Ruby AST in the Browser

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Andrew Mason & Collin Jilbert
October 29, 2023

📝Effects of Pitchfork reforking on Shopify’s Monolith

Over the last year, I’ve been working on a new Ruby application server called Pitchfork. In most regards it’s extremely similar to the venerable Unicorn, from which it originates, but with one major extra feature: Reforking, which reduce memory usage of Ruby applications.

railsatscale.com/2023-10-23-pitchfork-impact-on-shopify-monolith

📝Limiting Maximum Index Name Length in Ruby on Rails 7.1

Rails 7.1 defined maximum limit of 62 bytes for auto-generated index names.

blog.saeloun.com/2023/10/24/rails-index-name-too-long

You can now access the prism Ruby parser in JavaScript (node or the browser) through the @ruby/prism npm package.
This gives you access to all of the rich AST information that you can normally access through Ruby/C/Rust, but now in the browser!
github.com/ruby/prism/blo…
— Kevin Newton (@kddnewton)
Oct 26, 2023

put out an amazing live stream of upgrading an app from Rails 3.2 to Rails 7. I wrote about some of the things I learned. jamgar.github.io/rails,/upgrade…
#rails#rubyonrails
— James Garcia (@jamgar2020)
Oct 26, 2023

🎙DHH on Rails World 2023 & Rails 7.1 - Remote Ruby

In this episode, Jason and Chris welcome DHH, who joins them after the recent Rails World event. They cover a wide range of topics from the Rails Foundation’s mission to attract new talent to open source misconceptions, the value of open source co...

www.remoteruby.com/2260490/13851013

🎙Rails World Live! Pt.1 With Nick Schwaderer and Andrew Mason

Nick was at Rails World earlier this month and took the chance to chat with Andrew Mason about podcasting, engaging with the Ruby community, how interest rates impact the tech industry, Turbo , and some of the new things announced at Rails World.

www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/493

💎 rails/importmap-rails - Release v1.2.3

What's Changed Fix using this gem outside of a Rails application by @rafaelfranca New Contributors @rafaelfranca made their first contribution in #201 Full Changelog: v1.2.2...v1.2.3

github.com/rails/importmap-rails/releases/tag/v1.2.3

💎 activerecord-hackery/ransack - Release 4.1.1

🐛 Bug Fixes Fix using ransack against edge Rails by @tvongaza in #1445 New Contributors @tvongaza made their first contribution in #1445 Full Changelog: v4.1.0...4.1.1

github.com/activerecord-hackery/ransack/releases/tag/4.1.1

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