Random Ruby Newsletter #30

Author of telegraph version Dmitry Evgenevich

Hey there! A fresh compilation of most interesting articles and tools is here! I hope you’ll like it: there is stuff on Phoenix, performance and several cool things to try. Read on!

Articles

The Practical Guide to Using ActionCable - Long and thorough guide on ActionCable. Have you tried it already? You should.

A Five Minutes Guide to Better Typography - We, developers, rarely have a nice grip of good UI but this could help.

Configuring Puma, Unicorn and Passenger for Maximum Efficiency - Nate Bercopec knows this stuff better than anyone I heard of, so read it, use it, and your app will fly.

Superfast CSV imports using PostgreSQL's COPY command - Import and export operations usually take some time but we can use PG’s COPY to make it quick. Thank god.

Today I Learned in Phoenix - Hashrocket rewrote their TIL service in Phoenix and it is still opensource! Good opportunity to take a look at clean Elixir code.

My Failed Attempt Switching to Linux – Adam Hawkins - Why you should use what you accustomed to and also why you should try new things to work with.

Stuff

GitHub - danielwestendorf/get_schwifty: - Render portions of your Rails view in a background job queue. ActiveJob + ActionCable. Looks very interesting.

Caddy - The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS - Nice and clean web server to use as an alternative to Nginx. Or at least just to play.

Trumail | Free Email Verification API - To be honest, I didn’t even know that you can just check if an email address exists and there it is: free and opensource email verification. And Mailgun takes money for such service.

GitHub - zverok/did_you: Ruby version-agnostic wrapper for did_you_mean gem - Title says it all.

In short

Hacktoberfest started 1st of October! You can get free t-shirt and stickers (as I did 3 years in a row) from DigitalOcean and GitHub. Don’t miss!

Sublime Text 3 released. An update was smooth and nothing was broken. Even plugins.

An awesome checklist for side project marketing. You could think “wait, there is like 100 items in it!” but it’s better than nothing. Much better.

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Eugene.