--- title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 264" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 264 published_at: "2015-09-17" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/264" --- This week's Ruby news, issue 264 This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/264) Ruby WeeklyIssue 264 — September 17, 2015 Owen Peredo Diaz[Camaleon: A Content Management System built on Rails 4](https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms)Has a bit of a WordPress feel to the admin system. There’s a ‘Deploy to Heroku’ button too if you want to give it a quick spin. Piotr Murach[pastel: Terminal Output Styling with an Intuitive API](https://github.com/peter-murach/pastel)Minimal and aimed to work in all terminal emulators. It doesn’t monkey patch the String class either. Callum Dryden[How to Debug Ruby Memory Issues](http://eng.rightscale.com/2015/09/16/how-to-debug-ruby-memory-issues.html)A look at monitoring runtime memory consumption and using GC settings (such as RUBY_GC_HEAP_INIT_SLOTS and RUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_MAX_SLOTS) to work on memory issues. CodeshipSponsored[Codeship opens invitations for its Docker Platform](http://beta.codeship.com/?utm_source=RubyWeekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=workflows)You now can request trial access to Codeship's new Docker Platform. It integrates perfectly with your existing Docker Workflows and helps you automate shipping of your Docker images. [![Codeship\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/913b4df7.png)](http://beta.codeship.com/?utm_source=RubyWeekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=workflows) Jamis Buck[The Little Things in Ruby: Heredocs](http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2015/9/12/little-things-heredocs.html)Heredocs make it possible to define multi-line strings cleanly using custom defined delimiters. Jamis takes a look at how they can be used in Ruby. Avdi Grimm[Hello, Crystal: A Compiled, Statically Typed Ruby Look-a-Like](http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/08/20/hello-crystal/)A quick example of Crystal, showing how similar its syntax is to Ruby. It’s an interesting new language that basically provides a Ruby-like syntax but that compiles down to native code. MightySignal[Slackiq: Send Info on Your Sidekiq Jobs to Slack](https://github.com/MightySignal/slackiq)A library that enables you to easily send information about your Sidekiq jobs to a channel on your team’s Slack. Dotan Nahum[Ruby and Go Sitting in a Tree](http://blog.paracode.com/2015/08/28/ruby-and-go-sitting-in-a-tree)A look at how to build a Ruby gem around a native extension written in Go, a possibility enabled by Go 1.5’s c-shared build mode. 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