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Upgrading Rails, Rack, yarp, and more!

Andrew Mason & Collin Jilbert
August 27, 2023

📝 10 Strategies for Upgrading Ruby or Rails Applications With Low Test Coverage

Upgrade your Ruby or Rails application confidently, even with low test coverage, by implementing the strategies and best practices outlined in this blog post.

www.fastruby.io/blog/10-strategies-for-upgrading-ruby-or-rails-applications-with-low-test-coverage.html

📝 A pragmatic guide to building a Rack application from scratch

Learn how to build a production ready Rack application without a framework like Rails or Sinatra.

thoughtbot.com/blog/ruby-rack-tutorial

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— Ben Orenstein (@r00k)
Aug 24, 2023

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— RubyCademy (@RubyCademy)
Aug 25, 2023

🎙 IndieRails | Matt Gordon - Going from Consulting to Products

Jeremy and Jess interview indie developers who have a passion for the Rails framework and bring their hustle and creativity to building a business. They strive to understand the challenges these developers face and how they are overcoming them to create successful businesses.

www.indierails.com/15

🎙 Remote Ruby | Ain't Your Callback Girl

In this episode, Chris, Jason, and Andrew engage in a discussion revolving around the functionality and nuances of generated columns, callbacks, and coding practices in database and Rails applications.

remoteruby.com/239

💎 ruby/yarp - Release v0.9.0

Added Regular expressions can now be bound by \n, \r, and a combination of \r\n. Strings delimited by %, %q, and %Q can now be bound by \n, \r, and a combination of \r\n. IntegerNode#value now ret...

github.com/ruby/yarp/releases/tag/v0.9.0

💎 jjb/ruby-clock - Release v2.0.0

A ruby job scheduler which runs jobs each in their own thread in a persistent process.

github.com/jjb/ruby-clock

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