~rubyweekly | Issue 742 - Sidekiq 8.0 (11)

Introducing Sidekiq 8.0 — Ruby’s most popular background job framework has a new release that adds easy-to-do profiling, a significant overhaul to its WebUI, a new ‘job iteration’ feature for dividing long running jobs into smaller chunks, and more. Redis 7+ and Ruby 3.2+ are now required.

Better Know a Ruby Thing: Method Lookup — “Let’s talk about method lookup in Ruby, which is from one perspective really clean and simple, and from another angle, kind of messy.”

Tech Debt Slowing You Down? A Case Study About Bonsai — See how Bonsai by FastRuby.io  transformed Valid Eval with 2–5x performance gains, speedy upgrades, and enhanced security. Read the case study and boost your productivity. 🚀

Four Choices for Packaging Ruby Binary Distributions — Well, not exactly. Many attempts have been made over the years to distribute Ruby apps in binary form, but most seem abandoned. However, Tebako is looking like a good, maintained option with an active community.

Rails 8's Solid Trifecta: Cache, Cable, and Queue — A comparison of Rails 8’s new systems for caching, WebSocket management, and background job queues versus the established options.

An Opinionated Guide to Configuring Rails on Heroku — A variety of settings and other considerations for getting the most out of your Heroku setup.

✅ What Happens When Code Reviews Aren’t Mandatory? — Code reviews can feel like bottlenecks, slowing progress and increasing frustration. Find out about an experiment to make them optional.

Debugbar: DevTools-Like Introspection for Rails Apps — Debugbar adds an area to the bottom of your Rails app’s views (in dev only) that shows off queries, jobs, request details, and more. GitHub repo.

🤖 RubyLLM: Work with AI the Ruby Way — A single, Ruby-centric way to interact with LLM models. RubyLLM currently supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and DeepSeek models and can analyze PDFs, generate images, and integrate into Rails applications.

Want to Roll Your Own Autoscaling? Here Are Our Secrets 🤫 — Does it make sense for us to write this guide? No! Did we do it anyway? Yes! We did it for you ❤️

Turnstiled: Use Cloudflare Turnstile in Rails Apps — Turnstile is a Cloudflare service that replaces CAPTCHAs – you’ve almost certainly encountered them on many sites.