Ruby Weekly #780: What's New in Ruby 4.0
a day ago
- #Database
- #Rails
- #Ruby 4.0
- Ruby 4.0 is expected to release on Christmas Day, with headline changes summarized by Nithin Bekal.
- Ruby 4.0.0 Preview 3 has been released, featuring hundreds of minor changes since preview 2.
- CERN has chosen TimescaleDB for its next-generation archiver, citing performance improvements.
- Discussion on choosing the right admin gem for Rails apps, inspired by 37signals' Fizzy app.
- Smart Rails applications leveraging AI solutions are highlighted as present-day tools.
- Seasonal tips include adding snow to apps with Stimulus and beautiful Rails confirmation dialogs.
- TreeHaver introduced as a cross-Ruby adapter for Tree-Sitter and Citrus parsing libraries.
- ruby-ti, a static type checker for mruby written in Go, now includes LSP support.
- Kimurai 2.0 released, a Ruby web scraping framework updated for Ruby 3.x standards.
- Loofah 2.25.0 updates HTML/XML manipulation and sanitization tools.
- Top 5 Ruby videos of 2025 include topics from Jupyter Notebooks with Ruby to an interview with Matz.
- Final issue of the year, with a possible bonus issue for Ruby 4.0's launch.