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title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 218"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 218
published_at: "2014-10-23"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/218"
---

This week's Ruby news, issue 218

Ruby on Yosemite, taking payments with Stripe, a new Ruby webapp server, Effective Ruby, and more.[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/218)

Ruby WeeklyIssue 218 — October 23, 2014

Daniel Kehoe[Installing a Full Ruby/Rails 4.1 Stack on OS X Yosemite](http://railsapps.github.io/installrubyonrails-mac.html)Daniel Kehoe (of RailsApps fame) has updated his popular walkthrough to the latest versions of Ruby, Rails, and OS X. If you like variety, Dean Perry has a shorter [alternative](https://medium.com/@deanperry/installing-ruby-on-rails-on-osx-yosemite-478f37a86668) that takes a different route.


Yuki Nishijima[Getting a 'Did You Mean?' Experience for Method Typos](http://www.yukinishijima.net/2014/10/21/did-you-mean-experience-in-ruby.html)did_you_mean implements a rather typically Ruby-flavored quirky idea and suggests what methods you meant to call when you make typos in your code.


Pete Keen[Payola: A Rails Engine for Taking Payments with Stripe](https://www.petekeen.net/introducing-payola)Pete Keen, author of _Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails_, is back with a complete solution for accepting Stripe payments within a Rails app.


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SitePoint[Introduction to Using LevelDB in Ruby](http://www.sitepoint.com/leveldb-ruby/)LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library from Google.


Kamil Lelonek[How to Start using Arrays in Rails with PostgreSQL](http://blog.arkency.com/2014/10/how-to-start-using-arrays-in-rails-with-postgresql/)Postgres allows you to store arrays natively on a database table, a potentially powerful and convenient feature. But how do you work with them using Rails and ActiveRecord?


[Raptor: A Radically New Ruby Web Server](http://www.rubyraptor.org/)Not due for public release until late November, Raptor bills itself as a new Ruby webapp server and claims to blow everything else out of the water performance-wise (by between 2-4x). Fabio Akita has [shared some benchmark results](http://www.akitaonrails.com/2014/10/19/the-new-kid-on-the-block-for-ruby-servers-raptor) from a private build.


Peter J Jones[Effective Ruby: A New Book with 48 Specific Ruby Tactics](http://www.effectiveruby.com/)I’ve been sent a review copy of this and at first glance it’s pretty good. It’s 200 pages and oriented around 48 specific tricks or approaches to deploy in Ruby. Full review to come later.


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