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Emmanuel Hayford

13 days

I've got some capacity to take on a new Rails project. Very comfortable with the backend and can work with the whole stack on a team (or without). Rails dev since 2014. DMs open. RTs appreciated. ❤️

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

1 year

@manuel_frigerio What if they use Gitlab? Or their contributions are not public? Either way, contribution graphs mean nothing.

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2 years

Rails 7.1 will combine checks for the development and test environments. 🔥

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2 years

Rails 7.1 will give you a lot of possibilities: Active Record added an API for general async queries. Soon, you’ll be able to run aggregates and `find_by_sql` asynchronously. So you can do stuff like:

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10 months

Now that Rails 7.1 Beta 1 is out, I want to let you know that you can now write your SQL SELECT fields as hashes. The following do the same thing.

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1 year

For a dead framework, I think we're doing terrific!

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1 year

If you use Sidekiq directly in your Rails app, you have a `push_bulk` method to push gazillions of jobs to Redis to cut down on the Redis round-trip latency. Rails 7.1 brings this feature to Active Job through a new `perform_all_later` method.

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Emmanuel Hayford

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2 years

Rails logs files are unchecked: they can grow to whatever size imaginable. Not anymore, there's a new config option in Rails to keep log files from taking over disk space!

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9 months

You know those moments when you create a new app, only to realise you wanted to start with PostgreSQL but Rails by default gave you SQLite? Here's a command to switch your database without having to touch a single file. Pass --force to skip prompts.

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Emmanuel Hayford

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8 months

I'm available for work as a Ruby on Rails developer. I know Rails pretty well. CV upon request. Let me know if you or your team needs a hand. RTs appreciated 😀

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Emmanuel Hayford

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1 year

The best year to take Ruby on Rails seriously was 2004, the second best year is 2023!

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@siaw23

10 months

With more developers opting for SQLite on production servers, Rails is making incremental improvements to the SQLite3 Adapter. Find out more in this edition of This Week In Rails. 📰

SQLite3 adapter now handles default functions with concatenation an...

Default retry strategy uses polynomial backoff instead of exponential backoff This modifies the wait option's name to provide a more explicit indication that jobs will undergo retry attempts using...

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

Refinements in Ruby are powerful. Here's an example illustrating Ruby's dynamism. You can conditionally break out of a "refinement" with the `super` keyword. This means more control over when and how you want to manipulate core classes.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

9 months

BTW @rails has a YouTube channel, this is where #RailsWorld and other official Rails content will be posted. Subscribing now would be a good idea:

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails scales from HELLO WORLD to IPO. Learn just what you need to get started, then keep leveling up as you go. GitHub: https://github.com/rails/rails Documentation: https://rubyonrails.org/

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

Did you know that in Ruby you can explicitly instruct a method not to take keyword arguments? Otherwise the method sucks up the keywords in the rest argument.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

1 year

For the RDBMSes that support them, Rails now allows you to pass options to `EXPLAIN`. ❤️

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7 months

I'm working with the Rails Foundation to share Ruby on Rails tips with you officially. In a few days, you'll start getting weekly Rails tips on the Foundation's official X and LinkedIn accounts. Follow Rails @rails here on X and also on LinkedIn.

Ruby on Rails - The Rails Foundation | LinkedIn

Ruby on Rails - The Rails Foundation | 7,241 followers on LinkedIn. Helping the Ruby on Rails ecosystem grow and prosper | The Rails Foundation is a non-profit foundation set up to improve the...

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

1 year

Hi. My name is Emmanuel. I’m a Rails developer. 👋🏾

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

1 year

Started a new Ruby and Rails podcast @railschangelog . I intend to publish weekly or biweekly. Subs, RTs, and shares are appreciated! ❤️ I'm new to this, if you have ideas, suggestions or want to guest host, hit me up. First episode coming next week.

The Rails Changelog

Stay in the loop with development news around Ruby on Rails and Ruby. Hosted by Emmanuel Hayford.

www.railschangelog.com

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

Ruby 3.2 in three days.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

Say you have a humongous app that could have several routes, some of which are unused but you have no quick way of checking which routes are unused--well, Rails has your back. You can now find and delete dead code around these unused routes and speed up boot time too. 🚀

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

10 months

Rails 7.1.0.beta1 is imminent. For a brief description of some notable features, I wrote 3 blog posts to give you an idea of the treats we'll be getting: An Overview Of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part I An Overview Of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part II An Overview Of Ruby on

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10 months

Some API access tokens are ephemeral, this means we need to keep track of when these tokens expire to invalidate a cache. Rails 7.1 makes this process a breeze. Here's how you can invalidate a cache and fetch a new token at the same time.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

