---
title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 206"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 206
published_at: "2014-07-30"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/206"
---

This week's Ruby news, issue 206

Matz's Reddit AMA, RubyKaigi reg open, the state of RMagick, Rails 4.2 HTML sanitizing, and more.[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/206)

Ruby WeeklyIssue 206 — July 30, 2014

Reddit[An AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Matz on Reddit Tonight](http://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/2c722r/ama_with_matz_at_lumosity/)Matz is visiting Lumosity this afternoon and they’ll be asking him the top 10 questions left on this Reddit thread later today. Got a question? Ask it while you can.


Kasper Timm Hansen[The New HTML Sanitizer in Rails 4.2](http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2014/07/the-new-html-sanitizer-in-rails-4-2/)Rails 4.2 will come with an all new, faster and more flexible HTML sanitization mechanism for cleaning up user-supplied HTML.


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Official Ruby Blog[RubyKaigi 2014 Registration Now Online (Ruby's 'Home' Conference)](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/07/26/rubykaigi-2014-registration-online/)Takes place in Tokyo, Japan between September 18-20.


rubyconf.org[RubyConf 2014 Registration Now Open (San Diego, Nov 17-19)](http://rubyconf.org/registration)


linduxed[The State of RMagick Development](http://linduxed.com/blog/2014/07/25/the-state-of-rmagick-development/)Love it or hate it, RMagick remains one of the most popular image processing libraries in Ruby, but it’s gotten a bit messy and someone has [forked it](https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/issues/18#issuecomment-50022523) to keep up maintenance.


Pat Maddox[RubySteps: Frequent Ruby Coding Practice with Pat Maddox](http://patmaddox.com/rubysteps/)Pat Maddox (RSpec) has launched a Ruby coding practice service with free daily examples and a lesson each week designed to make you a better Ruby programmer. He’ll be adding extended paid features next week but the core is free.


In brief

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