Issue #308: Using SSL with Passenger in Development, A Flaky Test Story, and Ruby Prize 2016

Using SSL with Passenger in Development, A Flaky Test Story, and Ruby Prize 2016

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Issue 308 — July 28, 2016

Phusion

Using SSL with Passenger in Development on Mac OS X

How to install and trust a self-signed certificate on your development server, and set up your DNS to redirect your dev traffic to your dev box.

Ivan Tse

How I Tracked Down a Flaky Test

If you like real world stories that could impact how you approach your own problems, this is a worthwhile read.

Ruby Association

Ruby Prize 2016 Nominations Now Open

Each year the Ruby Association in Japan has an award for ‘new and outstanding’ members of the Ruby community. Matz invites you to nominate people now.

Cloud 66 Sponsored

Getting the Most out of your Database with Ruby on Rails

The tips, tricks, and previously hidden gems that help you create a secure, future-proof, and high performance Rails-based application.

Ievgen Kuzminov

Ruby Web Dev The Other Way

A wide ranging and opinionated list of technologies, resources, and ideas on alternative approaches for building web apps both with and without Rails.

Piotr Solnica

ROM (Ruby Object Mapper) 2.0.0 Released

“This release is a huge milestone for the project as its infrastructure is now complete - this means that all core APIs and high-level extensions are in place”

Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas

RackToolkit: A Fast Server & DSL for Testing Rack Apps

Pprovides a DSL to perform get and post requests and allows fast integration tests with automatic cookie-based session management. GitHub repo.

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In brief

WindyCityRails 2016: A Gathering in Chicago (September 15-16) news
Web Applications on Phusion Passenger Are Not Vulnerable to HTTPoxy news
Phusion
Introducing 'assert_changes' and 'assert_no_changes' to Rails news
Genadi Samokovarov
Download free eBook: Why Containers and Docker are the Future
In this eBook we will have a look at the Traditional Stack, the Virtual Machine Stack and the Container Stack.
Codeship Sponsored
Phases of Refactoring Complex Rails Apps tutorial
Marcin Grzywaczewski
Understanding a Fundamental Ruby Concurrency Abstraction tutorial
What is a thread pool, why it is useful and how can we implement our own?
Ross Kaffenberger
Behind The Scenes: How Numbers Work in Ruby tutorial
Jesus Castello
Uploading Files in Rails Using Paperclip and Active Admin tutorial
Matt Rozema
Rbenv: How It Works tutorial
Subtitled: “Dealing with rbenv errors without Google or Stack Overflow”
Sudhagar
How to Manage Campaign Monitor Lists with Ruby tutorial
Campaign Monitor is a hosted email sending service.
Ready Steady Code
How We Integrate React with Rails to Build A Powerful UX story
Yoni Weisbrod
A Writeup of the Brighton Ruby 2016 Experience story
The caliber of talks and speakers was very high.
Toby Osbourn
Consider Turbolinks 5 for Your Next Rails Project opinion
Corey Martin
Why You Shouldn't Roll Your Own Authentication in Rails opinion
Sid Krishnan
LetsEncrypt Heroku: Bring SSL to Any Heroku App in Minutes tools
Bills itself as alpha software so YMMV.
Substrakt
Stop Ops from Eating up Your Precious Dev Time for Good
OpsCare® provides fixed price, monthly Operations as a Service for your Rails app, letting you get on with building features instead of worrying about your servers.
Reinteractive Sponsored
MiniStatsD: A Simple StatsD Client in Ruby code
Igor Marques da Silva
PureCDB: A Pure Ruby CDB Reader/Writer with 64 Bit Extensions code
cdb is a database format.
Hokstad Consulting Ltd
Hanami v0.8.0 Released code
Luca Guidi
Rack Web Console: A Web Console for Rack Apps code
Why let Rails have all the fun? Bring a Web console to any Rack app.
Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
FFI::Mmap: Ruby FFI-based Mmap Interface code
Disclaimer: It’s still early days.
Hokstad Consulting Ltd
spec_object: A DSL for Describing the Behavior of Objects code tutorial
Daniel Waterworth
PushType: A Modern Open Source CMS for Rails code
A good looking, modern CMS, Check the screenshots on the GitHub repo.
Push Code
Action Cable Extracted From Rails 5 and Packaged as a Node.js Module code
Tom Chinery

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