Mind Expansion

This issue is loaded with some meaty information. From blogs to tweets to podcasts, get your brain ready!

📝 Using Concerns with Ruby on Rails

Rails Concerns are a great way to keep your code DRY by making it easy to share code across Modules and Classes. The post will be going through some of the in-and-outs of Concerns, why they’re useful and how to use them.

www.codynorman.com/ruby/rails_concerns

📝 Loading files in Ruby · Rails Explained

A two-part series on how file autoloading works in Rails (including an explanation of what ‘zeitwerk’ really is).

www.railsexplained.com/pages/loading-files-in-ruby

🎙️ The One Where We Talk About Our STIs

Jason, Chris, and Andrew dive deep into their personal adventures and tech talks, including a detailed discussion on Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Ruby on Rails, sharing different perspectives, use-cases, and alternatives.

remoteruby.com/237

🎙Gnarly Rails with Nick Maloney

Nick Maloney is co-founder of The Gnar Company, a full service product consulting shop. Nick and Brittany discuss Gnar's project for the State of Massachusetts to build out an automated background check system. Nick shares why Rails is their default stack and why he is particularly impressed with the direction of the front-end happening in Rails 7.

www.therubyonrailspodcast.com/480

💎 testdouble/gem_dating

gem_dating is helpful to spot rough patches in a Ruby upgrade by showing how long it’s been since a gem received any attention. When two Test Double agents realized how tricky this was they created a new Ruby gem to make it easier for everyone.

github.com/testdouble/gem_dating

💎GitHub - afomera/richer_text

Contribute to afomera/richer_text development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com/afomera/richer_text

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