--- title: "This week's Ruby news, issue 282" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 282 published_at: "2016-01-28" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/282" --- This week's Ruby news, issue 282 This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/282) Ruby WeeklyIssue 282 — January 28, 2016 Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson[Numerous Vulnerabilities = Many Rails Releases This Week](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2016/1/25/Rails-5-0-0-beta1-1-4-2-5-1-4-1-14-1-3-2-22-1-and-rails-html-sanitizer-1-0-3-have-been-released/)Rails 5.0.0.beta1.1, 4.2.5.1, 4.1.14.1, 3.2.22.1, and rails-html-sanitizer 1.0.3 have been released in response to several recently disclosed vulnerabilities. Santiago Pastorino[Upgrading to Rails 5.0](https://wyeworks.com/blog/2016/1/26/upgrading-to-ruby-on-rails-5-0/)“In this post, we’re going to upgrade a Rails 4.2.5 application to Rails 5.0.0.beta1.1.” Very useful stuff from a member of the Rails Core team. HerokuSponsored[What’s new in Ruby 2.3 with Matz](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/12/25/ruby-2-3-0-on-heroku-with-matz?c=70130000000NYVBAA4&utm_campaign=Display%20-%20Endemic%20- Cooper%20- Ruby%20-%20Blog%20-%20Drop1&utm_medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_content=blog&utm_term=ruby)Explore Ruby 2.3 and beyond with Ruby creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto. Learn about some of the most useful new features like the lonely operator, dig method more. [Try out the new release and take advantage of the latest features on Heroku.](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/12/25/ruby-2-3-0-on-heroku-with-matz?c=70130000000NYVBAA4=Display%20-%20Endemic%20-Cooper%20-%20Ruby%20-%20Blog%20-%20Drop1=display=cooperpress=blog=ruby) [![Heroku\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/fffac151.png)](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/12/25/ruby-2-3-0-on-heroku-with-matz?c=70130000000NYVBAA4&utm_campaign=Display%20-%20Endemic%20- Cooper%20- Ruby%20-%20Blog%20-%20Drop1&utm_medium=display&utm_source=cooperpress&utm_content=blog&utm_term=ruby) D.E. Akers[Viva: Play with Ruby's Virtual Variable API from Ruby Code](https://github.com/0x0dea/viva)One of those ‘fun but really not for production’ Ruby experiments we see so few of nowadays. Joey Schoblaska[Building A Chess Server in Rails 5 with ActionCable](http://jargon.io/joeyschoblaska/rails-5-chess-with-action-cable-websockets)A quick look at building a live updating/real-time Chess game on top of Rails 5 and ActionCable. Phil Nash[Two Factor Authentication in Rails 4 with Devise and Authy](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2016/01/two-factor-authentication-in-rails-4-with-devise-authy-and-puppies.html)Two factor authentication keeps your users’ accounts secure by requiring a second factor of authentication (e.g. a phone). [Authy](https://www.twilio.com/authy) is a Twilio service that provides two factor authentication as an API. Eliot Sykes[Run bundler-audit Regularly on Your Apps with Rake](https://eliotsykes.com/bundler-audit)Run bundler-audit regularly to be alerted of known vulnerabilities in your dependencies. 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Indeed Prime opens the door to exciting career opportunities with one simple application. Join today. Indeed In brief - ['We will set up some form of CoC (for Ruby) in the future.'](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004#note-450?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news Matz - [Lotus is now Hanami](http://hanamirb.org/blog/2016/01/22/lotus-is-now-hanami.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news Hanami, previously Lotus, is an interesting performance-oriented Web framework. It now has [a new homepage](http://hanamirb.org/) too. Luca Guidi - [Solving Backwards Compatibility in Ruby with A Proxy Object](http://brandonhilkert.com/blog/solving-backwards-compatibility-in-ruby-with-a-proxy-object/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Brandon Hilkert - [How Module#prepend Works, With A Practical Example](http://masa331.github.io/2016/01/26/module-prepend-use-case.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Premysl Donat - [Upgrading to Rails 5 Beta - The Hard Way](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2016/1/22/rails-5-beta-upgrade?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Richard Schneeman - [Stubbing External Services in Rails](https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/stubbing-external-services-in-rails?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ilija Eftimov - [How to Write A Simple Web Crawler in Ruby - Revisited](https://rossta.net/blog/how-to-write-a-simple-web-crawler-in-ruby-revisited.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ross Kaffenberger - [Ruby Private Class Methods](http://jakeyesbeck.com/2016/01/24/ruby-private-class-methods/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jake Yesbeck - [Functional Aspects of Ruby](https://joinhandshake.com/engineering/2016/01/22/functional-aspects-of-ruby.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Brandon Gafford - [Creating A Safe Filename Sanitization Function](http://gavinmiller.io/2016/creating-a-secure-sanitization-function/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Gavin Miller - [Ruby Marshalling from A to Z](http://ilyabylich.svbtle.com/ruby-marshalling-from-a-to-z?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ilya Bylich - [A 6 Minute Guide to Keyword Arguments in Ruby 2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Q6Of_mScI) video Peter Cooper - [Is Ruby 2.3 Faster? Nested Iterator Performance](http://ruby-performance-book.com/blog/2016/01/is-ruby-2-3-faster-nested-iterator-performance.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Alexander Dymo - [Airbrake: Best Ruby bug capturing tool](https://airbrake.io?ajs_event=Followed%20Campaign%20URL&ajs_prop_campaign_source=Cooperpress&ajs_prop_newsletter=Ruby-Weekly-January) tools Airbrake makes bug capturing automatic, quick easy. Start your 30 day free trial now. Airbrake.ioSponsored - [22 Vim Plugins Every (Ruby) Developer Should Use](https://need.computer/2016/01/21/22-vim-plugins-every-ruby-developer-should-use.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tools From plugin managers and status bars to commenting tools and Capybara snippets. Aleks - [Flammarion: A Simple GUI Toolkit for Ruby](http://zachcapalbo.com/projects/flammarion.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Uses WebSockets and a Chrome or Electron instance to do the rendering. Zach Capalbo - [A Bash Function to Open the Latest ActiveRecord Migration](http://solidfoundationwebdev.com/blog/posts/create-an-bash-function-to-open-latest-active-record-migration?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code Weston Ganger - [Worldize: Simple Coloured Countries/World Map Drawing](https://github.com/zverok/worldize?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code Victor Shepelev - [Scenic: Versioned Database Views for Rails](https://github.com/thoughtbot/scenic?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code thoughtbot, inc. - [telegram-bot-ruby: Ruby Wrapper for Telegram's Bot API](https://github.com/atipugin/telegram-bot-ruby?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code Alexander Tipugin - [AppSignal, because devs deserve waffles](https://appsignal.com/for/waffles/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=devs_deserve_waffles&utm_campaign=282) tools Whether you're in Austin or Zimbabwe: send us data, we send stroopwafels. Monitoring never tasted this good. 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