Ruby Weekly
Issue 298 — May 19, 2016
Yui Naruse
Matz says: “I should have unified those classes at the first hand. It’s much cleaner & simpler. Try unifying them and see if it would go well.”


Heroku
Extracts from a brief interview with Aaron ‘tenderlove’ Patterson at RailsConf.


Maciej Nowak
Gush is a parallel workflow runner that uses Redis as its message broker.


David Heinemeier Hansson
DHH reflects on his beginnings with Ruby (on a 800MHz iBook) and reasserts his long standing opinion that programmer happiness and productivity outweigh raw speed.


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Ryan Davis
At RailsConf 2016, Ryan Davis showed how to write tests from scratch starting with assertions and building up to a full testing framework.


Idiosyncratic Ruby
RbConfig provides a collection of low-level information about your system, both at the OS level and the Ruby interpreter itself.


Heiko Webers
A Content Security Policy (CSP) is a great way to reduce or completely remove Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.


Tim Craft
If you haven’t ever played with Mechanize, this is a handy (and topical) introduction based on a recent decision by the BBC.


Reddit
This question on Reddit has provoked a lot of interesting replies.


Discourse
Provides a minimal two-way bridge between the V8 JavaScript engine and Ruby. Lighter weight than therubyracer, and has an execjs adapter for use with Rails asset packaging.


Jobs

  • Senior Full-stack Web App Engineer for fast-growing SaaS companyFreeAgent are looking for an experienced full-stack web app engineer to grow their product team, leading by example to help us write great code and impress our customers with amazing new features. FreeAgent
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In brief