~rubyweekly | Issue 739 - Notebook-style Ruby coding with Jupyter Notebooks (11)

Ruby 3.4.2 Released — It’s not just Christmas Day when we get new Ruby releases, it seems to have extended to Valentine’s Day too 😍 This is one of the scheduled routine updates to meet the goal of releasing a new stable Ruby update every two months and solely fixes some bugs this time.

The State of Security in Rails 8 — Greg gave ▶️ a talk about Rails security at Rails World and while you could just watch it, maybe you’d prefer his writeup here.

Boosting JRuby Startup with AppCDS and AOT Caching — JRuby’s maintainer shares the results of an ahead-of-time caching feature being previewed in JDK 24 and how it can benefit JRuby startup times. “A huge improvement you’ll get for free”, he says.

▶  Why to Use Jupyter Notebooks with Ruby — There have been a few attempts at bringing ‘notebook’ style programming, commonly associated with Python, to Ruby (such as with IRuby) but Landon does a good job of explaining the why and the benefits here.

Camera Access with Hotwire Native — Hotwire Native is 37signals’ Rails-aligned (but not Rails exclusive) framework for building native mobile apps from webapps.

Honeybadger Keeps Getting Better — Honeybadger delivers real-time insights with performance and uptime monitoring, log management, and support for 10+ languages. Your favorite error tracker just leveled up. →

Phlex 2.0: Component-Oriented Server-Side Rendered Views Library — A way to build HTML, SVG and CSV views directly in Ruby in an object-oriented fashion with components that are simple Ruby classes. It’s pure Ruby and can be used with any Ruby framework, though phlex-rails makes it particularly easy for Rails apps. The docs are good and communicate the idea well.

🚀 FastRuby.io Makes Your Rails Upgrade Delightfully Boring with Bonsai — The team behind RailsBump.org offers gradual, 0-downtime upgrades — transform your engineering culture with our experts.

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.