Jul 3, 2022

💎 Ruby Radar #57 - Holiday Weekend

By Andrew Mason & Collin Jilbert • Issue #52 • View online

Welcome to the 57th issue of Ruby Radar! If you are in the US, we hope you have a fun & safe July 4th!

Don’t forget you can send content to us on GitHub!

🎙 Women On Rails and VirtualCoffee.io with Aurelie Verrot

Enchanté. Aurelie Verrot is a developer originally from France who now lives in California. She is Software Engineer at Zendesk, working in the i18n team. She answers all of Brittany’s questions about working at Zendesk, translating the beloved Women On Rails newsletter and VirtualCoffee.io.

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🎙 Ruby Infrastructure with Ufuk Kayserilioglu

Our special guest is Ufuk Kayserilioglu, who’s the Engineering Manager of the Ruby Infrastructure Team at Shopify. We’ll hear Ufuk’s story about his pathway to programming and Ruby, we learn more about his job and his team at Shopify, where their project ideas come from, and how they’re very close to production workloads running TruffleRuby.

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📝 The most underrated Rails helper: dom_id | Boring Rails: Skip the bullshit and ship fast

One of the oldest helpers in Rails is also the most underrated. dom_id shines for building apps with Hotwire, allowing you to easily target parts of the page without a bunch of nasty string interpolation.

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📝 Identifying slow Rails queries with sqlcommenter

Learn how to use sqlcommenter with Rails

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Andrew Culver

@andrewculver

Absolutely crazy: You can now click a button in our README and get started building a new Rails app with Bullet Train, in your browser, on Gitpod, without installing anything, all for free. 🤯 Thank you for this @leenyburger and @aarondfrancis, and also @existentialmutt! 🙏 https://t.co/Zg7vOr88WY

10:53 AM - 2 Jul 2022

Nate Hopkins 🐝

@hopsoft

When I discovered Ruby and Rails, it was literally a 10x boost to my productivity. Nothing... and I mean NOTHING has come close to matching it. It's baffling to me that the industry doesn't hold new tech to this standard. It's why I continue to bet on Ruby and Rails.

9:25 PM - 30 Jun 2022