~rubyweekly | Issue 703 - A first glimpse of Ruby 3.4 (8)

Ruby 3.4 Preview 1 Released — I love it when the first preview of a new Ruby version drops. It makes it easier to get playing with the new features and reminds me of Christmas.. 😂 It’s a preview so don’t throw it into prod (unless you’re Shopify) but it’s a good one to test against with a key change to how string literals...

GitHub's dependabot-core is Now Open Source — Dependabot is a tool GitHub used to monitor the dependencies of projects hosted there (and create automated PRs to update them). It’s always interesting to see them open source a key part of their infrastructure – especially when it’s mostly written in Ruby!

Why You Should Nest Modules in Ruby — Justin demonstrates a couple of gotchas you can avoid by nesting modules, if at the price of a little added verbosity.

Developer’s Guide to Heroku Dynos — Which dynos should you use, and how many? (TLDR: Don’t use Perf-M!).

A RailsConf 2024 Recap — Kevin had a great time at RailsConf last week and he covers some of what he saw there. Separately, he’s put together four things to take away from RailsConf 2024.

The Git Gem 2.0: A git Wrapper for Use from Ruby — Takes the simple approach for wrapping calls to the usual git binary.

Strong Migrations: Catch Unsafe Migrations in Development — Detects potentially dangerous operations and prevents them running by default. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB.

Promptcraft: Try New System Prompts on Your AI Conversations — A Ruby-powered CLI tool for replaying a user/AI-agent conversation over and over but with a new system prompt each time so you can hone things until you get the end results you want.