Ruby Weekly
Issue 295 — April 28, 2016
nagachika
A very wide variety of minor bugfixes - no security issues, however.


Ross Kaffenberger
A look at using the bundle config command to develop against local gems instead of specifying a :path option in your Gemfile.


Tony Arcieri
“Unlike most Ruby HTTP clients which aim to provide a good API, it’s not built on top of Net::HTTP, but instead natively implements the HTTP protocol [..] This makes http.rb one of the fastest Ruby HTTP clients available.”


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Thredded
Sports a clean design and includes full-text search, email notifications, Markdown post formatting, a permissions system, and more.


Brandon Hilkert
An exploration of post-install messages, including what they are, how to set them up, when to use them, etc.


Daniel P. Clark
Updating a dynamic webpage using AJAX from Rails without using a JavaScript front-end framework.


Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski shows you how to speed up your app’s performance with various Rails-based caching techniques.


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