💎 Ruby Radar #18 - Happy Spooky Month

Welcome to the eighteenth issue of Ruby Radar and a happy October to all!

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📚 Ruby Garbage Collection in Under Two Hours

Jemma was kind enough to offer a discount code for readers of the newsletter to pick up her new and wonderful ebook. Make sure you check it out and thank you so incredibly much Jemma!

💎 stevepolitodesign/unsubscribe — github.com

Automatically unsubscribe from emails in Rails.

💎 excid3/esbuild-rails — github.com

Rails plugin for Esbuild.

🎙 Remote Ruby: Making Magic with ImageMagick — remoteruby.com

On today’s episode, we find out more about Jason’s interesting project he’s working on with a Mockup Generator and how MiniMagick has been working very well for him. We also get a little lesson on the magic behind ImageMagick, and hear more about the Rails 7 upgrade, Turbolinks, and Turbo.

🎙 The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 385: Minimal Flame Wars (Prettier, Parsing and Regex) with Kevin Newton — www.therubyonrailspodcast.com

Kevin Newton is a staff engineer at Shopify on the Ruby and Rails infrastructure team. The trio (Kevin, Nick and Brittany) discuss RubyKaiji talks, Kevin's work on the Prettier plug-in for Ruby and RegularExpression, the Shopify HackDays project Kevin and Nick worked on.

📝 Using the new `weekday_select` in Rails 7 — dev.to

The PRs for weekday_options_for_select and weekday_select have been merged so you can try them out in the alpha release of Rails 7. Since the "complete" feature spans 2 PRs here's a quick article on how to use the new methods.

📝 Code Golf: Conditionally Add To An Array — dev.to

Ruby’s expressiveness and vast API provides a myriad of ways to solve the same problem. This post proposes different ways to add elements to an array only if a certain condition applies.

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