dynamoid VS ronin

To interact with the Dynamodb table I used a gem called dynamoid. I created a Connection model in order to use it like Connection.create(connection_id) and Connection.find(connectionId).delete.

There is a lot more to learn about the Dynamoid gem, but hopefully, this is enough to get you started playing around. I encourage you to check out the official GitHub page here to read more about the features available to you!

Working with DynamoDB in Ruby can be painful compared to how easy it is to configure and use SQL databases via ActiveRecord. Fortunately there's a way to speed things up thanks to Dynamoid gem which introduces ActiveRecord-like abstractions for interacting with DynamoDB.

Example: https://github.com/ronin-rb/ronin/blob/2.1.0/man/ronin-bitflip.1.md

No, it's just no longer over-hyped. Ruby is settling into being a mature production language, similar to Python, Java, .NET, C++, etc. As you can see from the RedMonk 2023 data Ruby is very much still alive with tons of repositories on GitHub. Besides Shopify, GitHub is another big Ruby/Rails shop. Also, besides Rails, there are other new and upcoming projects like Hanami, DragonRuby, and Ronin.

Not sure why this is posted today, but for the other kind of Ruby 'hacking' there's Ronin[1]

1: https://ronin-rb.dev/

You might also be interested in Ronin.

This is something that kind of annoys me; there's even a /r/rails sub-reddit specifically for Ruby on Rails stuff. Understandably Rails helped put Ruby on the map. Before Rails, Ruby was just another fringe language. Rails became massively popular, helped many startups quickly build their Web 2.0 sites, and become successful companies (ex: GitHub, LinkedIn, AirBnB, etc). Like others have said, "Rails is where the money is at". However, this posses a problem for the Ruby community: whenever Rails becomes less popular, so does Ruby. I wish the Ruby ecosystem wasn't so heavily centralized around Rails, and that we diversified our uses of Ruby a bit. There's of course Sinatra, dry-rb, Hanami, Dragon Ruby, SciRuby, and a dozen security tools written in Ruby such as Metasploit, BeFF, Arachni, and Ronin.

Welcome! Ruby isn't exactly "dying", but the hype/popularity is definitely fading. This is primarily because Ruby is no longer "new", most of Ruby's popularity came from Rails, and now Rails is no longer the "new hotness". However, Ruby still has lots of awesome features and lots of awesome other libraries and frameworks, such as the new fancy irb gem that uses reline, nokogiri, chunky_png, the async gems, Dragon Ruby, SciRuby, Ronin, and the new Hanami web framework.