November 4, 2021

The Monthly Monitor: Happy Diwali 🪔

Hi Friends,

Wish you all a very happy and safe Diwali 🪔.

This past few months I have been super busy helping my team at AngelList to prepare and launch our product: AngelList Stack

AngelList Stack offers a broad variety of products including Incorporation, Banking, Equity Management, Fundraising, and Hiring. This helps founders launch and manage companies effortlessly.

Dev Joke

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Reading/watching list

• Release: Stimulus 3
• Easily Upgrade Your Rails Applications With next_rails
• A Sneak Peek of Ruby's New Debugger!
• Generate Friendlier UUID URLs in Ruby
• 7 Tips & tricks to make your console.log() output stand out
• AngelList returns to its founder-focused roots, with a twist

Rails changelog

• Rails 7 adds rollup as JavaScript option
• Rails 7 allow three javascript options to manage JS
• Rails 7 adds --css option to the Rails app generator
• Rails 7 introduces ActiveModel::API
• Rails 7 removes some default initializers
• Rails 7 fixes ActionText extra trix content wrapper
• Rails 7 now allows permitting numeric params
• Rails 7 adds Bootstrap and Bulma to the CSS processors
• Rails 7 PostgreSQL support custom enum types
• Rails 7 Active Storage deprecate invalid default content types
• Rails 7 allows configuring Postgres password through the socket URL
• Rails 7 supports svg unpaired tags for tag helper
• Rails 7 Allow link_to helper to infer link name from Model#to_s when it is used with a single argument
• Rails 7 don't require role when passing shard to connected_to
• Rails 7 adds option to lazily load the schema cache on the connection
• Rails 7 automatically set timestamps on record creation during bulk insert/upsert
• Rails 7 adds ActiveRecord::Base.prohibit_shard_swapping
• Rails 7 adds support for setting the filename of the schema or structure dump in the database config

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