December 30, 2020

The Monthly Monitor: Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. - Steve Jobs

Hey friends!

We made it! 2020 is over! This is last issue of the year I hope everyone stays happy and healthy. Let’s go!

Dev Joke

My blogs

• Automate your workflow using GitHub Actions with Rails
• boring_generators Gem - 10x Development - Speed-Up Your Coding By Automating and Generating Boring Setups

Reading/watching list

• Some good news in 2020. Ruby 3 is released - The list of Ruby 3 features
• Rails 6.1 Release
• Introducing Hotwire. An alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript.
• GraphQL is gaining a lot of attention and one of the main challenge for any legacy project is adoption of GraphQL. Read some how to migrate from REST to GraphQL.
• All ruby books @PlanetRuby
• GraphQL improving latency with @defer and @stream directives. Improvements come with the cost of multiple round-trips and increased load on server. Feature is in Stage 2 proposal.

Rails changelog

• Rails 6.1 adds ActiveRecord::FinderMethods#sole and #find_sole_by
• Rails 6.1 supports blob column type in the database migration
• Rails 6.1 changes the default queue name for all internal Active Job to default
• Rails 6.1 adds option for default_scope to run on all queries
• Rails 6.1 adds config.action_view.preload_links_header option
• Rails 6.1 allows Rails.benchmark to be called from anywhere to measure and log spped of code
• Rails 6.1 adds ActiveSupport::Cache::RedisCacheStore#info
• Rails 6.1 now by default generates non-remote forms for form_with FormBuilder

My Open-source libraries/contributions

• Rails open-source contribution

  • Adds the missing spec for Action Text installer warning for incomplete webpacker configuration
  • Fixes the route table CSS for dark mode
  • Fixes the copy-paste typo in configuration guide for default job queue changes
  • Fixes typos in Autoloading (Zeitwerk Mode) Guide

• Boring Generator contributions

  • Adds the devise install generator
  • Adds simple_form install generator
  • Add GraphQL generator
  • Fixes failing specs and accommodate Tailwind 2.0 changes

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