---
title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 210"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 210
published_at: "2014-08-28"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/210"
---

This week's Ruby news, issue 210

Using and/or, ideas for Rack 2.0, process coordination in Ruby, and the 'return' of fixtures.[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/210)

Ruby WeeklyIssue 210 — August 28, 2014

Avdi Grimm[How to Use Ruby’s English 'and'/'or' Operators Without Going Nuts (video)](http://devblog.avdi.org/2014/08/26/how-to-use-rubys-english-andor-operators-without-going-nuts/)A tight five minute presentation and investigation into using ‘and’ and ‘or’ versus && and ||


Aaron Patterson[the_metal: A Spike for Thoughts About Rack 2.0](https://github.com/tenderlove/the_metal)The new maintainer of Rack, Aaron ‘tenderlove’ Patterson, is noodling on ideas for the next major version of the Ruby Web server interface. Nothing to use yet, but he’s looking for ideas and quite simply wants to ‘make the HTTP landscape for Ruby even more amazing!’


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Andrew Warner[Beware the Siren Song of Comments](http://www.leastastonished.com/blog/2014/08/27/beware-the-siren-song-of-comments/)A look at some practical examples of how to use methods and naming techniques to avoid having comments in your code.


James Edward Gray II[Sleepy Programs](http://graysoftinc.com/rubies-in-the-rough/sleepy-programs)JEG2 plays around with doing some intelligent process coordination in Ruby.


Jason Roelofs[Time to Bring Back Fixtures](http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2014/08/06/time-to-bring-back-fixtures/)“Fixtures are no longer a feature to be feared or ostracized. They are fantastic for keeping your tests fast.” I agree, I've been working on a Rails 4.2 app this week and they're better than I remember..


In brief

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