Ruby Weekly
Issue 247 — May 21, 2015
Fernando Villalobos
React is currently one of the most popular “JavaScript frameworks” (though really it’s principally a UI library). This extensive tutorial demonstrates how to bring React together with a Rails app.


The New Stack
Features various insights (both in audio interview and written form) from SoundCloud developer Erik Michaels-Ober.


Yorick Peterse
Doesn’t require libxml but has a small native extension for performance (C by default, Java for JRuby).


Mailgun  Sponsored
RESTful API abstracts away the messy details of sending transactional or bulk email. No gem installation required. The first 10,000 emails are free each month. Try Mailgun now.

Mailgun

Giles Bowkett
Giles Bowkett is back with an interesting critique of Rails’ 'strong_parameters'.


Christian Vuerings
A look at tools that improve the connections between Angular and Rails.


Fabio Akita
A look at a few techniques for adding caching related improvements to a Passenger-hosted Rails app.


Kasper Timm Hansen
A member of the Rails core team explains how they’re making collection rendering faster in Rails 5.


Jobs

In brief