---
title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 220"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 220
published_at: "2014-11-06"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/220"
---

This week's Ruby news, issue 220

This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/220)

Ruby WeeklyIssue 220 — November 6, 2014

DwellableTrends[A Rails Rumble 2014 Gem Teardown](http://www.dwellable.com/blog/Rails-Rumble-Gem-Teardown)An interesting look at how Rubyists are currently choosing to rapidly develop webapps by analyzing the Gemfiles used during the Rails Rumble. CoffeeScript and Sass are big winners, with Postgres jumping up due to Heroku’s involvement.


Fernando Villalobos[Rails JS Frameworks: Ember.js vs. AngularJS](http://www.airpair.com/ruby-on-rails/posts/ember-vs-angular-with-rails)A look at two popular JavaScript frameworks from the context of using them to interact with a Rails powered backend.


Justin Weiss[respond_to Without All The Pain](http://www.justinweiss.com/blog/2014/11/03/respond-to-without-all-the-pain/)A shortcut around littering all of your Rails app’s controller actions with respond_to blocks.


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Rubinius[Rubinius 2.3.0 Released](https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius/releases/tag/v2.3.0)The alternative Ruby implementation picks up various Ruby 2.1 improvements, along with keyword arguments.


Peter Wagenet[What I Learned About Hunting Memory Leaks in Ruby 2.1](http://blog.skylight.io/hunting-for-leaks-in-ruby/)He never got to the bottom of the problem (which disappeared on its own) but Peter shares some useful tips in this memory leak hunting story.


Maxwell Anselm[The Definitive Guide to Ruby's C API](http://silverhammermba.github.io/emberb/c/)


In brief

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