~rubyweekly | Issue 692 - Sidekiq, under the hood (16)

Hypershield: Shield Sensitive Data in Postgres and MySQL — Looking to hide sensitive data to help comply with GDPR, say? Hypershield creates ‘shielded’ views that can hide sensitive tables and columns.

The Art of Forking: Unlocking Scalability in Ruby — Karafka (a Ruby processing framework for Apache Kafka) requires concurrency and parallelism, which can present challenges in Ruby. The explanations here of how Karafka uses Ruby’s constructs is informative and shows that you don’t necessarily need to use another language to address issues of concurrency.

How Does Sidekiq Work? — Sidekiq is the most heavily used background job system in the Ruby space, and this post digs into how it works, its architecture, and what’s going on under the hood. Curiously, the post was written by Dan Svetlov but Mike considered it so good he bought the rights to republish it!

Hanami 2.1: Views That Are a Sight to See — Hanami gets closer to being a full-stack competitor to Rails with a new view layer that is modular, testable, and powered by a new ERB engine. On the assets side, esbuild backs a config-free approach with a watcher and compiler for your dev work.

JRuby Prism: A New Parser for a New Era — In last week’s issue we mentioned JRuby's latest release and its use of the Prism parser. Here are the consequences: faster performance, reduced warmup, and a brighter JRuby future.

Running Rails on AWS Elastic Beanstalk — I hadn’t heard about Elastic Beanstalk in a Ruby context for years, but it was one of the first automated ways to spin up a webapp in the cloud directly from a repo. If you're on AWS, it still works well, and Josh goes through every step here.

▶  Discussing the Future of Ruby Central with Adarsh Pandit — Adarsh Pandit is the new executive director of the Ruby Central organization that plays a central role in organizing RubyConf and RailsConf and maintaining the RubyGems registry.

Linear Regression using Dataframes in Ruby — How to use a basic tool of data science in Ruby, largely through the use of Polars Ruby and its DataFrame type.

How to Debug Issues with Turbo Morphing — The excitement around page morphing with Turbo likely has many a Rails developer adding it to their apps.. which then break. Read this if you need help figuring out why or just want to prepare before you introduce the concept.

Weird Ruby: Nil Conversions — nil is an object (a singleton instance of NilClass) and comes with its own methods that allow for conversions to other types.

MiniGL: A Minimal Game Library on Top of Gosu — We’ve linked to this a few times over the years, but it continues to improve. Super Bombinhas is the best known game built with it, but this new Tic Tac Toe-inspired platformer is worth a look too.

tf-idf-similarity: Calculate The Similarity Between Texts — Calculates the similarity between texts using a bag-of-words Vector Space Model with Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (tf*idf) weights.

CodeCare Plus: Ruby on Rails Maintenance Service — Are bug fixes draining your development time? Streamline your Ruby on Rails application the easy way with CodeCare Plus.

Listen 3.9: 'Listens' to File Modifications and Notifies You — OS-optimized on each of macOS, Linux, BSD, and Windows, and can detect file modification, creation or deletion in one or more directories.

☀️ Astronoby v0.1: Work with Astronomical Data and Events — It’s very early days for this library, but it can, at least, calculate the Sun’s location in the sky based upon a particular observation point and time. Seems like a project worth getting involved with if you’re in this.. space? GitHub repo.

Self-Service APM When You Want It. Superior Support When You Need It — Need Ruby app performance answers fast? Get setup with Scout APM in 4 min and avoid the runaround of large support teams