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title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 227"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 227
published_at: "2015-01-01"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/227"
---

This week's Ruby news, issue 227

Ruby 2.2, Rails 4.2, RIP James Golick, RubySpec debate, and more.[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/227)

Ruby WeeklyIssue 227 — January 1, 2015

Ruby News[Ruby 2.2.0 Released on Christmas Day](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/12/25/ruby-2-2-0-released/)As expected, Ruby 2.2 was released on Christmas Day (a long standing Ruby tradition). With a new incremental garbage collector and the garbage collection of symbols, both performance increases and a reduction in memory usage are promised. The forthcoming Rails 5.0 will also require Ruby 2.2 or later.


Official Rails Blog[Rails 4.2 Released Packed With New Features](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/12/19/Rails-4-2-final/)Includes Active Job (a queueing/job framework), asynchronous mailing (using Active Job), Adequate Record (a set of Active Record performance improvements), the Web Console, and more. The [official release notes](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/4_2_release_notes.html) are packed with info.


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Ben Kaufman[Remembering James Golick](https://medium.com/@benkaufman/remembering-james-golick-23c1dc3ab920)The Ruby world has lost another good developer. RIP James.


Nate Berkopec[RubySpec Is Dead, Long Live RubySpec](https://gist.github.com/nateberkopec/11dbcf0ee7f2c08450ea)A summary of some recent debate over the role of the now-terminated RubySpec project alongside MRI and JRuby.


Phusion[Phusion Passenger 5 Beta 2 Released](http://blog.phusion.nl/2014/12/22/phusion-passenger-5-beta-2/)It’s still in beta and there have been [issues](https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/1314) with compilation on certain platforms/scenarios, so wait for the final before putting it into production. It’s shaping up to be a great release though.


Daniel Kehoe[Updating to Rails 4.2](http://railsapps.github.io/updating-rails.html)Now updated for the final 4.2 release.


In brief

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