~rubyweekly | Issue 740 - A fresh way to package Ruby apps as binaries (10)

Sorbet Adds Support for RBS Comments — Long before RBS was a thing, Sorbet brought type checking to Ruby and it now has (experimental) support for using RBS comments for adding types to methods. This is a neat synergy given that most Ruby type checkers for Ruby are converging towards RBS for type annotations.

Compiling Ruby Apps to Binaries with Tebako — A look into Tebako, a tool (written in Ruby itself) for packaging and distributing apps written in numerous languages into binaries that can be distributed for Windows, macOS and Linux users. It does this by essentially turning an app into a self-executing container. GitHub repo.

Tech Debt Dragging You Down? A Case Study About Bonsai — Too many security CVEs in production? Is your Rails app lagging due to tech debt? See how Bonsai transformed Valid Eval with 2–5× performance gains, smoother upgrades, and enhanced security. Read the case study and reclaim your time. 🚀

How to Submit a Better RailsConf Talk Proposal — The CFP for RailsConf 2025 closes tomorrow so if you’d like to speak, now’s the time to submit your proposal, and following the tips in this post could increase your chances.

Dealing with (Hypothetical) Sham Packages — A fictional-but-based-on-experience account of how a malicious version update for a package/gem can easily make it into your codebase. Do you check every version bump from every dependency? This account might make you think a bit differently about blindly accepting minor version upgrades.

Building an Inertia App with Rails — Get the benefits of a React-based SPA approach on the frontend while keeping Rails in the backend.

Why Ruby on Rails Still Matters — You’re reading a Ruby newsletter, so you probably don’t need to be convinced of Rails’ relevance. This post doesn’t say a lot but did lead to a rather extensive Hacker News discussion.

So About Those “Noisy Neighbors”… 😬 — Discovering some unfortunate realities of shared hardware (standard dynos??) and how they impact your app (also, tigers?).

Rails::Diff: Compare Rails-Generated Files with the Ones in Your App — You might diligently upgrade your app to new Rails versions but still have differences from how Rails’ default app generator now does things. This lets you see what those differences are.

Bsky Parser: Bluesky Text Parser That Outputs Rich Text Facets — If you’ve ever written code to post to Bluesky, you’ve probably run into what a headache it is to embed links, mentions, and hashtags properly. This aims to remove that headache.