~rubyweekly | Issue 741 - On the state of Ractors in Ruby (12)

What’s the Deal with Ractors? — Introduced in Ruby 3.0, Ractors provide an actor-based, truly parallel (bye GVL!) execution model, but they still remain experimental and any idea of their widespread use hasn’t panned out. Jean digs into what makes them tick, what they offer, and why they still have their uses, despite the current shortcomings.

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The Pitchfork Story — Rails core member and Shopify engineer Jean led the development of a Rack HTTP server called Pitchfork. Here, he goes into a lot of fascinating depth about the motivations behind Pitchfork’s creation, the memory efficiency it offers, and teaches us quite a bit about Ruby along the way.

Rails Views, Web Components, React.. Why Make a Choice? — A novel take on choosing an approach for your app’s views. Most shops pick Rails+Hotwire or React SPAs, but Aha! looks at where each view framework excels and uses them all.

Using Phlex for Emails: Action Mailer Without ERB — Phlex has grown in popularity as a more OO ERB replacement and it suits emails pretty well too.

Keep Postgres Maintenance from Slowing Down Your Ruby App — Secure your spot to learn the proactive maintenance practices that uncover hidden database performance risks before they escalate.

Exeggutor: A Unified Interface for Managing Subprocesses — A library aiming to bring some added calm to dealing with the often fraught process of executing other programs from Ruby by way of exeg and exeg_async methods that can do it all.

🤖 OmniAI 2.0: A Unified Ruby API for Multiple AI Providers — If you’ve worked with hosted LLM platforms from Ruby before, you’ve probably used ruby-openai, but OmniAI abstracts things to support various platforms and their different features without shoehorning everything into the OpenAI approach. GitHub repo.

Seamless Rails Upgrades: Expert Maintenance. Fixed Price — Upgrade RoR smoothly. We offer expert Rails maintenance at a fixed price. Secure, performant, minimal disruptions. Outdated gems? Breaking changes? We handle it.

ParallelTests 5.0: More Cores == Faster Tests — Speed up Minitest, RSpec, Turnip, Cucumber or Spinach by running in parallel across multiple cores. v5.0 brings Ruby 3.4 support.

The Git Gem 3.0: A git Wrapper for Use from Ruby — If you want to work with the git client from Ruby, this provides an interface.