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Issue 251 — June 18, 2015
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Riding Rails
Each contains fixes for some recently discovered vulnerabilities. An interesting side benefit is Rails 3.2.22 now means Rails 3.2 supports Ruby 2.2 for the first time.
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Darko Gjorgjievski
A variety of principles of error handling in Ruby, including things like cleaning up before exiting, error logging, never rescuing Exception, and alternatives to raising exceptions.
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Nikolay Nemshilov
A fun, well-recorded 25 minute look at making a Street Fighter clone in Ruby using the Gosu 2D game development library.
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YouTube
Ruby’s creator covers the history and background to Ruby’s design before moving on to Ruby’s future beyond the Web and a look at Streem, a new language built by Matz to experiment with future Ruby concurrency models.
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Starr Horne
A quick look at some properties of Ruby’s lambdas (versus blocks and procs).
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Jorge Bejar
The ‘Rails API’ project, which makes it easy to create API-only projects in Rails, is becoming a core part of Rails in version 5. How will it work?
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SitePoint
Rails 5 isn’t too far away and Vasu K quickly covers what we should expect to see from it. One key point is Rails 5 will only work on Ruby 2.2.1 and above which may present challenges for upgraders.
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Jobs In brief - Ruby for Good: A Community Hackathon Conference (July 31, Northern Virginia) news
An all inclusive hack event where Rubyists contribute to charities, non-profits, open source and other good causes.
Ruby for Good - Avoid Race Conditions in Rails with Postgres Locks tutorial
Leigh Halliday - Understanding the rails-jquery CSRF Vulnerability (CVE-2015-1840) tutorial
A look at a vulnerability in rails-jquery that can expose CSRF tokens.
Starr Horne - Rack: First Principles tutorial
Most Ruby webapps (including those on Rails) use Rack at some level. If you’re not familiar with what Rack is or what it does, this is a quick primer.
Ilija Eftimov - Splat Goes Ruby tutorial
A look at the role of the ‘splat’ (*) in Ruby through several quick examples.
Kasper Timm Hansen - 3 Steps to Share A Session Between Rails 3 and Rails 4 Apps tutorial
Egor Vorobiev - Julia for Rubyists: Crunch Those Numbers tutorial
Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language commonly used in scientific and math domains.
SitePoint - How to Setup Vagrant for Rails Development tutorial video
Both as a text tutorial and screencast.
Chris Oliver - RubyMotion: Cross-Platform Mobile Development the Right Way video
Laurent Sansonetti - Rails application.rb Recommendations opinion
Ernie Miller - Production-ready Redis with top-tier support, analytics, and Resque integration tools
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Mattia Astorino - http-dos-detector: Detect Huge Number of HTTP Requests on Apache and Nginx using mruby code
An interesting examples of a Ruby based Apache and nginx extension via mruby.
Ryosuke Matsumoto - csv-importer: CSV Import for Humans code
Aims to handle validations, column mapping, import and reporting.
Brewhouse - gem-compare: A RubyGems Plugin That Compares Versions of The Given Gem code tools
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