Ruby Weekly
Issue 280 — January 14, 2016
Daniel P. Clark
A fun grab bag of interesting things (and their usage) in Ruby, from Hash#invert and IRB’s _ to unary operators and aliases. How many do you already know?


Ben Halpern
A brief interview with DHH about Rails’ position in the world of frameworks, Rails 5’s new features, and what other programming ideas are on his radar.


RailsConf 2016
Get in before midnight Central on January 15. The event takes place in Kansas City this May 4-6.


Reinteractive  Sponsored
We’ll handle them for you! CodeCare is reinteractive's fixed price, month-to-month Ruby on Rails app maintenance service. Sign up for ongoing upgrades and improvements today.

Reinteractive

Nate Berkopec
While full support for HTTP/2 in Ruby web frameworks is still a way off, you can still benefit from it and it’s worthwhile learning what’s coming in the future anyway.


Syed Humza Shah
An interesting look at how two seemingly equivalent pieces of code do not compile to the same thing internally.


Nick Janetakis
Read about the advantages of using Docker and learn how to build and dockerize a Ruby on Rails application that uses PostgreSQL, Redis and Sidekiq.


John Leach
Brightbox has again created some handy Ubuntu packages for the latest version of Ruby.


Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski
A complete introduction to oPRO (OAuth PROvider), a Rails engine from Richard Schneeman that lets you quickly build your own authentication provider.


Jobs

  • Rails Engineer at StatusPage.io (Denver, CO)Come help build the platform powering status pages for many of the companies you know and love. Twilio, New Relic, Fastly, and Bitbucket all use and love our product. StatusPage is bootstrapped, profitable, and built for sustainability. StatusPage.io
  • Backend Developer at Siteleaf (New York)Love Ruby, Jekyll, GitHub? Join the tight-knit team at Siteleaf and help us build the future of static websites. oak.is
  • Get 10 offers from top tech companies in one week.Indeed Prime is an elite new program from Indeed.com that presents in-demand tech talent like you to top employers. Indeed Prime opens the door to exciting career opportunities with one simple application. Join today.  Indeed

In brief