#​719 — September 12, 2024 Read on the Web ?? It's been a quiet week in the Ruby world, probably as many folks are at the EuRuKo Ruby conference in Sarajevo, including Matz. If you're there, I hope you're having a great time! __ Peter Cooper, your editor Ruby Weekly JRuby on CRaC: An Effort to Improve JRuby's Startup Time — CRaC is an OpenJDK project to speed up start times by using restorable checkpoints, and while JRuby is already a pretty fast implementation, its startup times could certainly be improved. Could CRaC be a big help? Yes! Charles Oliver Nut ..read more

#​718 — September 5, 2024 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Ruby 3.3.5 Released — Not a big release (you’ll be waiting till Christmas Day for that!) but a scheduled minor bug fix release covering a variety of issues. Based on the current schedule, 3.3.6 should land in early November. Takashi Kokubun The Thread API: Concurrent, Colorless Ruby — The latest in JP’s ongoing series about concurrency, parallelism and asynchronous programming. This time, the topic is Thread’s API, an oft misunderstood part of Ruby. JP Camara ? Need to Upgrade Rails on a ..read more

#​717 — August 29, 2024 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly ▶  The RubyKaigi 2024 Talks — RubyKaigi, essentially Ruby’s ‘home’ conference in Japan, took place in May, and now you can enjoy it from wherever you are. With a mix of Japanese and English language talks, there are some great talks worth your time, including Vinicius Stock on the state of Ruby dev tooling, Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert on breaking the Ruby performance barrier, Koichi Sasada on Ractors, Takashi Kokubun explaining how YJIT makes Rails faster, and Emma Haruka Iwao showing off Ruby’s role in ..read more

#​716 — August 22, 2024 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Transformers.rb: State-of-the-Art Transformers for Ruby — Put down that Python – great things are continuing to happen for ML aficionados in Ruby. Andrew, now widely known for his work on pgvector, has shipped a way to use Torch.rb to use transformer models from Hugging Face directly from Ruby. Andrew Kane The Rails Router Handbook — A free online book all about the Rails router that covers all the hits, including resources, nested routes, segment constraints, routing concerns, and more. Akshay K ..read more

#​715 — August 15, 2024 Read on the Web ? We're back from taking a week off, though I am still technically on the final day of my vacation, so this is a shorter than usual issue ;-) Back to full service next week! __ Peter Cooper, your editor Ruby Weekly Rails 7.2: Better Production Defaults, Dev Containers, New Guides Design, and More — Rails 7.2 is out, and it’s a doozy. After year(s) of talk, testing, and use, YJIT is now enabled by default (for Ruby 3.3 and higher), and dev containers are here so that you can Dockerize your dev environment easily ..read more

#​714 — August 1, 2024 Read on the Web ?️ Hey! Just a quick note to say that we're taking next week off for a brief summer vacation. We'll be back with our next issue on August 15. __ Peter Cooper, your editor Ruby Weekly How It Became Like This? Ruby's Range Class — An exploration of one of Ruby’s core classes — specifically the Range type and its associated syntax, looking at how it works and how its behavior has evolved over time. Victor Shepelev Developer’s Guide to Heroku Dynos — Which dynos should you use, and how many? (TLDR: Don’t use&nbs ..read more

#​713 — July 25, 2024 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Major Ruby LSP Enhancements in 2024 So Far — The Ruby Language Server Protocol gem (and VS Code plugin) has been busy this year, adding many, many features and improvements. Stan demonstrates several of these features (in VS Code) along with some coming experimental enhancements to improve your Ruby code editing experiences. Stan Lo Memetria: Redis Hosting for Serious Developers — Memetria provides secure, scalable hosting with features that enhance your development experience, including large key track ..read more

#​712 — July 18, 2024 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly IRB and Rails Console Enhancements in 2024 So Far — The last six months have brought a much-improved help system, a new extension API (so you can write your own IRB commands), a better show_source, easier debugging, and some Rails console improvements, such as showing your environment in the prompt. Be sure to have the irb gem in your Gemfile. Stan Lo Is AI Just Hype for Your Business? — Many are exploring AI, but few are realising its full potential. Let's turn your AI vision into a tangible solution ..read more

#​711 — July 11, 2024 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Finding Memory Leaks in the Ruby Ecosystem — ruby_memcheck is a tool that uses Valgrind to dig into, and debug, memory issues in native Ruby gems, an area that has historically been quite hard to work in. Peter looks at an improvement made to Ruby to track memory leaks and how you can use it. Peter Zhu ? While native gems will always be necessary, Sidekiq's Mike Perham stresses why we should minimize our use of them whenever possible and says he won't let Sidekiq use them at all. Simple, Fast ..read more

#​710 — July 4, 2024 Read on the Web Ruby Weekly Discovering an 'Old' Syntax Feature History — Victor continues his investigations into various aspects of Ruby’s features by digging into something he hadn’t noticed had made it into the language some 15 years ago: the ability to have mandatory arguments after optional arguments. I hadn’t noticed this either! Victor Shepelev JRuby's Independence Day: Red Hat Ceases Funding — The JVM-based JRuby is easily the most successful and feature-complete alternative Ruby implementation and has received much suppor ..read more