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Short Ruby News - edition 107 highlights

Here are some highlights from the last edition of Short Ruby Newsletter.

🚀 Launches

  • Ruby Europe launched their community and presented the plans for the rest of 2024
  • Obie Fernandez launched the book "The Rails 8 Way"
  • Pragmatic Programmers are running a 40% discount on all Ruby and Rails eBooks
  • John Pigford launched Revise - an AI Code Correction Tool
  • RoRvsWild launched their one-on-one personalized performance advice

📢 News from Rails World

  • This edition contains an entire section dedicated to Rails World where I curated a couple of the many photos, ideas and talk summaries shared online last week from the conference.

👉 All about Code and Ruby

  • Seth Horsley shared a thread about how to implement method overloading in Ruby using class methods
  • Samuel Wiliams shared how to use with_connection
  • Deepak Mahakale shared how to create aliases in Kamal 2
  • Julian Rubisch shared how they upgraded BetterStimulus.com to Kamal 2
  • Joel Drapper shared a couple of videos and code samples showing how to support async rendering in Rails using Phlex
  • In Around Code you will find the results of the Ruby on Rails community survey by Planet Argon where there are a lot of interesting updates.

And much more code samples and Ruby ideas.

🧰 Gems, Libraries, Tools and Updates

  • Mike Delassio launched tailwindcss-ruby: A self-contained tailwindcss executable, wrapped up in a ruby gem
  • Chris Oliver launched ferrum_pdf: A PDF generator for Rails using Ferrum & headless Chrome
  • Stanislav Katkov published a couple of gems about making Jekyll work with nobuild Tailwind CSS: jekyll-tailwind-cli, jekyll-heroicons and a template jekyll-tailwind-cli-template
  • Joel Drapper published a new gem called Flecks - Render IO-bound content asynchronously and stream it into a wrap-around shell in a single HTTP response with Phlex
  • Ben Sheldon started working on Spectator Sport - Record and replay browser sessions in a self-hosted Rails Engine
  • Thomas Marshall published a new gem called minitest-verify - A minitest plugin to prevent false negative tests And like there are a bunch of gem updates that we included in the newsletter.

Like always we have a lot of newsletters, videos, podcasts and a good selection of articles to choose from.

Read the full newsletter for free at https://newsletter.shortruby.com/p/edition-107

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