7.0 support.

Comma 4.8: Structured CSV Generation for Ruby Objects — Define an output format with a DSL then create CSV from arrays, Active Record objects, etc. Example code. v4.8 adds Ruby 3.2/3.3 and Rails 7.1 support.

nokogiri-diff: Get the Differences Between XML/HTML Docs — A handy extension for the Nokogiri HTML/XML parsing library that provides a diff method to go through the differences between two documents (example).

Cecil: An Experimental Templating Library for Code — Rather than outputting HTML as many templating engines might, Cecil is focused on generating source code and similar structured data from templates, such as OpenAPI definitions, Mermaid code, state machines, complex types, and test cases.

Yake 1.1: A DSL for Writing AWS Lambda Handlers Rake-Style — It includes the ability to write Sinatra style routes and feels like an idiomatically Ruby-ish way to work with AWS’s serverless platform.

dsu: A Ruby Tool to Manage Daily Standups — That’s Agile-style daily stand up meetings, not stand-up comedy.. ;-) Gene explains how he uses it in his job.

Commander 5.0: A One Stop Shop for Building Command Line Tools — Not many Ruby libraries have releases spanning three decades, but Commander is one. It brings together features from other libraries to let you more quickly build CLI apps with option parsing, docs, notifications, terminal interaction, etc.

Undercover 0.5: A Tool to Prevent Shipping Untested Code — Be warned about methods, classes and blocks that were changed without tests. Imagine something like RuboCop but for code coverage rather than code style. Now with Ruby 3.3 support.

SaferRailsConsole: Make rails console Less Dangerous — Provides some basic guard rails when using IRB in specified environments.

Logidze 1.3: Log Database Record Changes in Rails Apps Using Postgres — Allows you to create a DB-level log (using triggers) and offers an API to browse said log. The log is stored with the record itself in a JSONB column.

pg_query 5.1: Parse, Deparse and Normalize SQL Queries with Postgres' Own Parser — Uses the actual Postgres source to parse SQL queries and return the internal parse trees.

childprocess 5.0: Cross-Platform Way to Work with Child Processes — A long-standing library (the first version came out in 2010) for controlling external programs on any combination of CRuby/JRuby and OS.