---
title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 222"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 222
published_at: "2014-11-20"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/222"
---

This week's Ruby news, issue 222

This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/222)

Ruby WeeklyIssue 222 — November 20, 2014

Omniref[Could Ruby 3.0 Support Static Typing?](https://www.omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/11/17/matz-at-rubyconf-2014-will-ruby-3-dot-0-be-statically-typed/)Matz gave a keynote at RubyConf 2014 where he presented some major ideas for Ruby 3.0, including how Ruby might be able to implement static typing.


Omniref[A Massive Garbage Collection Speedup in Ruby 2.2](https://www.omniref.com/blog/blog/2014/11/18/ko1-at-rubyconf-2014-massive-garbage-collection-speedup-in-ruby-2-dot-2/)At RubyConf 2014, ko1 (Koichi Sasada) explained some significant speedups that will be included in Ruby 2.2, including garbage collection for symbols and incremental garbage collection.


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Riding Rails[Rails 3.2.21, 4.0.12, and 4.1.8 Released](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/11/17/Rails-3-2-21-4-0-12-and-4-1-8-have-been-released/)Contain a security fix where the existence of arbitrary files can be leaked (but not the contents). [4.0.11.1 and 4.1.7.1 have also been released](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/11/19/Rails-4-0-11-1-and-4-1-7-1-have-been-released/) for anyone on those branches.


Brian Shirai[Rubinius 3.0 - Part 5: The Language](http://rubini.us/2014/11/14/rubinius-3-0-part-5-the-language/)The conclusion to a series of articles about Rubinius 3.0 looks at the changes it will introduce to the language itself.


Thoughtbot[Speed Up JavaScript Capybara Specs by Blacklisting URLs](http://robots.thoughtbot.com/speed-up-javascript-capybara-specs-by-blacklisting-urls)Removing things like Typekit and other font services and external APIs can speed up your integration tests.


In brief

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