Happy Wednesday! Here is issue #133 of our newsletter, which offers news and the best tools for your current or future Rails projects... 1. 🎮 Ready to test your Ruby vs. Rails skills? Amanda introduces a fun new OpenSource Discord bot, Is It Ruby or Rails?, that delivers daily puzzles to challenge your knowledge! Compete with friends, climb the leaderboard, and see if you can spot the difference. Install it now and let the games begin! 2. 🥑🚫 Stop putting AI on your avocado toast. Not every problem needs AI! Watch Drew Mabry and Ernesto Tagwerker discuss the AI hype. Before jumping on the AI bandwagon, evaluate with experts. Reach out to the company behind FastRuby.io (OmbuLabs.ai) and find out if your problem really needs a custom AI solution. 🚀 3. ⚔️ Struggling with technical debt? Explore developer-focused solutions designed to tackle debt efficiently without derailing your roadmap. Ernesto reveals how a Tech Debt Fighting Champion for Developers can revolutionize your team's workflow. Discover how AI-powered tools and proactive leadership can boost productivity and morale. Rails App Feeling Outdated? 🌳 Bonsai Keeps It Fresh Update Ruby & Rails with zero stress on a fixed price. Boost efficiency & performance with expert-led debt reduction. 🚀 4. 🔍 The JSON gem has been around forever—but its API isn’t without flaws. This blog post explores the pitfalls of the gem's API, focusing on the risks of global configurations and the importance of deprecations. Learn about safer alternatives and why these changes are essential for maintaining security and efficiency in your Ruby apps. 5. 🛠️ When problems happen in production, can your system tell you why? In this post Please Create Debuggable Systems, David makes a strong case for building software that’s easy to inspect, debug, and truly understand. Make your systems more debuggable with clear error messages and diagnostic modes, with practical tips to transform your Rails apps and Ruby tools into transparent and manageable systems. 6. 💎 Philly Ruby Meetup News! In-person events are coming back to Philly.rb. Join us for Scaling Rails the Smart Way with Carlos Palhares + Lightning talks on Tuesday, September 16, 5:30 PM EDT. We hope to see you there! 👀 Check out our other articles on: Performance | Upgrades | Best Practices | Tech Debt Bookmark them, share them, or save them for later. We hope you found these links helpful.😉 Know anyone who would love to receive this newsletter? Tell them to subscribe to the Rails Upgrade News newsletter… Best, The FastRuby.io Team |
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