Meetups, Rails Announcements, and more!

Chicago Ruby returns, Rails World approaches, and a new Rails version!

Andrew Mason & Collin Jilbert
August 13, 2023

📆 The Return of the Chicago Ruby Meetup

Are you in Chicago? The Chicago Ruby Meetup is trying to get going again! Don’t miss out!

August 24th @ 6:00pm
The Long Room
1612 W Irving Park Rd Chicago, IL 60613

www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/events/295203870

You've met the speakers, now hear the topics. The #RailsWorld full agenda is now live. Check it out: rubyonrails.org/world/agenda
— Ruby on Rails (@rails)
Aug 2, 2023

Rails 7.0.7 has been released
— Ruby on Rails (@rails)
Aug 10, 2023

📝 TIL: Turbo Stream and personalised content

Ever wanted to render different content for the current user vs other users in partials being handled by Turbo? I frequently do, but I was surprised to find basically nothing online about how to do it. Here’s one approach that works pretty well

goodenough.us/blog/2023-08-02-til-turbo-stream-and-personalised-content

📝 Ruby and Jupyter Notebooks

Does Ruby have something similar to Jupyter notebooks? Turns out that you can just use Jupyter notebooks with Ruby if you setup the iruby kernel. Read on to see how.

nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-jupyter-notebooks

🎙IndieRails | Nadia Odunayo - Building The StoryGraph

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/14

🎙Everything is Awe(ful)some! (Brittany + Brian)

Even though not a ton has changed in the last 4 months since Brittany and Brian last recorded the State of Rails Hiring, this hiring market is both awful and awesome depending on who you talk to. The duo dig into AI generated cover letters, the good and bad symptoms of what is happening in the economy and specific tactics to help get engineers and employers over the hump.

www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/482

marcoroth/gem.sh

Beautiful documentation for any Ruby gem.

github.com/marcoroth/gem.sh

💎Release v0.1.4 · tenderlove/tinygql

What's Changed Add scalar schema extensions by @tenderlove in #5 Add the rest of the object type extensions by @tenderlove in #6 Full Changelog: v0.1.3...v0.1.4

github.com/tenderlove/tinygql/releases/tag/v0.1.4

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