~rubyweekly | Issue 729 - Making Ruby faster with more Ruby and less C (14)

Awesome Nested Set: The Nested Set Pattern for ActiveRecord Models — Billed as a replacement for acts_as_nested_set and BetterNestedSet, this now supports Rails 8.

Building a Better Ruby ORM for Time Series and Analytics — TimescaleDB is a popular extension for adding high performance time series data functions to Postgres and the Timescale team has been working on a way to bring its enhanced time series features into Active Record.

pg_query 6.0: Parse, Deparse and Normalize SQL Queries with Postgres' Own Parser — Uses the actual Postgres server source to parse SQL queries and return their internal Postgres parse tree. v6.0 upgrades to using the Postgres 17 parser and the new features it supports (e.g. new JSON functions).

Oniguruma-to-ES: Convert Patterns from the Oniguruma Regex Engine to Native JS — Oniguruma is a powerful regex engine used by Ruby, TextMate, and other projects. This could be useful if you need to share regexes between Ruby, TextMate grammars, and JavaScript, say. There’s a demo.

Ruby Evolution: New Ruby Features Added in 2.0 → 3.3 — First launched a couple of years ago covering up to Ruby 3.1, Victor’s handy resource covering the key changes to the Ruby language over the years now goes up to Ruby 3.3. A fantastic way to check your knowledge of modern Ruby features.

Speeding Up Ruby by Rewriting C.. in Ruby? — A fascinating look at Ruby performance and how actually writing more of Ruby’s core implementation in Ruby itself can yield surprisingly large speedups thanks to how YJIT works (I seem to recall Rubinius had a similar thesis years ago). A lot of fun and a must read, IMO.

▶  An Interview with Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto — Ruby’s creator Matz was interviewed at the recent Baltic Ruby event about Ruby as well as his work-life balance, hobbies, and experiences being a father. It’s not super technical, but a good interview if you want to get a more rounded view of Matz and how he’s thinking about Ruby’s future.

Rails is Better 'Low Code' Than 'Low Code' — Radan plays out parallel story arcs for a ‘simple’ CRUD app that evolves new features and ultimately hits the low code ceiling. This thought piece provoked a rather lively Hacker News discussion.

Overriding Methods in Rails: A No-Code-Editing Approach — How to override a class or instance method without editing its source file in Rails.

What You Need to Know About SQLite — Lessons on what the SQLite database engine can and cannot do, how Rails helps you work with SQLite, and why it may, or may not, be a good choice to back your Rails 8 app.

Mission Control Jobs 1.0 Released — A dashboard and set of extensions that improve the operation and monitoring of background jobs running through Active Job and Solid Queue (or Resque).

Automate Embedding Creation and Syncing in Postgres with pgai Vectorizer — 🚀 pgai Vectorizer automates embedding creation and syncing in Postgres with one SQL command—keeps embeddings updated, no tools needed.

Fixed Price Monthly Code Maintenance for Rails Apps — No time to do those small but critical updates and features? CodeCare will take care of necessary tweaks, bug fixes, upgrades and ongoing improvements for your app.

Move Fast and Fix Things with Honeybadger — Honeybadger transforms your logs into rich events that help you fix issues before your users know what happened. Try our free plan!