Jobs

• Senior Ruby Engineers at Bugcrowd (San Francisco, CA)We are looking for senior Ruby engineers to join our highly technical team who are well versed in both building and breaking highly secure software systems. If you've worked on technical or development services we'd love to talk. Bugcrowd
• Full Stack Developer at AlphaSights (New York, NY)Write high quality and maintainable code. Be trusted to act autonomously and influence process/workflows, product direction, and technology choices. Work in a project team with two-week iterations. AlphaSights
• Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO JPMorganWork on special projects with great companies through Toptal. Set your weekly/hourly rate, and work from anywhere in the world as an elite Ruby developer. See if you have what it takes. TopTal

In brief

• Want to share your Ruby knowledge with a global audience? Apply today. news
  Actively seeking Ruby experts to join our tight knit family of passionate teachers and earn royalties.  
  Pluralsight  Sponsored
• Testing Async Emails, The Rails 4.2+ Way tutorial
  Rails 4.2+ makes it easy to send emails asynchronously but how can you reliably test it’s all working?  
  Engine Yard
• Setting up Atom for Rails Development tutorial 
  Miguel Parramón Teixidó
• How to Store Emoji in A Rails App with A MySQL Database tutorial
  Leans on the ‘utf8mb4’ character set in MySQL 5.5.3+.  
  Arkency Blog
• Metaprogramming Dynamic Methods: Using public_send tutorial 
  Vaidehi Joshi
• Weird Ruby Part 4: Code Pods (Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas) tutorial
  A look at closures in Ruby, why you’d want to use them, when, and what type suits which situation.  
  Jonan Scheffler
• Building An Event Sourced Application using rails_event_store tutorial 
  Mirosław Pragłowski
• Speed up Rails with Nginx’s Reverse Proxy Cache tutorial 
  Matt Brictson
• Mocking With RSpec: Doubles and Expectations tutorial 
  Marko Anastasov
• Working with the Postgres JSON Column Type in Rails 4 tutorial 
  Chad Wilken
• Opbeat = Ops for developers tools
  We'll show you the code that is breaking, who wrote it, and how it is affecting performance.
  Ruby Weekly readers get $100 credit. 
  Opbeat  Sponsored
• How Much Testing Is Too Much? opinion 
  Justin Weiss
• RSpec Matcher for Checking Whether A Class Inherits From Another code 
  Faraz Yashar
• pluck_to_hash: Extend ActiveRecord's #pluck to Return a Hash code 
  Girish Sonawane