Ruby Radar
Posts
💎 It's Almost that Magical Time Of Year...

💎 It's Almost that Magical Time Of Year...

...where we get a new Ruby version! 🎉

Andrew Mason & Collin Jilbert
December 17, 2023

📝 Ruby 3.3 Introduces Range#overlap? method

Compare two ranges and see if they overlap each other.

`overlap?` returns true if two ranges overlap each other, otherwise false.

blog.saeloun.com/2023/12/11/ruby-3-3-introduces-range-overlap

📝Ruby 3.3 resolves the Range#size bug for rational endpoints

Ruby 3.3 addresses a bug in the Range#size method related to rational endpoints, ensuring accurate counting. Learn how this fix enhances functionality and resolves issues in working with ranges.

blog.saeloun.com/2023/12/04/ruby-3-3-range-size-method-rational-endpoint

BTW, if you are interested in solving problems at scale, I found How we designed Flipper Cloud to never take your app down to be a great read from our friend John Nunemaker over on Flipper Cloud! Speaking of…🐬

Less 💥, more 😎.

Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags. Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then rollout features when you are good and ready.

Start flipping features for free at flippercloud.io.

Something I find especially fun about Phlex is documentation site is built with Phlex; learn Phlex from the docs and also from the docs source! #ruby
— Ross Kaffenberger (@rossta)
10:42 PM • Dec 16, 2023

I keep thinking that if we really want to achieve true, well-factored OOP, we need to enforce a maximum of 1 parameter per function.
Want more? Make an object. Oh you want options? Make an object. Want to return multiple values? Make an object.
— Kevin Newton (@kddnewton)
1:40 PM • Dec 17, 2023

💎 thechrisoshow/ruby-gemini

This is the Ruby api for the Google Gemini LLM.

github.com/thechrisoshow/ruby-gemini

☝️ This gem was inspired by the very awesome ruby-openai gem from Alex Rudall, which we just wanted to call out in case you haven’t tried it out yet. If you are interested in learning more, checkout this X/Twitter community where a bunch of these developers hangout.

💎 ruby/prism - Release v0.19.0

Added:
- ArrayNode now has a contains_splat? flag if it has a splatted element in it
- All of the remaining encodings have been implemented.
- Allow forwarding & in a method that has a ... parameter.
and more!

github.com/ruby/prism/releases/tag/v0.19.0

☝️Kevin hacked on Prism live with hexdevs this week. You can find the complete recording on X/Twitter.

🎙Episode 31 - Elise Shaffer

We talk about Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and everything in between. From tiny tips to bigger challenges we take on 3 questions a show; What are you working on? What's blocking you? What's something cool you want to share?

podcast.drbragg.dev/episodes/episode-31-elise-shaffer

🎙Unleashing the Power of Postgres with Andrew Atkinson - Remote Ruby

Ever wondered why a seasoned software engineer would transition into becoming an author? Meet our guest for today, Andrew Atkinson, a software veteran who is about to launch his book focusing on database operations for Rails developers. Andrew's r...

www.remoteruby.com/2260490/14003765-unleashing-the-power-of-postgres-with-andrew-atkinson

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