---
title: "This Week's Ruby News"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 203
published_at: "2014-07-10"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/203"
---

This Week's Ruby News

EOL for Ruby 1.8.7/1.9.2, retrofitting tests, a curated list of Ruby tools, writing readable feature tests[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/203)

Ruby WeeklyIssue 203 — July 10, 2014

Ruby News[End of Life for Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/07/01/eol-for-1-8-7-and-1-9-2/)Extended maintenance of Ruby versions 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 will end on July 31, 2014 after a six month extension graciously supported by Heroku.


Avdi Grimm[Zero to Smoke Test with Sinatra](http://devblog.avdi.org/2014/07/08/zero-to-smoke-test-with-sinatra/)Avdi Grimm has documented the process of retrofitting tests to a test-less Sinatra app using RSpec, Rake::Test, Capybara, EmailSpec and Pony, mocking OmniAuth callbacks, and DatabaseCleaner. Very useful.


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Marc Anguera Insa[Awesome Ruby: A Curated Collection of Awesome Ruby Libraries, Tools, etc.](https://github.com/markets/awesome-ruby)All split up into a ton of categories such as caching, file uploads, style guides, WebSockets, threading, etc. All it’s missing is Ruby Weekly, haha.


FutureLearn[How We Write Readable Feature Tests with RSpec](https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/how-we-write-readable-feature-tests-with-rspec/)Chris Zetter, a developer in the FutureLearn product team, talks about how the team writes feature tests after moving from Cucumber to RSpec in the pursuit of maintainable and readable tests.


In brief

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