~rubyweekly | Issue 735 - Jean's epic journey to optimize Ruby's JSON parsing (11)

has_some_of_many: Optimized Top-N-Per-Group Active Record Associations — Adds optimized association methods (has_one_of_many, has_some_of_many) for ‘top N’ queries to Active Record using efficient JOIN LATERAL queries.

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AutoHtml: Filters That Transform Plain Text Into HTML Code — For situations where even Markdown might be overkill (although it is an option..)

Ruby Next: Transpile Modern Ruby Code to Run on Older Versions — An interesting way to get Ruby code written with the latest syntax to run on older versions or alternative implementations (like mruby or Opal, say). This playground shows off the basic idea, and this could be useful for library maintainers or anyone who wants to experiment. GitHub repo.

Optimizing Ruby’s JSON — Rails core team member Jean concludes a seven-part series going super deep into efforts made to significantly boost the performance of Ruby’s json library, with the end results trumping many of the alternatives. We linked to this when Jean began the series, but now the whole epic journey is here to enjoy.

Using CloudFlare Turnstile to Protect Certain Pages on a Rails App — Turnstile is a free service that replaces CAPTCHAs with Cloudflare’s proprietary bot detection approach.

Stealthly Browsing and Scraping with Ferrum — Ferrum is a Ruby library for remotely controlling Chrome and Harrison shares some tips for staying under the radar when using it. (As always with these things, obey local laws and use your best judgment as to what is responsible.)

Rage: An HTTP API Framework Compatible with Rails — There are plenty of ‘alternative’ Ruby webapp and HTTP API approaches (e.g. Sinatra, Roda, or Hanami) but ‘Rails compatibility’ is the big win for this high performance, fiber-based API-only option. v1.12.0 adds a Redis adapter for scaling Cable-based apps across servers.

Lrama: Pure Ruby LALR Parser Generator — An official Ruby project to implement an LALR parser generator in pure Ruby with a goal of providing error tolerant Ruby parsing.

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Memetria K/V: High-Performance Key-Value Hosting — Boost your Ruby apps with Memetria K/V, providing portable, easy-to-use hosting for Redis OSS and Valkey. Scale your applications with ease and achieve high performance. Includes detailed analytics and large key memory tracking.