💻 Rails 8 is coming soon, so DHH will kick off the second edition of #RailsWorld in Toronto with an Opening Keynote highlighting what is new in Rails today, and where the framework is headed tomorrow. The rest of the speakers will be announced in the coming days, so stay tuned for more.

💻 Indexes in Rails

SQL Indexes Basics in Rails

What are indexes? And how to add them to your Rails app?

The Rails Developer's Reference to PostgreSQL indexes

How do Database Indexes Work?

💻 Ruby protip:

Sometimes you need to check if a value is in an array and return the value if so.

ActiveSupport adds presence_in so you can do exactly this instead of using a conditional.

💻 Rails 7.2 Beta 1: Better production defaults, Dev containers, new guides design, and more

The train for the Rails 7.2 release is leaving the station and we’re excited to announce the first beta release of Rails 7.2

💻 Enqueuing jobs inside a transaction is a pitfall that's easy to fall into

Rails 7.2 automatically handles this for you by queuing up jobs _after_ the transaction is committed.

💻 Hotwire Comments with Ruby on Rails

Hotwire is a library that brings real-time functionality to your Rails applications. By integrating Hotwire-enabled comments, you can create a more interactive and immersive experience for your readers. That’s our focus today.

With Hotwire, we can enhance a typical blob comment with Rails in the following ways:

- Enable real-time commenting without page reloads
- Display new comments as they are posted.
- Update comment counts dynamically.
- Enhance user engagement and encourage discussion.
- Delete and edit comments without reloading pages

📮 RubyConfTH 2023 - Component Driven UI with ViewComponent gem by Radoslav Stankov

A talk from RubyConfTH 2023, held in Bangkok, Thailand on October 6-7, 2023.
Find out more and register for updates for our next conference at https://rubyconfth.com/

💻 Rails pro tips

Did you know that you can use constraints with regular expressions to validate dynamic segments in routes?

📮 When installing ViewComponent, don't forget to add this line

💻 RAILS PRO TIPS

Rails makes implementing Content Security Policy (CSP) HTTP headers easy

For recall, CSP helps prevent the execution of inline scripts and only allows scripts from trusted sources.

💻 Endless method - a quick intro

The endless method was added to Ruby version 3.0 in 2020.

DHH: Creator of Ruby on Rails shows off his new Ubuntu setup, and lets you copy his setup with one command

❤ omakub.org

💻 How to build a Rails API with rate limiting

How secure is your API? Learn how to build an API with Ruby on Rails and use rack-attack to keep the bad actors out.

💻 Rails pro tips

Did you know that Rails 7 now supports virtual columns?

Take advantage of this feature to create virtual columns calculated by the database during INSERT and UPDATE

💻 Light Services: A New Ruby Gem for Service Objects

Light Services is a simple yet powerful way to organize your business logic. This Ruby gem helps you build services that are easy to test, maintain, and understand.

💻 SaaS on Rails on PostgreSQL | POSETTE 2024

Video of a conference talk about Saas on Rails on PostgreSQL presented by Andrew Atkinson at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024. In this talk attendees will learn how Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL can be used to create scalable SaaS applications, focusing on schema and query design, and leveraging database capabilities.

💻 Turbo Native & Strada: Turning a web-only Rails app native

Going Native: We go step-by-step to turn our web-only Rails app native using Turbo Native & Strada

💻 Rails 7 modified the behavior of transaction blocks

Now, early block termination triggers a rollback instead of committing the transaction

💻 Refactoring transaction blocks with the endless method

You can use the endless method to name a transaction block in Rails

👩‍💻 The Short Ruby Newsletter edition 96 is out

Here is a highlight of some of the information inside