TIL that in Rails 7, when you define a to_s in your model you can pass a single argument to link_to. Thanks to @olivierlacan . 🎉

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

rvm install 3.2.0

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2 years

A new (>= Rails 6) convenient addition to Rails Rake tasks that loads seeds without rebuilding the database structure.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

1.27 million requests per second! Let that sink in. 🤯 #shopify @ShopifyEng

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

10 months

The `enum` method in Rails is getting a lot of attention in Rails 7.1. Rails now allows you to validate Enums. Here's how it looks in practice:

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

9 months

2 decades! Wow! Rails is here to stay! #RailsWorld

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

9 months

Is it just me, or have there been a resurgence of dormant Ruby/Rails meetups/conferences (like Tropical Ruby, RubyFuza, etc) in the past year or so, accompanied by the emergence of new ones? It's almost as if the Ruby community is experiencing a fresh wave of enthusiasm.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

These two are equivalent but I've been doing the longer version only until recently. 🤦🏾‍♂️ BTW you'd think "rails r" would be short for "rails routes" -- it's short for "rails runner". Why?! When was the last time you did "rails runner"?

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

10 months

It's mind-boggling to think that in 2023 there are full-grown developers who'd rather spend hours bickering over tools. This is software craftsmanship, we pick and drop tools along the way. It's not like you'll see two carpenters quibbling over what brand of nail to use to the

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

5 months

Watch this excellent talk on Git by @chacon , I guarantee you'll learn at least 3 new useful things.

So You Think You Know Git - FOSDEM 2024

Scott Chacon's FOSDEM 2024 talk on Git Tips and Tricks.Scott talks about:00:00 - Introduction01:06 - About Me (well, Scott Chacon)02:36 - How Well Do You Kno...

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

9 months

In Rails, you no longer need to call .new on a class with dom_id. Allowing dom_id to accept a Ruby class instead of an instance streamlines its behaviour to match dom_class. This conserves memory as Ruby avoids creating a full object with all its associated callbacks.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

In the last few months, I've seen an uptick in the number of Ruby content creators on Twitter, more people paying more attention to entry-level engineers, and extra efforts in making the Ruby community more open. These genuinely make me happy, and I hope it stays this way.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

11 months

In this episode of the @railschangelog , @dhh and I got to discuss a lot. Among what we covered are: Kamal Rails 8 Authentication in Rails The Rails Foundation & #RailsWorld On Writing Software Well Delegated Types, and more! Listen

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Emmanuel Hayford

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5 months

If you're a Rubyist, did you know about the Ruby Association, and do you know there's an official certification for Ruby? Taking these exams sounds fun, for me it's a way to support the association and I feel we should draw awareness to it.

Ruby Association Certified Ruby Programmer Examination

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

6 months

I wrote a This Week In Rails issue with updates about Ruby on Rails on rails. How about that? 😎

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

1 year

Look what I got from @andycroll ❤️

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

One of my favourite features of modern Ruby is the `...` syntax for delegation or argument forwarding. It's elegant and saves some keystrokes.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

5 months

Is it just me or people are starting to appreciate Rails more? Glad to be witnessing this.

Jeremy @ Caley.io

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I’m falling in love with @rails After 10 years working with @reactjs and the @JavaScript ecosystem it really feels like a breath of fresh air 🚀

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Emmanuel Hayford

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1 year

The "Rails 7.1 Features" series has come to a close, showcasing numerous improvements and exciting features. A sincere "thank you" to all the contributors that made this possible. The Rails community is incredibly grateful for your efforts. ❤️

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@siaw23

8 months

When updating, deleting or reloading an Active Record object, Rails now allows you to specify columns you want to use in the generated SQL queries with query_constraints. This augments Rails' support for composite primary keys and tenant-based sharding that requires all queries

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

9 months

#RailsWorld was intense! Met many amazing people, learned a ton, and expressed gratitude in person to people whose gems or libraries I use. Thank you @rails , thank you @AmandaBPerino . Follow @railschangelog for updates...❤️

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1 year

Rails Foundation's first-ever conference... Rails World! 🌍❤️

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

10 months

Replaced my broken Intel MBP with this Apple M2. Any essential tools to install to make my transition seamless? How’s Ruby and Rails work with Sonoma?

