Issue 236 — March 5, 2015
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Phusion
The popular Ruby application server takes a big step forward with version 5 (such as better performance and better WebSocket support) and it’s now out of beta.
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Ruby News
A minor update to 2.2 that mostly fixes an FFI build failure and memory leak issue with the Symbol GC.
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Albert Still
The famous decryption machine used in the UK during World War 2.
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Omniref
An interesting look at the differences involved when you either explicitly call blocks or just yield to them.
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Lourens
Despite all the improvements to MRI’s garbage collector, there are still things you can tune and optimize. Learn how to find optimal GC settings here.
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SitePoint
A 6 minute screencast where Robert Qualls dives into the Ruby load path, how require and load work, and how to make sure your code always gets loaded.
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Jakub Kosinski
If you’ve internationalized your backend app with gettext, it might be convenient to share those translations with the JavaScript-based front-end too.
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Phusion
What’s new in the Ruby, Node.js and Python app server. Much improved performance for starters.
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Jobs
In brief
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