Down and Dirty with Rails

Structs, value objects, and more in this code focused edition

Andrew Mason & Collin Jilbert
July 23, 2023

📝 Ruby Struct

In simple words, Ruby Struct is a built-in class that provides useful functionalities and shortcuts. You can use it for both logic and tests.

rubyhero.dev/ruby-struct

📝 Exploratory Guide on Active Model Dirty in Rails | Spritle Software

Explore the Active Model Dirty API in Rails with this in-depth guide. Learn how to track changes to your model objects, handle validations, and persist changes to the database.

www.spritle.com/blog/active-model-dirty-in-rails

🎙393: Is REST the Best? APIs and Domain Modeling

It's updates on the work front today! Stephanie was tasked with removing a six-year-old feature flag from a codebase. Joël's been doing a lot of small database migrations. A listener question sparked today's main discussion on gerunds' interesting relationship to data modeling.

www.bikeshed.fm/393

🎙Episode 25 - Vini Stock

Fresh off his Ruby Kaigi talk, Vini Stock, joins the show to talk about all things Ruby LSP. Even though he's given a plethora of talks on the subject already there's so much to LSPs and to the future and vision of this project that I learned a ton while recording. Vini confirms what I always suspected, that getting paid to work on developer tooling is awesome. I'm super excited about this project and I suspect after listening to this episode you will be too!

podcast.drbragg.dev/episodes/episode-25-vini-stock

📺 Upcase : Value Objects

In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can improve the interface of an Active Record Model by extracting existing logic into value objectsby using Rails’ composed_of macro.

thoughtbot.com/upcase/videos/value-objects

Include 𝑨𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕::𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 to your library to take advantage of a complete 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧! 🤯
#rubyonrails#activesupport#configurationpattern
— RubyCademy (@RubyCademy)
Jul 23, 2023

I dumped everything I know about Ruby operators into a blog post. Hopefully folks find this helpful! There are more than you think.
kddnewton.com/2023/07/20/rub…
— Kevin Newton (@kddnewton)
Jul 20, 2023

💎 inkstak/factory_bot-awesome_linter

Awesome linter for FactoryBot. Contribute to inkstak/factory_bot-awesome_linter development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com/inkstak/factory_bot-awesome_linter

💎Release v2.21.1 · davetron5000/gli

Drop official support for 2.x rubies and add 3.1 and 3.2 to the build matrix Fix typo in rake task (See #318 / thanks @mattbrictson!) Remove use of File.exists? which was removed from Ruby 3.2 (See...

github.com/davetron5000/gli/releases/tag/v2.21.1

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