--- title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 280" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 280 published_at: "2016-01-14" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/280" --- This week's Ruby news, issue 280 This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/280) Ruby WeeklyIssue 280 — January 14, 2016 Daniel P. Clark[101 Ruby Code Factoids](http://6ftdan.com/allyourdev/2016/01/13/101-ruby-code-factoids/)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[David Heinemeier Hansson on the Future of Rails](http://thepracticaldev.com/dhh-on-the-future-of-rails)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[RailsConf 2016 Call for Proposals Closes Tomorrow](http://rubycentral-cfp.herokuapp.com/events/railsconf2016)Get in before midnight Central on January 15. The event takes place in Kansas City this May 4-6. ReinteractiveSponsored[Don't Have Time for Small Improvements on Your Rails App?](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/code-care?sid=32)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.](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/code-care?sid=32) [![Reinteractive\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/6a711fe3.png)](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/code-care?sid=32) Nate Berkopec[What HTTP/2 Means for Ruby Developers](https://www.nateberkopec.com/2016/01/07/what-http2-means-for-ruby-developers.html)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['unless X' Is Processed Differently To 'if !X'](http://rorbservations.com/post/136816741674/rubys-unless-x-is-processed-differently)An interesting look at how two seemingly equivalent pieces of code do not compile to the same thing internally. Nick Janetakis[Dockerizing a Ruby on Rails Application](https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/dockerizing-a-ruby-on-rails-application)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[Ruby 2.3 Ubuntu Packages](https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2016/01/06/ruby-2-3-ubuntu-packages/)Brightbox has again created some handy Ubuntu packages for the latest version of Ruby. Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski[Authenticate All the Things with oPRO, the Basics](http://www.sitepoint.com/authenticate-all-the-things-with-opro-the-basics/)A complete introduction to oPRO (OAuth PROvider), a Rails engine from Richard Schneeman that lets you quickly build your own authentication provider. 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Indeed In brief - [RailsConf 2016 Call for Proposals Closes Tomorrow](http://rubycentral-cfp.herokuapp.com/events/railsconf2016?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news Get in before midnight Central on January 15. RailsConf 2016 - [Lotus v0.6.0 Released](http://lotusrb.org/blog/2016/01/12/announcing-lotus-060.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news code Luca Guidi - [Each Form Gets Its Own CSRF Token in Rails 5](http://blog.bigbinary.com/2016/01/11/per-form-csrf-token-in-rails-5.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news Prajakta Tambe - [Ruby Application Monitoring: Flexible Powerful](https://instrumentalapp.com/ruby-application-monitoring?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=monitor-next-feature) tools Monitor your next feature or project for just $15/mo. Compare to your current monitoring, free for 30 days. InstrumentalSponsored - [How I Test Rails Apps with MiniTest, Capybara, and Guard](https://medium.com/@heidar/how-i-test-rails-apps-with-minitest-capybara-and-guard-5e07a6856781?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Heidar - [How To Parallelize Ruby HTTP Requests](http://jakeyesbeck.com/2016/01/10/how-to-parallelize-ruby-http-requests/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jake Yesbeck - [How to Save Time Writing Model Tests with Shoulda Matchers](http://gorubyrails.com/blog/Model-tests-with-shoulda-matchers/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Grant Barry - [Refactoring in Ruby: The Right Place for A Builder?](http://eftimov.net/refactoring-builder-pattern/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ilija Eftimov - [Learn the First Best Practices for Rails and RSpec](http://www.sitepoint.com/learn-the-first-best-practices-for-rails-and-rspec/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kingsley Silas - [RubyFu: 'Where Ruby Goes Evil', A Ruby Book for Hackers](http://rubyfu.net/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Luckily there are many legitimate uses for the techniques outlined here. RubyFu - [A Basic Introduction to Memcached from Ruby](http://davidmles.com/blog/what-is-memcached/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial David Morales - [How Not to Lose the Database Logic in a Rails App](http://anadea.info/blog/sql-as-app-part?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Dmitriy Dordovskiy - [New Rails Security HTTP Headers](https://rorsecurity.info/portfolio/new-http-headers-for-more-security?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ruby on Rails Security Project - [Switching from Resque to ActiveJob](http://engineering.avvo.com/articles/switching-to-active-job.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial opinion Donald Plummer - [Lessons Learned from Building a Ruby Gem API](http://brandonhilkert.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-building-a-ruby-gem-api/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Brandon Hilkert - [Ruby's Object#tap: A Better Use](http://redningja.com/dev/rubys-object-tap-a-better-use/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Jared Ning - [Ideas for Improving the Ruby Language in 2016](http://www.sitepoint.com/ideas-improving-ruby-language-2016/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Glenn Goodrich - [When to Choose Elixir Over Ruby for Projects in 2016?](https://www.amberbit.com/blog/2015/12/22/when-choose-elixir-over-ruby-for-2016-projects/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion The Ruby-esque Erlang-based Elixir is getting a lot of attention in the Ruby community lately. AmberBit - [ROM (Ruby Object Mapper) 1.0.0 Released](http://rom-rb.org/blog/2016/01/06/rom-1-0-0-released/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code news A very long time in the making and a huge milestone for this great open-source persistence and mapping toolkit. Piotr Solnica - [Scenic: Versioned Database Views for Rails](https://robots.thoughtbot.com/announcing-scenic--versioned-database-views-for-rails?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code tutorial Scenic adds first class support for database views to ActiveRecord migrations. 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