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☢️ Tech Debt, Performance or Dev Process Problems in Your App? — Our Application Assessment service can help you figure out how to deal with them.

Campsite: A Large Rails + JavaScript SaaS App Goes 'Source Available' — Campsite is/was a webapp offering something akin to a Slack-style interface to forum-like posts for team communication. It’s a good example of a fully fledged, commercial Rails app with lots of moving parts and a surprising number of best practices, if you’d like to see how such apps are built. (Note: They say...

Yake 1.2: 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.

Zverok's Guide to Ruby 3.4's Language Changes — Each year, Victor blesses us with a mammoth roundup of changes that arose in the Ruby language in the latest major version. Ruby 3.4 wasn’t one of the largest leaps forward in this sense, but he still has lots of great examples here, making this a must read/skim.

YJIT 3.4: Even Faster and More Memory-Efficient — YJIT (Yet Another Ruby JIT) is an optimizing compiler built into CRuby since Ruby 3.1 and it got even faster in Ruby 3.4 (by 5-7%). Maxime, who started Shopify’s YJIT team, explains the improvements as well as new options and techniques you can use to get more out of it.

▶  How To Build Basic Desktop Applications in Ruby — The recently released recording of a workshop given at RubyConf 2024 by the creator of the Glimmer suite of Ruby DSL-driven desktop and Web app building frameworks. We’ll have more on Glimmer in a future issue, but this is a great way to get started.

Escaping Ruby's Gem:SafeMarshal Sandbox — Gem::SafeMarshal was introduced to RubyGems as a way to ‘safely’ load marshalled specs from gems. Of course, that means folks will set out to see if it really is safe.

Back Away from the Backlog 🛑 — Your product doesn’t need bloat. Simplifying drives bigger outcomes, happier teams, and real impact. Learn how to start now.

SyntaxFinder: Analyze Your Ruby Scripts with Prism — A new tool being worked on by Ruby core team member ko1 to find syntax patterns in Ruby code using the new Prism Ruby parser.

Gem Shop: A Vulnerable Rails 8 App for Security Education — An intentionally vulnerable Rails app with various security issues so you can see them, explore fixes, and learn about cybersecurity issues in a more hands-on manner rather than encountering them via a text message at 4am..

Rumale 1.0: A Machine Learning Library for Ruby — Offers a similar interface to Python’s Scikit-Learn for working with support vector machines, regression, perceptrons, decision trees, K-means, component analysis, and similar concepts and algorithms.

Active Record Adapter for AWS Aurora DSQL — The “very beginnings” of an Active Record connection adapter for Amazon’s new Aurora DSQL database (essentially a Postgres-compatible serverless, distributed database service).

Sanitize 7.0: Ruby HTML and CSS Sanitizer — A popular, long-standing library that, oddly, we’ve never linked to before despite using it a lot. Sanitize removes all HTML and/or CSS from a string you supply except for the things you want it to contain. v7.0 requires Ruby 3.1+ and improves its set of default ‘relaxed’ rules to fit modern standards.

Ruby 3.4's Modular Garbage Collection and MMTk — Ruby’s garbage collector has been the subject of numerous tweaks and improvements over the years, but in Ruby 3.4 you can replace it with an alternative implementation at runtime. It’s a cutting edge, experimental idea, but will allow implementers to improve things and try out new approaches faster.

💎 The Previous Ruby Weekly, If You Missed It — I wouldn’t normally feature a prior issue, but it was a ‘surprise’ one to focus on the Christmas Day Ruby 3.4 release, so it’s worth a read if you missed it. We also had some sad news about a much appreciated community member, Noah Gibbs.

Useful Things You Can Do with the Rails Console — It’s always a good sign when you see people linking to an article saying they’ve been using the Rails console for ten years or more and still learnt something from it! There’s a lot of great stuff here.

A Simple Trick to Understand Ruby’s Lazy Enumerator — This article employs some simple, effective, and interactive visuals to drive home the benefit of lazy enumeration in Ruby.

How Honeybadger Migrated from Sidekiq to Karafka — Honeybadger ran into some limitations with Sidekiq’s Redis backend, so decided to try Karafka’s Kafka-based approach. Here’s what they learnt.

Can Kamal Really Beat a PaaS? ⚔️ Read the Developer’s Guide — With Rails 8 hot off the presses, we explore just how far Kamal can take your app.. and exactly where it can’t! 😱

Dissecting Puma: Anatomy of a Ruby Web Server — You might need a few cups of coffee at the ready for this epic! Dan digs into the popular Puma server for serving up Rack apps over HTTP and covers a huge amount of ground about how it works.

Refrigerator: A Way to Freeze All Core Ruby Classes — Designed to be used in both production and testing to make sure no code is making unexpected changes to core classes or modules at runtime.

Ruby 3.4 Released — It wouldn’t be Christmas without a major Ruby release and this year delivers Ruby 3.4 complete with a variety of improvements and updates:

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

Cyperful: An Interactive System Testing UI for Capybara — One developer’s side project to offer a Cypress-like experience, but for Ruby developers. You can visualize assertions/commands as they happen, view all API requests, errors, and logs in the timeline, etc. No updates in months, but maybe this mention will encourage the developer to pick it up again..? 🤞