~rubyweekly | Bookmarks (10)

The Future of Ruby in the Age of AI — Obie (long-time Rubyist and author of The Rails Way) is bullish on Ruby’s future alongside AI, and lays out a bold case for why he thinks Rubyists have a comfortable spot in what’s to come.

▶  Implementing One Time Payments with Pay and Stripe — Pay is a gem that implements a payments engine for Rails and you can quite quickly integrate it with Stripe to get one-time payments in your apps. (39 minutes.)

A Docs-First Approach to Rails API Development? — Writing documentation for APIs is rarely an exciting job and often gets left till last, but what if you wrote it first? This article looks at how this can work in practice, and introduces Skooma, a new Ruby library for validating API implementations against OpenAPI documents.

▶  Setting up Ruby and Rails on Windows and WSL — If you’re considering 'doing a DHH' and giving Windows a try for Ruby development, this quick look at setting up a fresh Windows 11 environment for Rails development could be very handy.

▶  🤡 How to Make Your Rails App 'Fart' — Clearly intended as an April Fools’ joke, but with a nonetheless practical angle that you could hopefully use for something more edifying than fart noises.. 😅

A Self-Hosted Observability Stack for Rails Apps? — An introduction to opentelemetry-rails-example, a repo that provides a demo of implementing OpenTelemetry in a Rails app.

▶  Exploring Campfire, 37signals' New 'Once' Rails App — Famous for building Rails-powered SaaS apps, 37signals is taking some steps into offering single payment, self hosted apps: the first one being a revival of their Campfire chat app. This video takes a quick, independent look at the app (including its code) or you can enjoy DHH’s own video about deploying it.

▶  How to Send Notifications in Rails with Noticed v2 — Noticed is a gem for sending various types of notification from Rails apps.

▶  Adding Turbo 8 into a Rails App — David Kimura explores the seamless updating of pages in real-time using new Turbo 8 functionality around broadcasting and morphing. (27 minutes.)