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💎 Ruby Radar #34 - The Life and Death of Webpacker
Welcome to the 34th edition of Ruby Radar! We are shining a spotlight on Felipe Vogel at the bottom of this edition, so don't miss that! Also, Webpacker is dead! What do you think?
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RETIREMENT: Webpacker has served the Rails community for over five years as a bridge to compiled and bundled JavaScript. This bridge is no longer needed for most people in most situations following the release of Rails 7.
— Ruby on Rails (@rails)
12:05 PM • Jan 19, 2022
Feature flags (or feature toggles) are a neat way to hide in-progress features from your users. For those who need a simple on-and-off system, here's a minimal feature flag manager that'll take less than an hour to build, using plain Ruby objects, the Rails configuration, and some neat variables organization.
vite_rails is a fantastic gem that completely drop the need for jsbundling, Webpacker, importmaps and/or Sprockets.
We're scheduling interviews! Who wants to come on the show to talk about software concepts + principles, language concepts + design, and/or software design and architecture?!
— Polyglot Podcast (@PolyglotShow)
7:17 PM • Jan 21, 2022
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On this episode, we are chatting with Adam McCrea, who is a Ruby Developer, and the Founder and Developer of a Heroku add-on called Rails Autoscale. Learn more about Rails Autoscale because Adam shares everything it does, the problem it solves, and when you should start using it.
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In this episode I talk with Drew Bragg about the Sin City Ruby conference, deciding what to spend your learning time on, Drew's time at Within3, missing objects, conceptualizing technical debt, and object-oriented principles.
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Integrate Dart Sass with the asset pipeline in Rails.
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GitHub Action to bump multiple dependencies with dependabot in a single pull request.
📢 Junior Spotlight: Felipe Vogel
I'm Felipe, a self-taught Rubyist looking for my first Rails job. Since summer 2020 I've been learning how to build maintainable, modern Rails apps while working full-time in tech support. I'm a second-career developer / recovering high school English teacher. You can see my resume here, and my portfolio here.
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