~rubyweekly | Issue 686 - All aboard the Rails 1.0 train (13)

Ruby (3.3) on Rails (1.0) — Rails 1.0 was released about eighteen years ago (I know!) – just a day after Ruby 1.8.4. Things have changed a bit since then [citation needed], but surely a modern Ruby could still run Rails 1.0? Sort of..! (It’s funny to see bundler being used, though, as it didn’t even exist at the time, and even RubyGems itself...

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📕  Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition) Now in Print — Affectionately known as the Pickaxe due to its cover image, Programming Ruby is a book that, in its early editions, certainly helped launch the career of many a Rubyist. It’s back, focused on Ruby 3.3, and has a new lead author, Noel Rappin.

The Answer is in Your Heap: Debugging a Big Memory Increase — The tale of debugging a memory increase seen when an app was upgraded from Rails 7.0 to 7.1. Derailed Benchmarks and a heap analyzer called Sheap were used, with the work resulting in a patch included in Rails 7.1.3.

Ruby 3.2.3 Released — Yay, a new Ruby release! Okay, it’s no Ruby 3.3, but if you have 3.2 in production, this is for you, complete with bug fixes and the inclusion of the uri update that fixed this vulnerability.

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A 'Weird' Way to Filter Out Elements — Spoiler: It’s Enumerable#grep_v, which has an interesting property that makes it worth considering in some cases.

How to Find Method Definitions in IRB — Several examples of finding sources in IRB (and therefore Rails console) using ls, method, source_location, and show_source.

The First Commits to a Rails App — Lucian likes to get started by introducing best practices with automated quality and security checks, before getting into the meat of an app.

Horizontally Scaling a Rails Backend at Shopify with Vitess — Shopify has a lot of scalability problems that most of us don’t, but if you do need to shard and scale MySQL, Vitess offers a good approach.

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

Introducing pg_query for Postgres 16 — pg_query is a long standing library for turning SQL queries into parse trees, by way of Postgres's own SQL parser. This new version is based on the Postgres 16 parser, supports SQL/JSON, and now works on Windows too.

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.