--- title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 233" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 233 published_at: "2015-02-12" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/233" --- This week's Ruby news, issue 233 This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/233) Ruby WeeklyIssue 233 — February 12, 2015 Koichi Sasada[PrettyBacktrace: Improved Ruby Exception Backtraces](https://github.com/ko1/pretty_backtrace)An interesting project from a well known Ruby core member that makes your exception backtraces more informative, including local variable values. Phusion[Traveling Ruby 20150210: Smaller, Supports Ruby 2.2 and Windows](http://blog.phusion.nl/2015/02/09/traveling-ruby-20150210-smaller-supports-ruby-2-2-windows/)Allows you to create self-contained, ‘portable’ Ruby binaries for Windows, Linux, and OS X. Code School[Ruby Hero Awards Nominations Open](http://rubyheroes.com/)The Ruby Heroes awards are handed out each year at RailsConf to people in the Ruby community who deserve some recognition. Get your nominations in for 2015 now. SemaphoreSponsored[Semaphore CI is free for open source and private projects](https://semaphoreapp.com/)Test and deploy your projects directly from GitHub or Bitbucket with zero setup, fast execution, and expert support. Join GitLab, 500px and many more organizations who have improved their productivity with Semaphore. [![Semaphore\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/d9f7c49e.png)](https://semaphoreapp.com/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) Tom Copeland[String Method Use and Misuse](http://thomasleecopeland.com/2015/02/10/string-use-and-misuse.html)Sometimes you’ll see code that misuses the String class API. Luckily, there’s a utility to help you find such code programatically. Scott Hanselman[Running Rails on IIS8 (or Anything Else, Really) with The New HttpPlatformHandler](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingRunningRubyOnRailsOnIIS8OrAnythingElseReallyWithTheNewHttpPlatformHandler.aspx)HttpPlatformHandler allows Microsoft's IIS to host anything that can run on Windows and listen on a certain port, basically a reverse proxy plugin. Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson[Weird Stuff with Hashes](http://tenderlovemaking.com/2015/02/11/weird-stuff-with-hashes.html)Tenderlove looks at an interesting hash related quirk he’s discovered. Enjoy this mostly for curiosity’s sake though, you’re not very likely to hit this issue. Phusion[Phusion Passenger 5 Beta 3: More Stable, Turbocaching Updates](http://blog.phusion.nl/2015/02/09/phusion-passenger-5-beta-3-stable-turbocaching-updates/)I’ve had some troubles with earlier Passenger 5 betas but Phusion are now happy to commit to beta 3 being ‘more or less ready for production’ with the final release expected later this month Jobs - [Technical Lead - Ruby at Lonely Planet (Franklin, TN)](http://www.lonelyplanet.com/careers/?#op-37508-technical-lead-ruby)The Technical Lead is responsible for providing technical leadership and consistent technical direction on the Lonely Planet development platform to both the Lonely Planet technical teams, as well as external parties. Lonely Planet - [Ruby/Rails Software Engineer at DadeSystems (Miami, FL)](http://dadesystems.com/careers/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email)We're looking for a full time Ruby/Rails software engineer to be part of our small development team in Miami, FL. Responsibilities would include improving and maintaining our core Rails application and supporting Ruby/Java pieces. DadeSystems - [Senior Backend Engineer at Drivy (Paris, France)](https://en.drivy.com/jobs?utm_source=ruby_weekly=ruby_weekly_job#2015-backend)We're building the leading peer-to-peer car rental service (think "Airbnb for cars") in Europe and we're looking for an experienced Ruby developer to help us tackle some exciting challenges. Drivy In brief - [Amazon Upgrades Ruby SDK to Help Developers Write Less Code](http://www.techworld.com/news/apps/amazon-upgrades-ruby-sdk-help-developers-write-less-code-3597240/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news TechWorld - [Tropical Ruby 2015 — March 5th to 8th at Porto de Galinhas, Brazil](http://tropicalrb.com/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news TropicalRB - [A Kickstarter for a new Visual 'Learn Web Development with Rails' Project](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arikrak/ruby-on-rails-tutorial?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news Already past its funding goal but I thought some of you would like the unique style and beginner focus. Ariel Krakowski - [3 days left to take Hampton Catlin's Ruby Survey if you haven't yet](http://www.ruby-survey.com/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) Hampton Catlin - [An easier way to deploy host your Rails app – for free.](https://ninefold.com/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Get a 1.5 GB combined Rails app server in the US, for free (seriously). NinefoldSponsored - [Testing Elasticsearch In Your Rails 4 Application](http://www.binarywebpark.com/testing-elasticsearch-in-your-rails-4-application/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Bruce Park - [Setting up Ember.js (ember-cli) with Rails](http://nandovieira.com/setting-up-emberjs-with-rails-ember-cli-edition?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Nando Vieira - [Customizing Rake Tasks In Rails 4.1 And Higher](http://technology.customink.com/blog/2015/02/08/customizing-rake-tasks-in-rails-41-and-higher/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ken Collins - [The Beginner's Guide to Rails Helpers](http://mixandgo.com/blog/the-beginner-s-guide-to-rails-helpers?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Helpers in Rails are used to extract complex logic out of the view so that you can organize our code better. Cezar Halmagean - [Implementing a Priority Queue in Ruby](http://www.brianstorti.com/implementing-a-priority-queue-in-ruby/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Brian Storti - [Swift for Rubyists - Arrays](http://adamdelong.com/swift-rubyists-arrays/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial If you’re a Rubyist learning Apple’s Swift language, you might enjoy this series. Adam DeLong - [Running Shell Commands from Ruby](http://shiroyasha.github.io/running-shell-commands-from-ruby.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Igor Šarčević - [Authorization with Ruby on Rails 4.2](http://www.amooma.de/screencasts/2015-02-09-authorization-rails-4.2/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) video Stefan Wintermeyer - [Require Only What You Require](http://twin.github.io/2015/01/require-only-what-you-require/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Janko Marohnić - [Which IDEs do Rubyists Use?](http://www.sitepoint.com/ides-rubyists-use/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion A small survey size but ultimately most aren’t using an IDE and any who do are most likely using RubyMine. 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