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Transformers for Ruby

366 points by felipemesquita 2y ago

Alifatisk 2y 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.
riffraff 2y ago
I believe Andrew Kane is also a the author of pgvector[0], pgvector-ruby[1], and neighbor[2], all of which are pretty sweet! Plus a bunch of other stuff[3]. Maybe he solved AI/ML by himself long ago and is using that to be this productive. [0] https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector [1] https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector-ruby https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector-ruby [2] https://github.com/ankane/neighbor https://github.com/ankane/neighbor [3] https://github.com/ankane/ https://github.com/ankane/
- Lukas_Skywalker 2y ago
  Also: - Chartkick, a charting library for Ruby - Ahoy, a Rails analytics library - Searchkick, a Rails search library There are over 370 repos in his Github profile...
  - corytheboyd 2y ago
    FWIW it’s 199 source repos (excluding forks). Still insanely, wildly productive if even 25% of those are substantive projects!
  - felipemesquita 2y ago
    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 https://github.com/ankane/blazer
    - petepete 2y ago
      Blazer is my favourite BI tool by a country mile. It does all I want with no fuss, is a breeze to set up and it's so much faster and more efficient than any of the other BI tools I've tried.
  - andruby 2y 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 https://github.com/ankane/pghero
  - swyx 2y ago
    what the heck? has anyone interviewed him? i'd love to learn more about how he works
- rgrieselhuber 2y ago
  One of the most prolific people that I am aware of.
- mtkd 2y 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 ...
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- philip1209 2y 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 2y ago
  He's also done a ton outside the AI space: https://github.com/ankane/pretender https://github.com/ankane/pretender makes it super easy to impersonate a different user in a rails app https://github.com/ankane/ahoy https://github.com/ankane/ahoy is first party analytics for rails https://github.com/ankane/blazer https://github.com/ankane/blazer is BI built into rails https://github.com/ankane/field_test 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 2y 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.
    - philippemnoel 2y ago
      ParadeDB founder here -- We migrated the pg_analytics project to its own repo and will be adding JSON support!
czbond 2y ago
Thanks for creating this - it looks interesting. Contributions like this are really needed in the Ruby community
- berkes 2y 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 2y 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.
    - vinceguidry 2y ago
      Not just everyone is skilled enough to make great libraries. There is always going to be an order of magnitude more people interested in using a premade library than are going to be capable of making one themselves. Even if ability wasn't a factor, time often is.
rsoto 2y 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 2y ago
Some amazing tools from this guy : hip hip hooray for more :)
realty_geek 2y ago
Seriously, is this guy human? I'd invest a billion dollars in any individual so talented...
- delichon 2y ago
  I'm 100th as talented and would consider accepting a $10M investment.
shayonj 2y ago
Ankane single handedly is contributing so much back to the industry, in so many ways. Wild!
aantix 2y ago
Any plans for implementing coreference resolution, similar to the FastCoref?
hahahacorn 2y 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-luminaries https://rubyonrails.org/2024/8/2/nominations-open-for-2024-l...
- wkirby 2y ago
  Seconded. The sheer volume of useful work Ankane puts out for the community is unreal.
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theappsecguy 2y ago
How does one person end up being this productive? With I assume a pretty busy life of work, family, etc…
danieldrehmer 2y ago
wait, but why?
buf 2y 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.

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.

riffraff 2y ago

I believe Andrew Kane is also a the author of pgvector[0], pgvector-ruby[1], and neighbor[2], all of which are pretty sweet! Plus a bunch of other stuff[3]. Maybe he solved AI/ML by himself long ago and is using that to be this productive. [0] https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector [1] https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector-ruby https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector-ruby [2] https://github.com/ankane/neighbor https://github.com/ankane/neighbor [3] https://github.com/ankane/ https://github.com/ankane/

Lukas_Skywalker 2y ago
Also: - Chartkick, a charting library for Ruby - Ahoy, a Rails analytics library - Searchkick, a Rails search library There are over 370 repos in his Github profile...
- corytheboyd 2y ago
  FWIW it’s 199 source repos (excluding forks). Still insanely, wildly productive if even 25% of those are substantive projects!
- felipemesquita 2y ago
  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 https://github.com/ankane/blazer
  - petepete 2y ago
    Blazer is my favourite BI tool by a country mile. It does all I want with no fuss, is a breeze to set up and it's so much faster and more efficient than any of the other BI tools I've tried.
- andruby 2y 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 https://github.com/ankane/pghero
- swyx 2y ago
  what the heck? has anyone interviewed him? i'd love to learn more about how he works
rgrieselhuber 2y ago
One of the most prolific people that I am aware of.
mtkd 2y 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 ...
deleted 2y ago
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philip1209 2y 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 2y ago
He's also done a ton outside the AI space: https://github.com/ankane/pretender https://github.com/ankane/pretender makes it super easy to impersonate a different user in a rails app https://github.com/ankane/ahoy https://github.com/ankane/ahoy is first party analytics for rails https://github.com/ankane/blazer https://github.com/ankane/blazer is BI built into rails https://github.com/ankane/field_test 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 2y 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.
  - philippemnoel 2y ago
    ParadeDB founder here -- We migrated the pg_analytics project to its own repo and will be adding JSON support!

czbond 2y ago

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

berkes 2y 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 2y 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.
  - vinceguidry 2y ago
    Not just everyone is skilled enough to make great libraries. There is always going to be an order of magnitude more people interested in using a premade library than are going to be capable of making one themselves. Even if ability wasn't a factor, time often is.

rsoto 2y 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 2y ago

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

realty_geek 2y ago

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

delichon 2y ago
I'm 100th as talented and would consider accepting a $10M investment.

shayonj 2y ago

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

aantix 2y ago

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

hahahacorn 2y 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-luminaries https://rubyonrails.org/2024/8/2/nominations-open-for-2024-l...

wkirby 2y ago
Seconded. The sheer volume of useful work Ankane puts out for the community is unreal.
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theappsecguy 2y ago

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

danieldrehmer 2y ago

wait, but why?

buf 2y 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.