June 1, 2021

The Monthly Monitor: Winning starts with beginning.

Hey Friends,

A busy month for me at work. Not much to share. Started learning docker this month.

Dev Joke

Developer project roadmap

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Reading/watching list

• Ruby 3.1 adds Array#intersect?
• Software Top 40 - Playlist for software developers, ranking the most productive songs based on coding productivity data

Podcast

• Frontend Bundlers & Snowpacker with Konnor Rogers

Rails changelog

• Rails 7 displays nice help message if rails new is called without a path
• Rails 7 adds support for .asc.nulls_first for all databases
• Rails 7 clean-up and add more support to Arel::Visitors::Dot
• Rails 7 add PostgreSQL support for timestamp with time zone
• Rails 7 adds support for require-trusted-types-for and trusted-types headers
• Rails 7 adds from: option to ActiveSupport::TestCase#assert_no_changes
• Rails 7 allows to purge an attachment when record is not persisted for has_one_attached
• [Perf Improvement] Cache and re-use generated attibute methods
• [Perf Improvement] Deprecate ActiveSupport::SafeBuffer's incorrect implicit conversion of objects into string
• [Improvement] Encapsulate "details" into TemplateDetails

My Open-source libraries/contributions

• Rails Contribution - Fixes ActiveStorage#has_many_attached re-creating destroyed attachment - Allows ActiveStorage multiple attach within transaction
• Boring Generators - Update stripe generator to use stripe V3 flow - Fixes many generators which install ruby gems to not hardcode gem version - Adds stimulus install generator - Adds rails-admin generator - Add paper trail generator

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