The Monthly Monitor: As you think, so shall you become.

Hola!

Dev Joke

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Best code comment:

// 
// Dear maintainer:
// 
// Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine,
// and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
// please increment the following counter as a warning
// to the next guy:
// 
// total_hours_wasted_here = 42
// 

My blogs

• Introducing Boring Generators. Boring Generators is a gem which aims to reduce the time spent on configuration and make development faster by delegating boring setups to the gem.
• Tailwind CSS + Rails via webpack. Installation of the Tailwind CSS is pretty simple now :P

Reading/watching list

• Ruby 2.7.2 Released
• Have you heard it yet? The default branch for newly-created repositories on GitHub will be called main and not master
• What could be better than Airbnb building a library for visualization components? Introducing visx from Airbnb
• The convergence of Ruby on Rails and #AppSec
• Amazing Find: You can use GitHub workflow to update the readme for listing the latest blog you wrote on the GitHub profile repository. Read more about blog-post-workflow.
• Learn SQL by actually writing SQL code
• How to Talk to Users?

Rails changelog

• Rails 6.1 adds support for PostgreSQL interval data type with conversion to ActiveSupport::Duration
• Locate fill_in_rich_text_area by <label> text
• Recover nano precision when serializing Time, TimeWithZone and DateTime objects.
• Rails 6.1 optimize ActiveRecord::Relation#include? on an unloaded relation
• Rails 6.1 return rows affected from batched update_all and delete_all
• Rails 6.1 support passing record to uniqueness validator :conditions

validates_uniqueness_of :title, conditions: ->(article) { ... }

• Rails 6.1 adds support for exclusive no-store Cache-Control header.
• Rails 6.1 now will list all the pending migration name in the UI
• Rails 6.1 adds connecting_to method.

My Open-source libraries/contributions.

• Open sourced a Gatsby template to easily write simple and nice blogs called gatsby-nice-blog. Live Demo
• Open source a gem called boring_generators. You can read more about it here

Watching/Reading/Reviews

• Busy month. Haven’t found time to read/watch something new.

Happy coding folks. You can reach out to me twitter for anything and I’ll be happy to chat. Don’t hesitate.