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💎 Ruby Radar #41 - Spring Forward

💎 Ruby Radar #41 - Spring Forward

March 13, 2022

Welcome to the 41st edition of Ruby Radar! Unless you're Andrew in Arizona, you probably experienced Daylight saving time last night. We hope everyone has any easy adjustment to the time change!

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📝 Escaping the traditional Rails form

There's been a pattern I've seen creeping in Rails apps. The pattern is that there are cases where someone needs to "escape" a form and provide a different action.

📝 Distributed Systems with Rails

How to build distributed systems with Ruby on Rails.

🎙 Colleen Schnettler of Hammerstone and Simple File Upload — www.codewithjason.com

In this episode, Colleen Schnettler and I discuss her entrepreneurial ventures including Simple File Upload and Hammerstone, freelancing, and our strategies and goals for content creation.

🎙The Ruby on Rails Podcast Episode 408: Functionally Fit with Mike Coutermarsh — www.therubyonrailspodcast.com

Returning after seven years and back by popular demand, Mike Coutermarsh is a software engineer at PlanetScale, where he’s building a serverless relational database. After catching up and sharing their adoration of Flash, Brittany and Mike nerd out on home fitness: equipment, routines and goals.

Store a PDF generated on your server via ActiveStorage easily. I hadn't seen a simple example of this while I was looking for it yesterday so thought I'd share. Also if your pdf generation relies on any other records being created in the request
— Stephen Swann (@MrStephenSwann)
9:17 PM • Mar 11, 2022

📢 Sema - Looking for recommendations of Ruby best practices

Sema is building a free code review tool. It includes a best practice library to make code reviews more complete. We are looking for suggestions on your favorite Ruby best practice guides to include. The link includes an example of what we’ve built for JavaScript so far. If you have recommendations, will you share them at [email protected]? Thank you. SPONSORED

N+1s occur often with ActiveRecord when working with scopes (and `some_association.where`). `where` breaks eager loading. Sometimes, checking if the association is `loaded?` and providing a pure-Ruby way to get the subset you want is much faster than the N+1.
— Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec)
8:02 PM • Mar 8, 2022