Transformers for Ruby

And blazer[0], the closest thing to a perfect BI tool. It has a SQL editor/runner, saved queries, audit history, dashboards, alerts and user access control; all in a rails engine you can mount with minimal configuration.

[0]https://github.com/ankane/blazer

andruby• 2 years ago

PgHero is also from him I believe. Very helpful to identify slow queries in production, remove duplicate indexes, see missing indexes, keep an eye on table size, etc.

https://github.com/ankane/pghero

swyx• 2 years ago

what the heck? has anyone interviewed him? i'd love to learn more about how he works

rgrieselhuber• 2 years ago

One of the most prolific people that I am aware of.

mtkd• 2 years ago

For anyone using Ruby who doesn't know ankane already, there are some very useful tools in his github ... like /disco which is a super simple collaborative filtering implemention if you want to quickly drop some recommendation in somewhere

If you are looking for anything ML related with Ruby ankane has usually had a look already ...

philip1209• 2 years ago

We use so many tools from Andrew Kane in our production repo. His packages make it possible to build an AI application using Rails.

mooreds• 2 years ago

He's also done a ton outside the AI space:

https://github.com/ankane/pretender makes it super easy to impersonate a different user in a rails app

https://github.com/ankane/ahoy is first party analytics for rails

https://github.com/ankane/blazer is BI built into rails

https://github.com/ankane/field_test is A/B testing

This kind of stuff is why rails is so productive for a normal web app. Sure, there are better vendor and point solutions for each of these, but the ability to drop in a gem, do some configuration and have a 80% solution lets you ship so. damn. fast.

mosselman• 2 years ago

Ahoy, blazer and field_test form the basis of our very strong no-BS data infra. It is so simple.

I still want to try and combine ahoy with a column store in postgres so that we can run the analytical queries straight onto postgres instead of syncing the events to BigQuery.

I've tried using pg_analytics by Paradedb but they don't support json columns, which is necessary with ahoy. Performance wise that would be ideal though.

czbond• 2 years ago

Thanks for creating this - it looks interesting. Contributions like this are really needed in the Ruby community

berkes5• 2 years ago

They really are.

The lack of such contributions -in general- or the speed at which they appear, is what leads me to conclude that the Ruby community is slowing down.

In this case, suddenly there's an awesome library for Ruby. Which is fantastic. An achievement to be very thankful for. But "the community" "produced" this months or years after such libs landed for Python, JS, TS, Rust, Go and so on.

Not just ML/AI, same happens for "gems" (Ruby libs) that deal with any new tech. It used to be that any SAAS or startup would offer official Rubygems from the get-go. Often before offering other platforms or languages. Today, when I want or need to integrate something, from notion to slack to cloudflare: no Ruby option or at least no official one.

This saddens me. Ruby is so much more than Rails (for which I can understand the reluctance or "hate"). Ruby is so much nicer to work in than Python and certainly than JavaScript. Ruby could easily have been what Python is today and tens of thousands of developers would be just a little happier than they are now, I am certain.

gjtorikian• 2 years ago

This is such an odd comment to me.

On the one hand, you praise Ruby, and lament that it gains such libraries so much later than other languages.

On the other hand...if you were paying attention to the "Python, JS, TS, Rust, Go and so on" ecosystems, and noticed the ML/AI work, why didn't you create one for Ruby yourself?

I guarantee that whatever answer you give doesn't matter, because every other Rubyist has their own reply. A "community" begins with one person doing the thing.

downrightmike• 2 years ago

Can you give me some examples? This seems like an interesting problem.

reducesuffering• 2 years ago

is what leads me to conclude that the Ruby community is slowing down

That conclusion was apparent awhile ago.

https://trends.stackoverflow.co/?tags=ruby,python,php,typesc...

theappsecguy2• 2 years ago

I find the ruby gem ecosystem significantly richer than any another. Maybe not by sheer quality, which quickly translates to millions of abandoned libraries (I’m looking at you nom), but certainly quality.

It’s also recently on the rise in general.

qudat• 2 years ago

Such absolutely wild takes here. I think ruby is the worst language I have ever used, especially with rails.

I’m not surprised at all that the ruby ecosystem is dying, people have been complaining about its magic-ness for a decade and it’s still a problem today.

jashmatthews2• 2 years ago

Competitive pressure on SaaS companies and startups is much higher now and while there are tons of people are building client wrappers and other much more exciting stuff in Ruby none of its getting extracted, polished and open-sourced because everyone is entirely justifiably freaking out about profitability.

rsoto• 2 years ago

Ankane's Onnx runtime for ruby is so easy to use that makes you wonder why the official repo for js is so difficult to understand. This guy's a hero, although I'm only scratching the surface for what he has done.

blob64• 2 years ago

Some amazing tools from this guy : hip hip hooray for more :)

realty_geek• 2 years ago

Seriously, is this guy human? I'd invest a billion dollars in any individual so talented...

delichon• 2 years ago

I'm 100th as talented and would consider accepting a $10M investment.

shayonj• 2 years ago

Ankane single handedly is contributing so much back to the industry, in so many ways. Wild!

aantix• 2 years ago

Any plans for implementing coreference resolution, similar to the FastCoref?

Alifatisk• 2 years ago

I can’t describe how thankful I am for Ankanes gems, the stuff hes created has been essential for some of my apps. He fills the gap on the ecosystem in my opinion.

hahahacorn• 2 years ago

I'm sure it's not why he does it, but I just nominated ankane for the Rails 2024 Luminary award, if anyone else wanted to express their gratitude.. https://rubyonrails.org/2024/8/2/nominations-open-for-2024-l...

wkirby• 2 years ago

Seconded. The sheer volume of useful work Ankane puts out for the community is unreal.

theappsecguy2• 2 years ago

How does one person end up being this productive? With I assume a pretty busy life of work, family, etc…

danieldrehmer• 2 years ago

wait, but why?

buf• 2 years ago

Andrew Kane and Chris Oliver are the best of the best in the ruby community IMO. Even if I don't use all their contributions, they are most welcome.

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