Issue 287 — March 3, 2016
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Jerome Dalbert
Paraphrasing: “Whenever I have the inclination I want to add a method on a controller that’s not part of the default REST actions, I make a new controller.”
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Timcraft
A guide to accessing Amazon DynamoDB (AWS's NoSQL database service) with the official Ruby AWS SDK, including setting up credentials, creating tables, and adding, fetching and writing items.
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Riding Rails
They contain some important security fixes, so you’re encouraged to upgrade ASAP if you’re on 4.2, 4.1, or 3.2.
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Alexander Dymo
Alex concludes his Ruby 2.3 performance blog post series by concluding (spoiler) that 2.3 isn’t significantly faster overall, but there is an improvement.
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Molybdenum
It queries Wikipedia and grabs the data found on numerous ‘real world’ concepts. You can do things like Entity('Titanic (1997 film)').actors , for example.
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Ross Kaffenberger
Many popular gems use the concept of “pooling” to manage expensive resources. This post looks at why thread pools are useful and how to implement one yourself.
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