Dennis Paagman

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

Hotwire Native is extremely future proof and the release of iOS 26 shows why → paagman.dev/hotwire-nati...

Tired of 'No route matches [GET] "/.well-known/appspecific/com.chrome.devtools.json"'? No more with this middleware 👉 paagman.dev/handling-chr...

No I never upload to their cloud, just copy and paste the files where I need them.

the baby is in sudo mode all the time, so it's appropriate 😂

Flameshot is pretty good, not as good though!

order_summary.rb GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

A solution in Ruby that really showcases some of the nice enumerable methods it has: gist.github.com/dennispaagma...

Awesome :) will add it to my apps soon

Can you also make it give an error or warning on the implicit boolean values? That's a yml footgun that would be great to avoid!

So you are not entertained?

Awesome! Can't bring my espresso machine, but hopefully I can still get some good coffee ☕

do you keep away from STI because it does not work with foreign key constraints?

@marcoroth.dev I have some files for you on which Herb sometimes crashes (either segfaults, crashes with a bug (try to mark T_NONE object) or a full hang where I have to `kill -9` the process), are you interested in them? I think I can share them with you, but rather not publically on Github!

Wrote up a small article on something I've implemented in my Hotwire Native app that I think is useful for everyone!

This opens universal links directly in their own app, but still opens the rest in a modal.

paagman.dev/deep-link-ho...

oh yeah of course, crazy how my mind just ignores it because it has no 's' behind it like the others.

in an other, smaller app:

> Finished in 0.03202 seconds (files took 1.02 seconds to load)

> bin/rspec spec/bla.rb 0.86s user 0.37s system 96% cpu 1.275 total

with rspec, interestingly the "seconds to load" is higher than what `time` outputs.

> Finished in 0.1374 seconds (files took 2.51 seconds to load)
1 example, 0 failures

> bin/rspec spec/bla.rb 1.90s user 0.86s system 95% cpu 2.891 total

Same for me!

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I asked them and we need to wait a little while longer:

> I reached out to our Engineers to know when are we going to release Postgres 17. Looks like we don’t have the ETA as of now. As a very rough timeline, between Feb and April.

Postgres 17 has made some improvements that can speed up Rails apps a lot (see: benoittgt.github.io/blog/postgre... by @benoittgt.bsky.social).

But it's not available on Heroku yet!

I wrote up another small post about Hotwire Native! How to make 'delete' menu items stand out in the menu component. Hopefully it's useful for someone as I really like them this way 🙂 paagman.dev/make-delete-...

I wrote up a little post about how to get native sharing working with Hotwire Native → paagman.dev/hotwire-nati...

Did you know you can bundle gems directly from a GitHub gist? I didn't, and I'm wondering if anyone ever uses that 🤔

bundler.io/v2.5/man/gem...

Hahah I did the same over the last weeks. Painful but great when it’s done!

And:

* Upgraded to Turbo 8.
* Enabled some of the newer Turbo features like morphing and link prefetching. Feels really smooth and fast.

Now onto Rails 8!

Also:

* got rid of some old jQuery based libraries, like selectize and a datepicker. Now on hotwire_combobox and the regular browser native datepicker.
* introduced Phlex and Tailwind in a few places.
* migrated from Font Awesome to Phlex icons.

Finally migrated my app off Webpacker and onto Vite!

Quite a rabbit hole, I had to migrate quite a few things:

* Bulma (css framework) from 0.x to 1.x. This required upgrading sassc to dartsass and removing some custom bulma components that are no longer working with 1.x.

Yeah I remember that being introduced now! I'm now wondering if it's difficult to benchmark a lot of bundler versions and compare their performance 🤔 might give it a go some time, would be a fun blog post.

solid advice! How do you like to structure your tests, 'happy path' or 'unhappy' first? I go back and forth on it a lot.