Issue 241 — April 9, 2015
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Awesome Ruby
At least a couple of hundred gems split up into about sixty categories. This is a curated list rather than a data driven one like Ruby Toolbox.
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Jason Swett
A tutorial that covers the practicalities of getting Rails and Angular to work together in the scope of building a single-page JavaScript-based webapp.
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Janis Miezitis
The Enumerable module is full of interesting methods, many of which aren’t commonly seen in the wild. This post looks at a few interesting ones.
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Engine Yard Sponsored
Focus on building great applications instead of worrying about the complexities of supporting production environments, time-consuming system admin & maintenance tasks. You have the flexibility to choose the levels of automation and control you need with our team of experts supporting you every stage along the way.
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Matt Brictson
Matt starts ‘Minitest seems to be enjoying a spike in popularity’ and this seems to be true with all the posts I'm seeing lately.
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Maciej Mensfeld
MRI has a single global method cache per process, not per thread, and this can have implications in heavily threaded Ruby apps that perform certain operations.
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Kazuki Tanaka
Aims to bring the advantages of static typing ‘without changing existing code’s behavior’. It lets you easily define runtime type check assertions, somewhat like contracts.ruby - but beware the performance implications.
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Jobs
In brief
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