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How fast is Ruby 2.5, 2.6 and 2.6 –jit in generating Prawn PDFs

Takashi Kokubun (known as k0kubun), a Ruby JIT committer, asked the community for more benchmarks on upcoming Ruby 2.6 JIT. I put together one for generating PDF documents with InvoicePrinter (based on Prawn).

Taking Stimulus.js for a ride

Stimulus.js is one of the new front-end framework on the market. It’s goal is to be a modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have, which makes it ideal as an alternative to jQuery or framework-less JavaScript. Let’s see how it feels to replace VanillaJS with Stimulus.js on one concrete example.

Building auto login for fast Rails development with Sorcery

Login as various users during development can become pretty annoying especially since it’s very difficult to remember all of the passwords across users or apps. If your app authentication happen to be built with Sorcery here’s is a very easy and straightforward way how to implement auto login.

Creating accessible visual select in pure JavaScript without dependencies

How to create a visually more appealing select in pure JavaScript without any framework.

Debugging silently failing compilation aka Webpacker can’t find application.js in public/packs/manifest.json

Webpacker can pretend everything went smooth with the compilation… until one loads a page with javascript_pack_tag helper.

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