---
title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 211"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 211
published_at: "2014-09-04"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/211"
---

This week's Ruby news, issue 211

This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/211)

Ruby WeeklyIssue 211 — September 4, 2014

David Heinemeier Hansson[Yehuda Katz Retires from Rails Core; but Welcome to Senny and Godfrey](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/9/3/Senny-and-Godfrey-to-Rails-core-Yehuda-to-alumni/)The Rails core team has gained a couple of new members, Yves Senn and Godfrey Chan, but Yehuda Katz is stepping back. Give a shout-out to Yehuda on Twitter [@wycats](https://twitter.com/wycats) for his epic work on Rails 3 and more.


Thomas Cannon[Porting Your Test Suite to MiniTest: A Series](http://thomascannon.me/posts/porting-to-minitest-part-2/)Thomas first looked at [what you stand to gain](http://thomascannon.me/posts/porting-to-minitest-part-1/) from switching to MiniTest, before looking at [how to port your existing tests.](http://thomascannon.me/posts/porting-to-minitest-part-2/)


Robert Pankowecki[Adapters 101](http://blog.arkency.com/2014/08/ruby-rails-adapters/)A look at an elegant way to decouple your Ruby code from third party code to improve modularity and maintainability, complete with a practical example, and a look at how to test adapters.


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James Coglan[Refactoring Our Rails App Out of Single-Table Inheritance (STI)](https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/refactoring-rails-sti/)An extensive write-up of how one app reached bloated table hell when using single table inheritance and how they redesigned and reimplemented their approach.


Josh Clayton[Acceptance Tests at a Single Level of Abstraction](http://robots.thoughtbot.com/acceptance-tests-at-a-single-level-of-abstraction)Josh argues that acceptance tests should remain at a similar level of abstraction throughout, using helper methods to do so.


Daniel Kehoe[Rails Authorization, a How To](http://railsapps.github.io/rails-authorization.html)An overview of authorization techniques in Rails, including role-based authorization, with a comparison of the CanCan and Pundit gems.


Fabiano Pereira[Clean Architecture in Ruby](https://medium.com/@fbzga/clean-architecture-in-ruby-7eb3cd0fc145)A look at seven steps you can take to build a Ruby app that follows some of the ‘clean architecture’ ideas outlined in Uncle Bob’s famed Ruby Midwest keynote, [Architecture, the Lost Years.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884)


In brief

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