~rubyweekly | Issue 696 - Recurring tasks come to Solid Queue (12)

14 Tools and Gems Every Ruby Developer Would Love — I wouldn’t usually feature a list-driven article but this has been a quiet week and it's a good one! Joé rounds up his favorite tools and gems of the moment, covering areas from email and databases to performance monitoring and analytics. All solid recommendations.

Solid Queue 0.3: The Active Job Backend Gains Recurring Jobs — First introduced just three months ago, Solid Queue is already a great way to run background jobs on modern Rails apps and v0.3 gets even better by adding support for cron-style recurring tasks.

Need to Upgrade Rails with Zero Downtime? — Ready for Rails 7.2? Top-notch engineering teams (from startups to Fortune 500 companies) trust the FastRuby.io team in mission-critical upgrades. Leverage our 30,000+ dev/hs of experience: Get to Ruby 3.3 and Rails 7.1 with zero downtime 🔥

rails-new: Create a New Rails App Without Ruby Installed — A new official project under the Rails org. It works by using Docker to take care of making the right versions of Ruby and Rails available. An interesting idea in its initial stages. Built in Rust.

Do You Tune Out Ruby Deprecation Warnings? — In the middle of a project, it’s easy to overlook warnings, but you can tweak how they are reported.

Brute-Forcing a 2FA System with Ruby — This was to pass a made-up security exercise, not to actually break anything, but provides an example of how Ruby can appeal to cybersecurity professionals.

HotwireCombobox: A Turbo + Stimulus Autocompleting Combobox — Simple, sweet, and well explained on the homepage, complete with live demo. Designed for modern Rails 7 apps. GitHub demo.

RubyFann 2.0: Library for Interfacing with FANN (Fast Artificial Neural Network) — FANN is an open-source C library for implementing multilayer neural networks. RubyFann provides the bindings so you can build and train your own neural networks entirely from Ruby.

Noticed 2.2: Notifications for Rails Apps — Supports email, Discord, Action Cable, Twilio, Firebase, Slack, and custom delivery methods. There’s ▶️ a 20-minute screencast covering how to integrate it with your app.

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