Other Ruby-related News:

• A DoS vulnerability has been found in REXML, so it's encouraged to upgrade ASAP.
• Rails core member Eileen Uchitele's Tropical.rb keynote is available on YouTube, digging into higher level ideas about Rails. 17 other talks from Tropical.rb are also available.
• Near NYC, Obie Fernandez is speaking at NYC.rb next month about Ruby's role in the growing world of AI and has written about it recently.
• The Ruby core team is working on the idea of making garbage collector routines easier to replace or enhance.
• Rails 8 adds Kamal by default.

Code & Tools:

• Pygments.rb 3.0: Ruby wrapper for Pygments syntax highlighter.
• Humanize 3.1: Converts numbers to text in 13 languages.
• Business Class 1.7: Commercial SaaS starter kit for Rails for Rails 8.
• Cyperful 0.2: Interactive system testing UI for Capybara with RSpec support.
• GraphqlDevise 1.5: GraphQL interface on top of devise_token_auth.
• Reline 0.5.7: Better, compatible readline library.
• Meilisearch Rails 0.13: Meilisearch integration for Rails.
• rspec-sidekiq 5.0: Simple testing of Sidekiq jobs.

Quick tips:

• On Twitter, Dr Nic Williams shared a tip to make systems like ChatGPT return better code by being specific in system prompts.
• To create a hash with keys as unique values and values as the number of times they appear in an array, use array.tally since Ruby 2.7, or similar code like array.each_with_object(Hash.new(0)) { |i, h| h[i] += 1 } or hash = Hash.new(0); array.each { |i| hash[i] += 1 }.
• Skim Ruby's docs from time to time to find useful shortcuts and things you may have forgotten in daily work.