~rubyweekly | Bookmarks (168)

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.

🤖 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.

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.

✅ 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.

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

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

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.

🤖 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 Outdated gems?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.

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.

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.

Optimize Ruby App Performance in Real-Time — Visualize Ruby performance using detailed flame graphs to identify bottlenecks and latency. Debug and optimize your code by tracing requests across web servers, databases, and services with Datadog APM. Start a free trial today.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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