James Adam @james@ruby.social

Hey folks! Welcome to ruby.social! 🎉

I'm hoping this will become a good, friendly community for Ruby-folks to chat and discover new friends. But for that to happen, you need to sign up!

https://ruby.social -- all are welcome

I have turned on account moderation. I actually turned it on a few weeks ago, but then turned it off during #railsconf to make it easier for attendees to join.

However, less than a day later, an account appeared posting links which clearly broke the instance rules, so it's back to moderation again.

It's not actually that much trouble to approve the accounts, and it's vastly preferable to having to suspend abusive ones, so overall I think this was the right choice.

Anyway! Ruby!

I'm quite enjoying this year's remote version of #RailsConf - clever use of Discord gives a good sense of community even with most of the talks being pre-recorded.

https://railsconf.org

Anyone else here "attending"? #rails

I'm considering switching the signup process on this instance to being directly moderated, instead of fully open; around 30% of the signups at the moment are companies that only want to put their links online.

Does anyone have any concerns about this?

Don't cache ActiveRecord objects: https://interblah.net/don-t-cache-activerecord-objects

Furthermore, it's recommended that you install cypress via npm, vendoring it in each project.

Got ten projects? Kiss 7GB of disk space goodbye.

I know that efficient disk space hasn't always been a top priority in the NPM world, but still, yeesh...

I'm a big believer in system tests, and I front-end developers I know really like Cypress, so this will be interesting to explore: https://gilesbowkett.com/blog/2020/10/09/cypress-rails-circle/

What's crazy about Cypress, though, is that the Cypress app is 704MB. That's one hell of a development dependency.

I agree with much of this article: https://www.rubypigeon.com/posts/my-beef-with-rubocop/

#ruby #rubocop #code

Bonus mention of a great @tekin presentation too.

https://interblah.net/two-thoughts-about-maintainable-software - in which I take inspiration from @robbyrussell's latest podcast episode for a couple of thoughts about maintainable software

#ruby #maintanable

How much more of my disk space must I sacrifice to `node_modules`? All of it? :(

Thanks to new Patreon donor and member @fearoffish! Much appreciated! 🎉

(And if anyone else wants to help keep the lights on here: https://patreon.com/rubysocial)

TFW when _thought_ you'd pushed your branch and were waiting for the build results, only to realise after 30 minutes... you didn't.

I think I found my first really strong candidate for a gem to implemented using refinements: https://github.com/egonSchiele/contracts.ruby

(see https://github.com/egonSchiele/contracts.ruby/issues/292)

Hey folks,

The ruby.social domain name is up for renewal soon, and looking at the overall expenses of running this instance, we could _really_ use a few more supporters on Patreon to help cover costs.

If you can spare a couple of bucks, it'd be really helpful!

https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=13237635

Super special thanks to the current patrons: @sidekiq @shanecav @passthejoe @MikeG1 and super-supporter @honeybadger

🎉

LRUG tonight! 6:20pm London time, registration details at https://lrug.org. See you there?