This article is a high-level overview of design patterns that are commonly used in Ruby on Rails applications. I also mention the cons and pros.

ORMs, often criticized, are typically misused rather than inherently flawed. While they present challenges in visibility and performance, correct usage can mitigate these issues.

A round up of the most-read and most-loved contributions from the community this past week

The number of leaked information from Copilot were surprising. I’ll show you what it his and how to prevent it your code from leaking.

Closures and anonymous functions are very useful concepts, especially in functional programming. Ruby makes working with them a pleasure via its flavors like blocks, procs, and lambdas. This post provides an in-depth tutorial and shows the subtle differences between them.

At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you through the motivations behind this work, the way it was developed, and the path forward.

I am a Ruby on Rails developer based in Victoria, BC. This blog is my attempt to spread the joy of building web applications in Ruby on Rails with the world.

File: Advanced I/O with Polyphony — Documentation for polyphony (1.1.1) URL: https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/polyphony/file/docs/advanced-io.md Type: link Domain: rubydoc.info Notes: Filed under things I didn’t know about IO with Ruby. Still love that language! This gem takes advantage of Unix “splices” to speed up IO when reading and writing large amounts of data.

I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…

The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic.

I won't make any dict joke

Community by the Numbers, Part One: Group Thresholds URL: http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2008/09/group-threshold.html Type: link Domain: lifewithalacrity.com Notes: We often think of communities as organic creatures, which come into existence and grow on their own. However, the truth is they are fragile blossoms. Highlights: - {'text': 'We often think of communities as organic creatures, which come into existence and grow on their own. However, the truth is they are fragile blossoms.', 'note': '', 'color': 'yellow', 'created': '2023-06-14T20:26:55.281Z', 'lastUpdate': '2023-06-14T20:27:30.983Z', 'creatorRef': 624427, '_id': '648a22b2c3026acc91faf7ea'}

Academics are addicted to p-hacking, data torturing, and other statistical sins. We must break these habits.

Get started building with Ruby 3.2 today by making necessary changes for compatibility with Ruby 3.2, and specifying a runtime parameter value of ruby3.2 when creating or updating your Lambda functions.

Alternate Python REPL - bpython URL: https://bpython-interpreter.org/ Type: link Domain: bpython-interpreter.org Notes: I had not come across this alternate python repl. It looks interesting and I need to investigate it further. It has some very cool features.

Git is actually sooo hard. Not just to learn, but also to use consistently. And I say that as a person who used it for probably over ten years. Here’s my thoughts on the matter.

An intro to Rails Engines are an architectural pattern that can be used to modularize or pack a Rails application. An article about this powerful f...

Concerns are an important concept in Rails that can be confusing to understand for those new to Rails as well as seasoned practitioners. This post explains what concerns are, how they work, and how & when you should use them to simplify your code, with practical, real-world examples.

Creating recommendations with pgvector, ruby-openai, and the neighbor gem.

Rails cache using the Brotli algorithm offers better compression and performance. - GitHub - pawurb/rails-brotli-cache: Rails cache using the Brotli algorithm offers better compression and performa...