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5 months

This week, Ruby on Rails saw 43 contributors, that's the highest I've seen! That's around 6 people per day having their code merged. Not only are more folks migrating to Rails this year, the framework itself is getting better... more fixes, enhancements, new features, etc. 🍻

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

11 months

Rails is getting a new test helper called `capture_emails`. This test helper is mostly to improve a common pattern we use in Rails with `assert_emails`.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

1 year

I'm attempting video Ruby/Rails content creation. This thing is haaaaaard. 3 hours in and I haven't finished a 1-minute-long video. 😵‍💫 ... Hopefully, I can show you something in the next 48 hours. 😆

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

What really happens when you instantiate a class in Ruby? 3 things essentially. In this snippet we implement our own version of `new` to create a new instance of the `Country` class. All this freedom for free in Ruby.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

1 year

Finally found time to install Martian Mono by @evilmartians . Looks good!

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

10 months

If you're a Rails developer (new or experienced), I highly recommend you check out @DriftingRuby . Drifting Ruby is constantly producing high-quality content around Ruby and Rails that anyone can learn from! 🤌🏾

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

9 months

When you're upgrading your apps to Rails 7.1, you might notice a deprecation warning asking you to replace to_s methods with to_fs. But why? Ruby 3.1 optimised string interpolation for some objects unless to_s is overridden and Rails wants this optimisation for you too.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

This Week In Rails is out with some great news this week.

The Rails Foundation, Stimulus Outlets API, bug fixes and lots of i...

Boa noite! This is Emmanuel, bearer of good tidings. Introducing: The Rails Foundation In case you missed it, with eight founding members, Rails has started The Rails Foundation! Together, the...

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

You use the `%i[]` syntax all the time to create an array of symbols, but what's the meaning of the 'i'? Where does it come from? The 'i' means "intern".

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Emmanuel Hayford

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7 months

Just published the last episode of @railschangelog for 2023 with Xavier Noria. Embarking on this podcasting venture has been a profoundly enlightening experience in ways I can't describe through text. ❤️ Thanks for being an integral part of this journey: @AmandaBPerino

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

1 year

Just published a new issue of This Week In Rails focusing on the ongoing work on support for Composite Primary Keys. The Asset Pipeline guides got a rewrite! Reminding you that you can subscribe to get updates like this delivered to your inbox! 📥

A week dedicated to composite primary keys 😎

Saluton! That's Esperanto for "Hello!" 😜... Emmanuel Hayford here, let's see what's new in Rails as we gear up for Composite Primary Keys (CPKs) support. But first, here's a fine opportunity for...

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

This is the last issue of This Week In Rails for 2022. Don't forget to subscribe to get Rails updates in your inbox! Huge thanks to the team: @GregMolnar , @morgoth85 and @four54 . 🙏🏾

This Year in Rails, a summary of 2022!

Hey! This is Emmanuel, Greg and Wojciech, bringing you the summary of what happened with Rails in the past year. It was a busy year with 3131 commits from 491 contributors and 31 releases! We...

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

10 months

Rails 7.1 among all the big shiny features also takes care of little pests like this one.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

Don't get me wrong, Ruby is more than friendly and readable enough but imagine waking up one day to the possibility of writing small things like this.

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

1 year

I'm a fan of "beginless" (Ruby 2.6) and endless (Ruby 2.7) Ranges. We can now finally use them in Rails's `in?` method. It's the little things 😍

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

If you want to Rubocop only changed files, usually before a commit, here's an alias that works. -> List modified files -> Exclude deleted files -> Grep *.rb files -> Pipe to Rubocop for fixing

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

1 year

Bringing you more #RailsSaaS vibes 😀

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

9 months

. @eileencodes with the closing keynote at #RailsWorld 🚀

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

1 year

Working on something and learning more about Hotwire with Rails. I keep thinking... why do people complicate their lives with extra libs? The frontend solutions Rails provides are more than enough! 😳

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

The latest issue of This Week In Rails is out! 📰

An endpoint for uptime monitors, an improved help command, etc

Halløj. It's me again, bringing you the usual goodies from Rails. Show relevant commands when calling help This pull request improves the user experience by displaying the appropriate commands for...

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

A lot of the times when you use `source_location`, all you want is to see what a method is doing.. so you get a location, navigate to the file to inspect the method. Well, you can save those trips by using `source.display` to have a peek from your terminal.

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9 months

Rails has a sandbox_by_default config option that's false by default. This is there to protect you from accidentally writing to production databases.

