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💎 It's Almost that Magical Time Of Year...

💎 It's Almost that Magical Time Of Year...

...where we get a new Ruby version! 🎉

Andrew Mason & Collin Jilbert
December 17, 2023

📝 Ruby 3.3 Introduces Range#overlap? method

Compare two ranges and see if they overlap each other.

`overlap?` returns true if two ranges overlap each other, otherwise false.

blog.saeloun.com/2023/12/11/ruby-3-3-introduces-range-overlap

📝Ruby 3.3 resolves the Range#size bug for rational endpoints

Ruby 3.3 addresses a bug in the Range#size method related to rational endpoints, ensuring accurate counting. Learn how this fix enhances functionality and resolves issues in working with ranges.

blog.saeloun.com/2023/12/04/ruby-3-3-range-size-method-rational-endpoint

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Something I find especially fun about Phlex is documentation site is built with Phlex; learn Phlex from the docs and also from the docs source! #ruby
— Ross Kaffenberger (@rossta)
Dec 16, 2023

I keep thinking that if we really want to achieve true, well-factored OOP, we need to enforce a maximum of 1 parameter per function.
Want more? Make an object. Oh you want options? Make an object. Want to return multiple values? Make an object.
— Kevin Newton (@kddnewton)
Dec 17, 2023

💎 thechrisoshow/ruby-gemini

This is the Ruby api for the Google Gemini LLM.

github.com/thechrisoshow/ruby-gemini

☝️ This gem was inspired by the very awesome ruby-openai gem from Alex Rudall, which we just wanted to call out in case you haven’t tried it out yet. If you are interested in learning more, checkout this X/Twitter community where a bunch of these developers hangout.

💎 ruby/prism - Release v0.19.0

Added:
- ArrayNode now has a contains_splat? flag if it has a splatted element in it
- All of the remaining encodings have been implemented.
- Allow forwarding & in a method that has a ... parameter.
and more!

github.com/ruby/prism/releases/tag/v0.19.0

☝️Kevin hacked on Prism live with hexdevs this week. You can find the complete recording on X/Twitter.

🎙Episode 31 - Elise Shaffer

We talk about Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and everything in between. From tiny tips to bigger challenges we take on 3 questions a show; What are you working on? What's blocking you? What's something cool you want to share?

podcast.drbragg.dev/episodes/episode-31-elise-shaffer

🎙Unleashing the Power of Postgres with Andrew Atkinson - Remote Ruby

Ever wondered why a seasoned software engineer would transition into becoming an author? Meet our guest for today, Andrew Atkinson, a software veteran who is about to launch his book focusing on database operations for Rails developers. Andrew's r...

www.remoteruby.com/2260490/14003765-unleashing-the-power-of-postgres-with-andrew-atkinson

Find anything cool yet this week? Don’t keep it to yourself!