The Monthly Monitor: Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

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Dev Joke

Question: What do computers eat for a snack?
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Answer: Microchips!

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My blogs

• Bootstrap + Rails via webpack

Reading/watching list

• Rails 6.1 RC1: Horizontal Sharding, Multi-DB Improvements, Strict Loading, Destroy Associations in Background, Error Objects, and more!. Felt awesome when I came to know I did 40 contributions to Rails 6.1 🎉
• How Gratitude can make you a better developer
• [PODCAST]John Chambers – Pattern Matching, Playbooks, and Winning Product Categories
• [PODCAST]Anu Hariharan – Lessons in Growth Investing
• Currying in JS using Ramda.js. Done. Currying: A Ruby approach. Interesting Read.
• The Algorithms - Ruby
• TypeScript 4.1 RC Release.
• A Virtual Machine for Ruby on Rails Core Development. Never used it while contributing.

Rails changelog

• Rails 6.1 adds where.associated to check association presence
• Adds configuration(config.active_record.action_on_strict_loading_violation) to log or raise a error for association with strict_loading
• Add connected_to_many API
• Pass in base instead of base_class to Error.human_attribute_name
• Adds Railtie#server hook called when Rails starts a server
• Allow ActionDispatch::HostAuthorization to exclude specific requests
• Rails 6.1 would raise error if camelcased names are passed to the generator
• Don’t over protect the MySQL users on insert_all
• Rails 6.1 ensures MemoryStore disables compression by default
• Rails 500 messages now are properly formatted and displayed in browser
• Rails 6.1 support delegators in query Predicate building
• Implement strict_loading on ActiveStorage associations
• Rails 6.1 adds redirect_back_or_to(fallback_location, **)

My Open-source libraries/contributions

• Added test cases for Action Mailbox generator
• Add favicon generator
• Add GraphQL generator

Watching/Reading/Reviews

• I am watching Fairy Tail

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