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Fabio Akita
 Many people are worried about the current state of Rails with some choosing to leave the Ruby community altogether. Are these concerns something you should also worry about? A response to Piotr Solnica’s My Time with Rails is Up  which has attracted a lot of attention this week.
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Idiosyncratic Ruby
 Ruby’s sprintfprovides a powerful alternative to typical string interpolation. See a wide variety of examples here. 
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David Heinemeier Hansson
 A short essay by DHH: “Ruby includes a lot of sharp knives in its drawer of features. Not by accident, but by design.” 
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RedisGreen  Sponsored
 RedisGreen builds a map of your Redis memory usage, tracking the size of keys over time, helping you track down problems and gain new insights. 
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Hristo Georgiev
 A look at how the experience compares with using React and Angular 2 on the front end of Rails apps. 
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RubyGems Blog
 If you want to help out, Nick Quaranto presents a few ideas for pushing the official gems repository, RubyGems.org, into “a better place for the rest of 2016.” 
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Jacob Bednarz
 A look at tracking down and fixing some issues in libxml-rubythat were causing segfaults due to an interesting edge case. 
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Mike Perham
 “It’s not well known but with Rubygems and Bundler, you can distribute access-controlled commercial Rubygems.” 
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