Issue 274 — November 26, 2015
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YouTube
Amongst (many) other things about Ruby 3, Matz announced the ‘Ruby 3x3’ (@ 54:05), a goal for Ruby 3 to be three times faster than Ruby 2.
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SitePoint
In terms of internal comms, Cooper Press, like many companies, has gone Slack mad. It’s possible to write apps that you can interact with from Slack, and here’s a (very) basic intro to doing so with Ruby.
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Bloc IO Sponsored
Learn every component of an application: the database, server and client-side code, and front-end markup. Bloc is an immersive, outcome-oriented online program with 1-on-1 mentorship, learning by building real applications, and career support.
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Confreaks TV
If you didn’t make it to RubyConf this year, no problem. Confreaks has again done a great job of recording it and sharing the videos with us.
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Leigh Halliday
Structuring apps as small, interoperable ‘microservices’ seems to be all the rage right now. Rails apps tend to be bigger and more monolithic, but there are some ways to introduce service oriented concepts in Rails.
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Aaron Patterson
At RubyConf, Aaron (tenderlove) Patterson looked at the process of compiling Ruby into the bytecode Ruby’s VM runs. This goes deep; you’re sure to learn something.
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Ilija Eftimov
A from-scratch guide to integrating Minitest into your Ruby project so you can reap the benefits of test-driven development.
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Jobs
In brief
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RailsConf 2016 Call for Proposals Open news
There’s no rush though, the CFP is open till mid January.
RailsConf 2016
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First Beta of ROM 1.0.0 Has Been Released news code
Piotr Solnica
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Free Webinar about Continuous Delivery with Containers news
Join Codeship's Nick Gauthier as he explains the goals of a Continuous Delivery system, what to look for, and why, at Codeship, they decided to go with a CD system built on top of Docker. Codeship Sponsored
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Testing Rails Background Workers tutorial
Chris Kottom
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Is It nil? tutorial
A quick look at how Object#nil? is implemented in MRI. It’s a beautifully minimalist solution.
Leigh Halliday
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Finding A Ruby Memory Leak Using Analysis Over Time tutorial
wvengen
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A Simple Feature Toggle for A Rails App tutorial
Szymon Fiedler
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Peeking Under the Hood of ActionController Parameters, Part 1 tutorial
Vaidehi Joshi
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Learn Concurrency by Implementing Futures in Ruby tutorial
SitePoint
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Inspecting Method Parameters in Ruby 2.2.3 tutorial
Ruby Plus
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How to Write Future-Proof Mocks in RSpec 3 tutorial
Jake Yesbeck
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How to Speed Up Querying for Autocomplete Fields with MongoDB tutorial
DRG CMS
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JRuby 9000 Is Out; Now What? video
Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter look at JRuby’s past, present and (promising) future.
YouTube
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Effective Ruby LiveLessons (Video Training) video news
Downloadable training aimed at Rubyists wanting to dig into a few detailed areas. It’s not cheap though :)
Sam Phippen
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A Guided Read of Minitest video
Nate Berkopec
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Fix bugs in production before your boss even notices. tools
We give you complete visibility into production problems the moment they happen, and the tools you need to fix them. Try exception, uptime and performance monitoring for free. Honeybadger.io Sponsored
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Rack::TestApp: An Intuitive Testing Helper Library for Rack Apps code
The creator boasts that it’s more intuitive than Rack::Test.
makoto kuwata
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skinny-controllers: Policies and Operations to Help Shrink Rails Controllers code
L. Preston Sego III
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LockAndCache: Lock and Cache using Redis code
Most caching libraries don’t lock, meaning 1 process can be calculating a cached value at the same time.
Seamus Abshere
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dry-validation: Data Validation Based on Predicate Logic and Rule Composition code
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