~rubyweekly | Issue 745 - RubyUI 1.0 (9)

RubyUI 1.0: Reusable Copy-and-Paste Components for Rails Apps — Formerly known as PhlexUI, RubyUI is a collection of reusable Phlex-powered components you can generate or copy and paste into your apps. There’s full documentation, as well as a page for each of the 43 components on offer, covering things like badges, checkboxes, cards, sheets, and tables. GitHub repo.

How Ruby Makes Advanced CLI Options Easy — Ruby’s OptionParser standard library offers a straightforward way to work with command line options without pulling in any dependencies.

💤 Make Ruby Upgrades Budget-Friendly & Boringly Reliable — FastRuby’s fixed-cost, monthly maintenance services keep security tight and uptime high. The team behind the `next_rails` gem makes tech debt remediation feel delightfully boring so your team can keep up with your product roadmap. 🚀

Profiling Rails Apps with Rails Debugbar — Julien Bourdeau’s DebugBar gives you an extra way to get insights into what your Rails app is doing behind the scenes, directly from a toolbar in the browser. Akshay explains how to use it to find things worth fixing.

Hiding Unfinished Features in Rails — A quick and easy tip for adding a under_construction helper that hides features outside of the development environment.

🛤️ Don’t Let Tech Debt Stop You in Your Tracks — Hire engineers with 15 years of experience to keep your Ruby on Rails app up to date, stable, and secure.

Nōdo: A Way to Call Node.js from Ruby — A mechanism for letting Ruby scripts make calls to Node.js-based functions via a Unix socket-based IPC approach. (We also learn that “ノード” means “node” in Japanese.)

Rage 1.15: An HTTP API Framework Compatible with Rails — A high performance, fiber-based API-only Web framework that boasts compatibility with Rails. v1.15.0 introduces an OpenAPI Explorer for experimenting with Rage’s OpenAPI support without needing to set up a project first.

bidi2pdf: Convert a URL to PDF using Ruby and Chrome — A proof of concept offering both a CLI and Ruby library interface to using Chrome to render PDFs of Web pages.