An Overview of Ruby on Rails 7.1 Features. Part III

• portrayal

  1 67 4.5 Ruby

  A minimal builder for struct-like classes in Ruby

  

I've been had great success building form objects with portrayal (https://github.com/scottscheapflights/portrayal) and ActiveModel. You can put validations into them, use them as form objects. Auto-filter the params based on class-level `portrayal.attributes` by making a `from_params`-type constructor. You're right that it'd be nice to have this out of the box, but this is just a few lines of glue code to setup. I'm in process of working on a new app template that does that.

• railsdiff

  2 109 6.8 TypeScript

  What you should change about your app's configuration when upgrading Rails versions

  

I've never had problems with upgrades, in fact the latest version of Rails make upgrading a breeze. What Rails app version are you trying to upgrade? Happy to help. Rails also has an upgrade guide that's quite good: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/upgrading_ruby_on_rails.html

And you can use https://railsdiff.org/ to check what you're missing in upgrade apps. Anything other thing that break would most prolly come from another gem, which doesn't make it's Rails' fault or Ruby itself.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• authentication-zero

  15 1,336 8.0 Ruby

  An authentication system generator for Rails applications.

True. I tend to stay away from gems that try to integrate into multiple parts of your app to provide some sort of comprehensive solution. The kinds of gems I recommend are: 1) libraries (you call into them when you need them) 2) mounted apps on a url, isolated from the rest of your app 3) generators (this one seems nice, the author mentioned it in another HN thread: https://github.com/lazaronixon/authentication-zero).

• Grape

  12 9,832 8.3 Ruby

  An opinionated framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.

  

I'm very ambivalent about Grape, but this very much reminds me of something I do really like about it: the param validation. https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape#parameters

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