~rubyweekly | Issue 705 - DHH on SQLite (14)

The Gemfile of Dreams Returns for 2024 — First published almost 18 months ago, this article distilling several developers’ experiences into a curated selection of useful libraries to consider when building modern Rails apps has had a major update for 2024.

Ruby 3.3.2 Released — It’s the latest version, but there aren’t any new features. It’s a bug-fix release to fix, admittedly, quite a lot of minor nits including being able to crash Ruby with a rather odd string-related incantation.

▶  David Heinemeier Hansson on SQLite — The creator of Rails caught up with Aaron Francis to discuss all things relating to the latest renaissance of SQLite and its use in production-facing Rails apps. It’s a 50-minute video, but with a complete written transcript.

Ruby 3.1.6 Released — 3.4.0 preview 1 might be out, but Ruby 3.1 is still getting occasional security maintenance releases. v3.1.6 fixes two bugs with building Ruby 3.1, plus some Fiddle breakage.

Destructuring the World (and any Object) in Ruby — deconstruct_keys and deconstruct (more on deconstruct here) are special methods you can use on your own classes and objects to define behavior/values when they're used in pattern matching.

⏰ Scheduling with Ice Cube — Not the rapper, but the iCalendar-inspired repeated event library. It’s handy if you have tasks you need to complete on a very human-like repeating basis (e.g. the weekday closest to the 1st).

🔓 Is Your Rails App Secure? Need to Upgrade on a Budget? — Talk is cheap. Experience is king. Bonsai by FastRuby.io is the monthly upgrade service for top-notch engineering teams 🚀

Better Know a Ruby Thing: Methods and Access Control — Noel has been writing a series on individual Ruby features he wants to look closer at. Today we get to look at methods and how public, protected and private affect their visibility.

Why, After Six Years, I’m Over GraphQL — It’s not a Ruby specific issue, but the author uses Ruby to demonstrate his qualms.

A Single File Rails Application ⁉️ — We’ve seen this before, but willing to bet there are plenty of people out there that haven’t. Both a neat trick and cute exercise.

PBT: Property-Based Testing for Ruby — Rather than writing individual tests for specific examples of functionality, property-based testing encourages defining general properties of a system to check if they always remain true. This example of such a test for a sorting method shows off the idea.

Positioning: Simple Positioning for Active Record Models — As maintainer of ActsAsList and Ranked Model, Brendon knows a few things about bringing order to AR objects ;-) Supporting multiple lists per table and offering relative positioning, Positioning builds upon his earlier efforts.

Ruby on Jets 6.0: A New Way to Take Rails Serverless — Ruby on Jets is a long standing commercial platform for deploying Ruby apps on AWS’s serverless Lambda platform, and now it supports Rails apps too. You do get two weeks to try it out though and see if serverless Rails is for you.