Happy Wednesday! Here is issue #120 of our newsletter, which offers news and the best tools for your current or future Rails projects… 1. 🚀 in a previous article, Aysan wrote about accessibility testing in Rails applications using your test suite to ensure that your application is accessible to all users. In a follow-up article about WAVE, the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool, Juan dives deeper into evaluating your web application regardless of whether you have a test suite or a Rails application. The tool can help you test the accessibility of your web application regardless of the technology stack you are using. Check it out! 2. 🐦 In our newest article on the OmbuLabs Blog: Ernesto updates us on our future focus for Our Social Media Presence. While we bid farewell to Twitter/X, we will remain active in the community by sharing our content. Follow OmbuLabs, FastRuby.io, and UpgradeJS on Mastodon and LinkedIn for all the latest updates. 3. 💎 On February 11, 2025, the JRuby team announced the release of JRuby 9.4.12.0, aiming for Ruby 3.1 compatibility. The update addresses a critical concurrency issue in Class#subclasses and upgrades jar-dependencies to version 0.5.4. It also resolves parsing problems with Maven output on Java 9 and later. The release includes fixes for four issues and pull requests. 🚀 FastRuby.io Makes Your Rails Upgrade Delightfully Boring FastRuby.io’s monthly maintenance services keep security and uptime high & costs low. The team behind RailsBump.org offers gradual, 0-downtime upgrades — making technical debt remediation feel delightfully boring. 🌳 Bonsai plans start at $4,000/month. Move up or down a plan level as needed. Which plan is right for you? 4. 🦄 In his February 9, 2025, post "Guardrails Are Not Code Smells," Jean Boussier defends safeguards in Ruby apps, arguing they enhance stability rather than indicate bad design. He critiques MaxRequests in unicorn-worker-killer for masking memory leaks but supports MaxMemory as a proactive way to prevent system failures. Boussier emphasizes that well-placed guardrails improve reliability and shouldn’t be dismissed as code smells. 5. 📺 In the video Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee, Mike discusses his experience transitioning from Redis to SQLite for specific use cases. He highlights SQLite’s benefits, such as its simplicity, reliability, and ease of deployment, which makes it a compelling alternative to Redis in certain scenarios. He also addresses potential challenges and considerations when making this switch, providing valuable insights for developers contemplating a similar move. 👀 Check out our other articles on: Performance | Upgrades | Best Practices | Tech Debt Bookmark them, share them, or save them. We hope you found these links helpful 😉 Know anyone who would love to get this newsletter? Tell them to subscribe to the Rails Upgrade News newsletter… Best, The FastRuby.io Team |
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