~rubyweekly | Issue 712 - Here's how IRB's getting better (13)

Hanami 2.2.0 Beta 1 Released — This new beta of the popular Ruby web framework offers up a preview of a new database layer (based upon Ruby Object Mapper), as well a new approach (operations) for organizing business logic.

IRB and Rails Console Enhancements in 2024 So Far — The last six months have brought a much-improved help system, a new extension API (so you can write your own IRB commands), a better show_source, easier debugging, and some Rails console improvements, such as showing your environment in the prompt. Be sure to have the irb gem in your Gemfile.

Ruby Methods are 'Colorless' — The latest in a series on concurrency and asynchronous programming in Ruby tackles a concept raised by Bob Nystrom where color is used to distinguish synchronous and async functions and how they interact. Ruby skips around this idea, as JP demonstrates. A good post to go a little deeper on your thinking about Ruby's sync/async situation.

Implementing Minesweeper in 100 Lines of Clean Ruby — A well-explained, interesting, and, perhaps, fun tutorial that uses some of the more recent language features, like the Data class and endless methods, resulting in the impressive LOC count. Now I wanna spin up Windows 3.1 again..

Puma-dev and Using It with Rails Apps — Puma is a popular choice in the Ruby/Rack web server space and Puma-dev takes it a step further in managing local apps in dev with local https and domains for separate apps.

Developer’s Guide to Autoscaling on Heroku — Still dorking around with your dyno slider? We’ll show you the what, why, and how for autoscaling.

Startups on Rails in 2024: My Keynote at RailsConf — Evil Martians’ Irina Nazarova reflects on her RailsConf 2024 talk, focusing on the continuing role of Rails in modern tech startups.

Accessing Request Headers in a Rails Controller — A look at how digging into the request headers helped to debug a failing spec.

An Introduction to Auth0 for Rails — Auth0 is a commercial, but popular, auth platform with a generous free tier and presents an alternative to Devise if you want things more ‘managed.’

Lamby 6.0: Rails + AWS Lambda Integration for Rack — Lamby is the culmination of all Ken’s knowledge on the topic of running Rails serverlessly on AWS’s stack. There’s some quick start documentation if you want to see how it comes together. v6 switches things over from Rack v2 to v3.

Bashly 1.2: Bash CLI Script Generator — Declare the basic user-facing elements of a CLI tool (arguments, environment variables, command groups, default values, and more) and Bashly generates the Bash code to make it a reality. There are numerous examples in the GitHub repo.

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