~rubyweekly | Issue 685 - All aboard the train to Rails 8 (14)

Here's What's Coming in Rails 8 — Rails 7.1 was released only a few months ago, but Rails 8 is expected later this year, packing in even more new features, like the inclusion of Solid Queue and Solid Cache as defaults, a PWA-focus that includes push notification support (it’s DHH’s #1 objective), a default Rubocop setup and, of course, much more.

Reconfiguring Your App Live with dRuby — dRuby (aka drb) provides a way for objects in one process to invoke methods on objects in other processes relatively seamlessly. It’s been around forever (at least, it was about in 2004 when I started!) but doesn’t get much attention despite offering some interesting opportunities, as shown here.

Unveiling the Big Leap in Ruby 3.3’s IRB — We casually included a small link to this in our Ruby 3.3 release roundup last week, but given most of us spend a lot of time in IRB, it’s absolutely worth being up to speed with the significant improvements made recently.

Migrating from Sidekiq to Solid Queue — The process is straightforward (assuming you're using Active Job) but there are gotchas around multiple queues, error handling, and retries.

Installing Ruby 3.3 with YJIT on macOS — YJIT was enabled for me using ruby-build through asdf (like so), but if it wasn’t for you, this may be helpful.

Is Lograge the Best Logging Library in 2024? — Lograge is an all-time great gem to manage Rails logging, but is it still the best? Here's my side-by-side comparison of 3 different Rails logging gems.

▶  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.)

Keep Your Ruby Code Maintainable with Draper — Draper adds an OO layer of presentation logic to Rails apps, by way of decorators. This post gives a reasonable intro, though the overall approach is not particularly popular and can introduce more complexity than it’s worth.

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.

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.

HexaPDF 0.35.0: PDF Creation and Manipulation Library — A popular and powerful approach for working with PDFs from Ruby. Now supports fallback fonts. (Note that it’s AGPL licensed, with a commercial option.)

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.

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.

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