• Editor's note: This week's issue is shorter as the editor was at Google I/O. Back to full speed next week.
• Ruby 3.5: Tenderlove shows work on slashing object-allocation costs in Ruby 3.5, up to 6× faster for keyword-heavy constructors.
• Microsoft: Unveiled a new Postgres extension for VS Code with IntelliSense completion, GitHub Copilot integration, and more.
• Ruby Central: Shared monthly update focusing on RubyKaigi and RubyGems updates.
• Solidus: Rails ecommerce framework has been around for a decade and reached 3 million downloads.
• Bundler 4: Initial roadmap expected to land later this year.
• Rails World: Shared final speaker lineup.
• Managing Postgres: Honeybadger's article on managing Postgres table partitioning in Ruby with a gem.
• Functional Ruby: 20-minute talk from Functional Conf exploring Ruby from a functional programming perspective.
• Other articles: Various Ruby-related articles on getting composite keys to work with Rails view helpers, Rails controller callback order with concerns, getting answers from a big PDF with RubyLLM, and adding 'Sign in with Apple' to Rails apps.
• Code & Tools: Anthropic's Claude 4 expected to be available soon. Rage 1.16 with a new WebSocket protocol, ViewComponent 3.23, Rabarber 5.0, ruby-git 3.1, RDoc 6.14, Meilisearch Rails 0.16, and MockRedis 0.50.
• Did You Know: Ruby Weekly started in 2010 and there are other newsletters like Go Weekly, JavaScript Weekly, React Status, Node Weekly, Frontend Focus, and Postgres Weekly, with their latest issues shared. Postgres Weekly's latest issue came out just a couple of hours ago.