~rubyweekly | Issue 747 - Releases, releases, and more releases (11)

🤖 Raif: An AI Framework in a Rails Engine — There are many Ruby libraries for interacting with LLMs and AI APIs now, but Raif goes a step further with a web-based admin interface and some abstractions around tasks, conversations, creating agents, and embedding generation that integrate into Rails apps in an idiomatic way.

Ruby 3.5.0 Preview 1 Released — Christmas Day may be eight months away, but it’s time to start counting the days to Ruby 3.5’s eventual release with this initial preview version. The updates are far less significant than for 3.4 so far, but if you’re a library developer, it’s worth putting it through its paces early.

🚀 FastRuby.io Makes Your Rails Upgrade Delightfully Boring with Bonsai — FastRuby.io’s monthly maintenance service keeps uptime high and costs low (starting at $4,000/month). The team behind next_rails offers Bonsai for gradual, 0-downtime upgrades — making upgrading Ruby and Rails feel delightfully boring.

JRuby 10.0 Released — Before Easter, we mentioned the imminent release of JRuby 10, the latest Ruby 3.4-compatible version of the high performance JVM-based Ruby implementation which Charles Oliver Nutter explained in depth here. It’s now out, for real, and marks a huge leap forward for the project.

mruby 3.4.0 Released — mruby began life about ten years ago as an alternative lightweight standards-compliant Ruby implementation (led by Matz himself) with a focus on being both small and embeddable. v3.4 adds private and protected support and several new hooks.

Extracting Deprecation Warnings from Rails' Source Code — While FastRuby does this to improve their Rails upgrade services, you could use similar techniques for all sorts of Ruby source processing shenanigans.

Because Reading Error Logs Is Not a Hobby — When *$!% breaks, you want to quickly understand and fix it—not sift through logs for the next hour. Learn how Honeybadger can help →

TableTennis: Print Stylish Tables at the Terminal — A Ruby library for printing tabular data in the terminal that includes theming (e.g. light or dark), automatic layout, automatic formatting of dates and numbers, coloring for numeric values, and more.

Introducing Herb: A New HTML-Aware ERB Parser for Smarter Developer Tooling — Herb was created to help view-based tooling catch up with the rest of the Rails tooling stack. It’s written in C, so it’s suitable for real-time development, and it comes with a slick playground so you can see it in action.

Errbit: A Self Hosted Error Catcher — If you want to catch and manage errors from production apps in a structured way, this is for you. It’s compatible with the Airbrake API so you can use the existing airbrake gem with it.

☢️ Tech Debt, Performance or Dev Process Problems in Your App? — Our Application Assessment service can help you figure out how to deal with them.