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Ross Kaffenberger @rossta
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Ross Kaffenberger
@rossta
16 Jul 2024
I’ve started something new: Joy of Rails. It's my take on sharing what I love about building web apps with Ruby on Rails. As an early hint of what’s to come, I used Hotwire to drop a color scheme previewer into my latest article. Check it out. joyofrails.com/articles/cust…

Custom Color Schemes with Ruby on Rails

You can edit the color scheme of this website right in content of this blog post. Play with the controls while we highlight the benefits of Rails, Hotwire, and CSS variables.

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One thing I loved about DarkSky is to get an idea of what the weather is usually like in some location at a given time of year. What’s a good app for that these days?
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What a game. Whatever happens in the second half, it has been awesome to see my hometown Washington Commanders good at football again. #Commanders #Lions
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In case you missed it, here’s my recent article where you get to play with an interactive demo to visualize how Ruby’s Enumerator::Lazy helps avoid unnecessary work
Ross Kaffenberger
@rossta
8 Jan 2025
I made a thing to help you visualize how Ruby’s Lazy Enumerator works, so your code can do less work. joyofrails.com/articles/simp…
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I made a thing to help you visualize how Ruby’s Lazy Enumerator works, so your code can do less work. joyofrails.com/articles/simp…

A simple trick to understand Ruby’s lazy enumerator

Where you get to play with an interactive demo to visualize how Enumerator::Lazy helps avoid unnecessary work

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Nick Pezza@pezza_n
8 Jan 2025
Welp the day has come that the company I worked for got sunset so I am on the hunt for a new job. If anyone happens to know of any great Rails shops(that use turbo 🤞) feel free to reach out! DMs are open. RTs for reach appreciated.
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A few seasons in and my main observation is pretty much everyone in The Sopranos is a horrible person.
Ross Kaffenberger
@rossta
29 Nov 2024
To give you an idea of how quick I am to adopt new tech tools, I have started watching The Sopranos
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Noah was brilliant and kind, a talented programmer, an even better person. He left an indelible mark on the Ruby community. I feel privileged to have met Noah and I will miss him dearly. My heart goes out to his family.
Nate Berkopec
@nateberkopec
26 Dec 2024
Noah Gibbs (@codefolio) has passed away. His big dream in life was to help build the Ruby community up. He wanted to be like the folks who worked to create the railroads during the industrial revolution. He thought Ruby was the best way to do (fill in the blank) and he wanted to share his knowledge as widely as possible. His kindness and generosity extended into every corner of his life. Noah's passing was sudden and very fast. He did not suffer. He is survived by his wife and children.
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All Hans really wanted was to be sitting on a beach, earning 20%
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100% I say both “sequel” and “S-Q-L”. Context matters.
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Currently working on an in-browser demo to help visualize the difference between eager and lazy enumeration in Ruby

ALT GIF visualizing how Ruby’s eager enumeration might look for a chain of method calls

ALT GIF visualizing how Ruby’s lazy enumeration might look for a chain of method calls
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Rails really is the One-Person Framework
Nadia Odunayo’s Brighton Ruby talk "Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team" is #1 on Hacker News

ALT Nadia Odunayo’s Brighton Ruby talk "Getting to Two Million Users as a One Woman Dev Team" is #1 on Hacker News
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And today, @nodunayo is #1 on HN for her Brighton Ruby @thestorygraph talk. Congrats, Nadia for your software, business, and speaking accomplishments!
Ross Kaffenberger
@rossta
17 Dec 2024
Great to see @adrienpoly and @marcoroth_ with Ruby Video trending on trending on HN today after the Ruby Concurrency talk by @jpcamara hit the top spot yesterday. Ruby’s having a good run right now and it’s not even Christmas yet!
Ruby Video trending on HN

ALT Ruby Video trending on HN

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Great to see @adrienpoly and @marcoroth_ with Ruby Video trending on trending on HN today after the Ruby Concurrency talk by @jpcamara hit the top spot yesterday. Ruby’s having a good run right now and it’s not even Christmas yet!
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ALT Ruby Video trending on HN

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Powered by Rails and Hotwire! github.com/rubyapi/rubyapi

GitHub - rubyapi/rubyapi: Ruby API makes it easy and fast to search or browse the Ruby language API...

Ruby API makes it easy and fast to search or browse the Ruby language API docs - rubyapi/rubyapi

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Ross Kaffenberger
@rossta
14 Dec 2024
The new Ruby docs are looking great. The search feature is fast. New experimental features appear to be in the works too, like type signatures and runnable code examples. Awesome stuff!
Ruby Enumerator docs screenshot

ALT Ruby Enumerator docs screenshot
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The new Ruby docs are looking great. The search feature is fast. New experimental features appear to be in the works too, like type signatures and runnable code examples. Awesome stuff!
Ruby Enumerator docs screenshot

ALT Ruby Enumerator docs screenshot

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Made some nice improvements to the Lighthouse score for the Joy of Rails homepage today. Biggest different was optimizing the article illustrations.
Lighthouse score for Joy of Rails homepage BEFORE improvements: Performance: 79 Accessibility: 82 Best Practices: 96 SEO: 83

ALT Lighthouse score for Joy of Rails homepage BEFORE improvements: Performance: 79 Accessibility: 82 Best Practices: 96 SEO: 83

Lighthouse score for Joy of Rails homepage AFTER improvements: Performance: 100 Accessibility: 88 Best Practices: 96 SEO: 100

ALT Lighthouse score for Joy of Rails homepage AFTER improvements: Performance: 100 Accessibility: 88 Best Practices: 96 SEO: 100

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I love Ruby so much that I write my HTML in Ruby. I’ve got nothing against ERb, but after a year of writing Phlex components, I’m not looking back.
Example Phlex component in Ruby: render CodeBlock::Body.new(data: {controller: "snippet-editor"}) do div(class: "grid-stack") do render CodeBlock::Code.new(source, language: language, data: {snippet_editor_target: "source"}) label(class: "sr-only", for: "snippet[source]") { "Source" } div(class: "code-editor autogrow-wrapper") do textarea( name: "snippet[source]", data: {snippet_editor_target: "textarea"} ) { source } end end end end

ALT Example Phlex component in Ruby: render CodeBlock::Body.new(data: {controller: "snippet-editor"}) do div(class: "grid-stack") do render CodeBlock::Code.new(source, language: language, data: {snippet_editor_target: "source"}) label(class: "sr-only", for: "snippet[source]") { "Source" } div(class: "code-editor autogrow-wrapper") do textarea( name: "snippet[source]", data: {snippet_editor_target: "textarea"} ) { source } end end end end

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It’s such a simple thing, but I love that Ruby treats the backslash character as a line continuation, similar to a shell. I often use it to omit parens and group keyword arguments on new line.
Ruby code: def self.from(sitepress_resource) Resource.new \ request_path: sitepress_resource.request_path, body: sitepress_resource.body, title: sitepress_resource.data.title, description: sitepress_resource.data.description, image: sitepress_resource.data.image, # ...

ALT Ruby code: def self.from(sitepress_resource) Resource.new \ request_path: sitepress_resource.request_path, body: sitepress_resource.body, title: sitepress_resource.data.title, description: sitepress_resource.data.description, image: sitepress_resource.data.image, # ...
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Let’s see how Solid Cable on SQLite holds up. I spent this week building realtime polls. I embedded the first one in my last article (unfortunately after the publish date). joyofrails.com/articles/what…
Screenshot of an embedded poll about SQLite on Rails

ALT Screenshot of an embedded poll about SQLite on Rails
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