Random Ruby Newsletter #25

Author of telegraph version Dmitry Evgenevich

Hey, guys! This is all-new 25th issue or Random Ruby newsletter. I hope you’ll like it. Please send your feedback in the reply or whatever way you find convenient.

P.S. First issue in English. Wow!

Articles

How To Light A Fire Under Your Butt - Nice and motivating article on how to find yourself once again. Could be useful if you lost yourself a long time ago.

A Rubyist's Guide to Postgresql's Explain - Superforce available to Rubyists right now! Check it out!

SO[L]ID - Liskov Substitution Principle - L of SOLID. Nice article with examples. Make sure you’ve read previous articles. Or at least bookmark them, Jesus.

Upgrading Shopify to Rails 5 - How Shopify, Rails’ early adopter, upgraded to the 5th version of the framework.

Gathering weak npm credentials - An epic story about how careless could be people. Don’t be like them.

Rails 5.1's form_with vs. old form helpers - Pretty useful explanation about the difference between Rails 5.1’s form_with and good ol’ form_for and form_tag.

Faster Rails: Indexing Large Database Tables Without Downtime - Everyone wants to have 99.99999% uptime. Useful trick.

An Overview of the Logging Ecosystem in 2017 - Couple (or a bit more) words on logging. What, why and how.

Made a Phoenix webapp as a veteran Rails dev. - An opinion on Elixir and Phoenix from Rails-guy. Pretty interesting.

A better way to import all your records using ActiveRecord Import! - It’s all about speed. This time you’ll know something new about how to import stuff faster.

Tell, Don't Ask - Robots are always right. That’s why I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

Stuff

Serverspec - Tests for your infrastructure. Must have.

dexter: The automatic indexer for Postgres - Title says it all. Use it.

Demystifying Rails - Fresh free book from Launch School. Free stuff is awesome! Especially when it could be really useful.

We Are All Awesome! - A bunch of stuff for everyone who wants to be a public speaker. This is pretty interesting experience, if you ask me, so check it out. Who knows, maybe you’ll be opening next Big Ruby Conference.

In short

Railscasts Pro and Revised are now free for everyone!

In Ruby 2.4 constants TRUE, FALSE and NIL are deprecated.

How Pattern Matching works in Elixir. In case you didn’t know.

Random text

As I said in the beginning of this issue, this is the first issue in English. I really hope you’ll like it and newsletter itself.

Till next issue!