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Webpacker 5.0 released
Get to know what’s new in Webpacker 5.0 - the default JavaScript compiler for Rails apps [more inside]
Chaskiq with third party API integrations
Hi, I’m very happy to announce that we’ve released some API integrations on Chaskiq.io (the open source alternative to intercom). The new integrations are: Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Slack, Twitter, Calendly and Zoom! Check our repo at https://github.com/chaskiq/chaskiq & Have a nice chat!
StatusCode: Our Weekly Programming Newsletter
You’re not just a Rubyist, you’re a software developer, right? :-) Check out StatusCode Weekly, our language and architecture agnostic newsletter that covers the biggest news across the entire software development world.
Why and How to Host your Rails 6 App with AWS ElasticBeanstalk and RDS
When you deploy a new Rails app, you typically face a double-bind. If you use an easy platform like Heroku, you could create problems for yourself as your application scales. If you use a more fully-featured platform, you risk wasting time on ops that could be spent on your product. What if you could have both: an easy deployment option that is easy to scale? In this article, Amos Omondi argues that AWS Elastic Beanstalk gives us both, then he shows us everything we need to know to get a Rails 6 app up and running on EB. https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/rails-6-aws-elastic-beanstalk/
render_async Fires Events By Default
The new version brings a couple of good news in these rough times. [more inside]
Enums as constants in Ruby DSL
Check out my latest post describes how to deal with enums and safety in your pure Ruby application.
ViewComponent v2.0.0 released
ViewComponent is a view component framework for Rails built by and used at GitHub, compatible with the support for 3rd-party component frameworks coming in Rails 6.1 and backwards compatible with Rails 5+, previously known as ActionView::Component.
Sinatra bootstrap application
For quite some time now, I’ve been developing some Sinatra applications, one of the things I love about Sinatra is it’s modularity, but I also miss a lot of features which I have to add all the time. That’s why I created an opinionated bootstrap application which has configured Activesupport, Activerecord, Sidekiq and some other goodies. [more inside]
RuboCoping with legacy: Bring your Ruby code up to Standard
Learn how to introduce good style into mature codebases that are lacking some Rubocop love.
New release Truemail 🚀 configurable framework agnostic plain Ruby 📨 email validator
Meet new Truemail 1.6.1 release: https://github.com/rubygarage/truemail Also Truemail is available as independent application - Truemail server:
An overview on static websites with Jekyll
Is there any reason to prefer a dynamic platform to develop a certain website? A little overview on static websites with Jekyll
tablesmith 0.6.0 released
Yet another console table tool, focused on minimal config. [more inside]
A CLI app to fetch and compare numbers on coronavirus
With too much time on my hands in quarantine, I quickly wrote a CLI to fetch and compare data on the coronavirus: [more inside]
Solidus Events with ActiveSupport::Notifications
Solidus (the open-source Rails eCommerce) introduced events some months ago. Solidus Events are based on rails’ ActiveSupport::Notifications, so no external library was used. This article explores how they work and how they can be used to customize a store.