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💎 Ruby Radar #60 - 🚢 Are Rubyists the Best At Shipping?

💎 Ruby Radar #60 - 🚢 Are Rubyists the Best At Shipping?

July 24, 2022

Welcome to the 60th issue of Ruby Radar!

Sorry for some clickbait in the title but this one is stuffed to the brim thanks to lots of release activity going on in the community AND RailsConf 2022 becoming public. Insert subtle plug for Andrew's talk.

Included at the end of this issue is a link to the livestream that we did together this week with the crew over on the Rubber Duck Dev Show so be sure to check that out as well!

Shoutout to everyone who shipped last week, and let's hope this week's deployments are also fruitful. 🙏

Wow... its already been 2 months since #RailsConf2022! We had over 1,610 registrations from 40 countries join us, and starting today you can relive the magic over on our YouTube channel by watching all the talks! youtube.com/playlist?list=…
— RailsConf (@railsconf)
11:03 PM • Jul 18, 2022

If you're a Rubyist who wants to "give back" by offering six 1/2 hour calls to an early (or pre-) career developer you could do worse than sign up to this new thing I made.
— Andy Croll (@andycroll)
8:32 AM • Jul 19, 2022

📝 Bridgetown 1.1 “Belmont” Has Landed

Features galore along with a website migration guide from Jekyll. And stay tuned for a server-centric follow-up release later this year.

📝 How to Take Screenshots with Ruby on Rails

We’ll show you 4 different ways to take website screenshots using Rails. Puppeteer & Goover, Cloudinary + URL2png, html2canvas and Urlbox.

🎙️ Occasional Biscuits — www.bikeshed.fm

Natural disaster movies, anyone? It's what Steph's been into, and Chris has THOUGHTS on the drilling in Armageddon.

Additionally, a chat around RuboCop RSpec rules happens, and they answer a listener's question, "how do you get acquainted with a new code base?"

🎙️ [FINALLY] Joined by Konnor Rogers — remoteruby.com

Konnor Rogers, a Developer at Microsoft known for his knowledge of all things front-end, joins the call. Konnor tells us more about a new JavaScript runtime called Bun, his go-to Vite Ruby, and using Import Maps as a start tool. The guys have some deep conversations about ESBuild, Webpack, Webpacker, Web Components, and the new Lit Web Component. And if you’re a Junior Developer, Konnor, Jason, and Andrew share some important tips that may help with your journey in finding a job.

💎 hotwired/stimulus v3.1.0 — github.com

Editor's Note There is also a new turbo beta version out in addition to this Stimulus update!