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8 months

tobi lutke

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8 months

Nerd BFCM stats: Shopify’s egress processed 145 billion requests on Friday. App servers handled peak of ~60 million requests per minute. Increase of 38%. Total GMV was $4.1b, up by 22% from last year. But Rails doesn't scale so what are we even doing 🤷‍♂️

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9 months

Going back to my hotel and just passed by Beurs van Berlage, took a peak, met a few people in person, a few beers… #RailsWorld

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@siaw23

7 months

Want to take a moment to publicly thank @lucianghinda . For some time now I've been observing Lucian and admire him a lot for: 1. his positive vibe and energy 2. consistent support to any Rubyist 3. encouraging Ruby content creation, etc Thank you Lucian for your work in the

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@siaw23

10 months

Building a Turbo Native app is new territory for most Rails devs. Strada coming out this year makes mobile hybrid applications even more interesting. For @railschangelog , I'll sit and talk Turbo Native with @joemasilotti at #RailsWorld . Let me know if you've got questions about

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Emmanuel Hayford

@siaw23

2 years

Anytime I mention that I’m chuffed over the upcoming release of Rails 7.1 people ask why. In a 3-part blog series, I’ll show you why. I went through every single item of every single issue in 2022 of This Week In Rails. First blog post coming on Monday.

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@siaw23

2 years

Rubocop will fix this for you, but it won't tell you why. Here's why: "Subclassing an anonymous struct creates an extra anonymous class that will never be used." -- Ruby Docs

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@siaw23

11 months

I'll be interviewing DHH for the @railschangelog podcast. What would you like me to ask him for you? Maybe you have questions about Strada, Hotwire, #RailsWorld . Let me know! 🔴

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10 months

I’ll be flying to Rails Foundation’s first ever conference in 72hrs. Stoked! #RailsWorld

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@siaw23

11 months

Just finished recording with @dhh for the @railschangelog . Stay tuned. 😀

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@siaw23

2 years

Whatever Ruby Central did, the speaker list for #RailsConf2022 looks very refreshing and diversified. Impressive work, as always.😊

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@siaw23

1 year

Ruby 2.7 goes EOL tomorrow! It served us well. Thank you, @yukihiro_matz and core. ❤️

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2 years

Needed to kill time in a train so I wrote a Ruby and Rails book recommendation by some great authors: @nusco @davetron5000 @codefolio @jeremyevans0 @sandimetz

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1 year

Wrapping up the last in my "Rails 7.1 features series" and remembered Rails devs asking around "When will Rails 7.1 be released?". You don't have to wait, you have Rails 7.1.0.alpha that you can play with now.

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@siaw23

1 year

This Week in Rails (the Rails newsletter), run by a small team of volunteers, is looking for a new logo we can print as stickers. We'd be grateful if you can or know any graphic designers who'd be willing to voluntarily create a slick logo for us. RTs appreciated. ❤️

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9 months

Just got home from #RailsWorld , I probably should write a blog post about my experience, I'll say more on @railschangelog for sure. But now I want to thank @buzzsprout for getting me there, and once again, thank you @AmandaBPerino , for everything! ❤️

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@siaw23

1 year

I just submitted a CFP to #RailsWorld 🫣

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@siaw23

2 years

In Ruby, there's `super`, quite common... but there's also `super_method`, that returns a `Method` of superclass which would be called when `super` is used or `nil` if there is no method on superclass.

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@siaw23

2 years

This Week In Rails!

An Active Record improvement, performance gains and a bugfix!

Guten Tag! Emmanuel here again, with some updates from Rails. Don't trigger after_commit :destroy callback again on destroy if record previously was destroyed The after_commit :destroy callback would...

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@siaw23

1 year

This Week In Rails is hot off the press! We have more parameter filtering and some nice improvements. Don't forget to subscribe.🗞️

Parameter filtering and an improved ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper#...

Përshëndetje! Emmanuel here with the usual stuff. filtered_path in ActionController::Instrumentation event payloads over fullpath For security reasons, some data need to be filtered before it reaches...

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1 year

In Rails, you can now ignore warnings from MySQL and PostgreSQL using error codes. 🙌🏾

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10 months

. @railschangelog is getting a significant upgrade.

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@siaw23

8 months

Aaron Patterson will be joining @railschangelog . This is huge. Got any questions? :)

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2 years

Rails 7.1 is coming.

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@siaw23

9 months

This @excid3 guy was born to cash out giant checks, no doubt! 😀

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7 months

🗞️ Just published a new issue of This Week In Rails!

Allow object_id as a column name for Active Record and a lot more!

Take Active Record affixes into account for Active Storage database models This pull request ensures that all Active Storage database-related models adhere to the ActiveRecord::Base.table_name_prefix...

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8 months

Rails now allows you to tailor YAML serialization per attribute in Rails models. You can specify permitted classes and enable unsafe loads on a per-attribute basis for more flexibility. Here's an example.

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2 years

Some of you are not on Ruby 3.1, but when you get there, know that you can do this. I believe this was premised on the fact that often times you want to create a hash with values from variables of the same name as the keys. This syntax is shorter.