---
title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 225"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 225
published_at: "2014-12-11"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/225"
---

This week's Ruby news, issue 225

RubyConf 2014 videos, reasons to love Minitest, a new Ruby app packager, and more.[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/225)

Ruby WeeklyIssue 225 — December 11, 2014

Confreaks[16 Videos from RubyConf 2014 (So Far)](http://confreaks.com/events/RubyConf2014)Confreaks were present at RubyConf in San Diego last month and have been releasing their recordings of the sessions here.


Ben Lewis[Seven Reasons I Love Minitest](https://blog.engineyard.com/2014/seven-reasons-i-love-minitest)Test::Unit style testing has had a resurgence in the past year or two, mostly thanks to Minitest. Ben Lewis looks at some reasons why Minitest is a powerful and popular choice for testing Ruby code.


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Phusion[Traveling Ruby: Self-Contained, Portable Ruby Binaries](http://phusion.github.io/traveling-ruby/)From Phusion comes a toolkit to create self-contained Ruby app packages for Linux and OS X as an easy way to ship apps to end users.


Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto[Streem: A Stream Based Programming Language Prototype from Matz](https://github.com/matz/streem)Ruby’s creator, Matz, is working on a new stream based language. It’s in its early days but is clearly influenced by Ruby.


Pablo Cantero[Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) to the Rescue](http://www.pablocantero.com/blog/2014/11/29/sqs-to-the-rescue/)A look at some examples of using Amazon’s queue service, ahead of an introduction to Shoryuken, a project based on Sidekiq that uses SQS instead of Redis.


Official Rails Blog[Rails 4.2.0 Release Candidate 2 Released](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/12/5/Rails-4-2-0-rc2-has-been-released/)Just a week after RC1 comes RC2. A final release of 4.2 is expected ‘just in time for Christmas.’


In brief

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