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title: "Using SSL with Passenger in Development, A Flaky Test Story, and Ruby Prize 2016"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 308
published_at: "2016-07-28"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/308"
---

Using SSL with Passenger in Development, A Flaky Test Story, and Ruby Prize 2016

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Ruby WeeklyIssue 308 — July 28, 2016

Phusion[Using SSL with Passenger in Development on Mac OS X](https://blog.phusion.nl/2016/07/27/using-ssl-with-passenger-in-development-on-macos/)How to install and trust a self-signed certificate on your development server, and set up your DNS to redirect your dev traffic to your dev box.


Ivan Tse[How I Tracked Down a Flaky Test](http://dev.paperlesspost.com/how-i-tracked-down-a-flaky-test/397)If you like real world stories that could impact how you approach your own problems, this is a worthwhile read.


Ruby Association[Ruby Prize 2016 Nominations Now Open](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/07/25/ruby-prize-2016/)Each year the Ruby Association in Japan has an award for ‘new and outstanding’ members of the Ruby community. Matz [invites you](http://www.ruby.or.jp/en/news/20160725.html) to nominate people now.


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Ievgen Kuzminov[Ruby Web Dev The Other Way](http://rwdtow.stdout.in/)A wide ranging and opinionated list of technologies, resources, and ideas on alternative approaches for building web apps both with and without Rails.


Piotr Solnica[ROM (Ruby Object Mapper) 2.0.0 Released](http://rom-rb.org/blog/rom-2-0-0-released/)_“This release is a huge milestone for the project as its infrastructure is now complete - this means that all core APIs and high-level extensions are in place”_


Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas[RackToolkit: A Fast Server & DSL for Testing Rack Apps](http://rosenfeld.herokuapp.com/en/articles/ruby-rails/2016-07-27-introducing-racktoolkit-a-fast-server-and-dsl-designed-to-test-rack-apps)Pprovides a DSL to perform get and post requests and allows fast integration tests with automatic cookie-based session management. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/rosenfeld/rack_toolkit)


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In brief

- [WindyCityRails 2016: A Gathering in Chicago (September 15-16)](https://windycityrails.com/schedule/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news
- [Web Applications on Phusion Passenger Are Not Vulnerable to HTTPoxy](https://blog.phusion.nl/2016/07/21/web-applications-on-phusion-passenger-are-not-vulnerable-to-httpoxy/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news Phusion
- [Introducing 'assert_changes' and 'assert_no_changes' to Rails](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/25393?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news Genadi Samokovarov
- [Download free eBook: Why Containers and Docker are the Future](http://resources.codeship.com/ebooks/why-containers-and-docker-are-the-future?utm_source=rubyweeklysecondary) 
In this eBook we will have a look at the Traditional Stack, the Virtual Machine Stack and the Container Stack. CodeshipSponsored
- [Phases of Refactoring Complex Rails Apps](http://blog.arkency.com/2016/07/phases-of-refactoring-complex-rails-apps/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Marcin Grzywaczewski
- [Understanding a Fundamental Ruby Concurrency Abstraction](https://blog.codeship.com/understanding-fundamental-ruby-abstraction-concurrency/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial 
What is a thread pool, why it is useful and how can we implement our own? Ross Kaffenberger
- [Behind The Scenes: How Numbers Work in Ruby](http://www.blackbytes.info/2016/07/numbers-in-ruby/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Jesus Castello
- [Uploading Files in Rails Using Paperclip and Active Admin](https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/07/23/file-upload-active-admin-paperclip/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Matt Rozema
- [Rbenv: How It Works](https://medium.com/@Sudhagar/rbenv-how-it-works-e5a0e4fa6e76?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial 
Subtitled: _“Dealing with rbenv errors without Google or Stack Overflow”_ Sudhagar
- [How to Manage Campaign Monitor Lists with Ruby](http://readysteadycode.com/howto-manage-campaign-monitor-lists-with-ruby?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial 
Campaign Monitor is a hosted email sending service. Ready Steady Code
- [How We Integrate React with Rails to Build A Powerful UX](https://medium.com/@yoniweisbrod/how-we-integrate-react-with-rails-at-ivy-b90f27751a00?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) story Yoni Weisbrod
- [A Writeup of the Brighton Ruby 2016 Experience](http://tosbourn.com/brighton-ruby/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) story 
The caliber of talks and speakers was very high. Toby Osbourn
- [Consider Turbolinks 5 for Your Next Rails Project](http://aspiringwebdev.com/consider-turbolinks-5-for-your-next-rails-project/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Corey Martin
- [Why You Shouldn't Roll Your Own Authentication in Rails](https://blog.codeship.com/why-you-shouldnt-roll-your-own-authentication/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Sid Krishnan
- [LetsEncrypt Heroku: Bring SSL to Any Heroku App in Minutes](https://github.com/substrakt/letsencrypt-heroku?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tools 
Bills itself as alpha software so YMMV. Substrakt
- [Stop Ops from Eating up Your Precious Dev Time for Good](https://www.reinteractive.net/service/ops-care?sid=87) 
OpsCare® provides fixed price, monthly Operations as a Service for your Rails app, letting you get on with building features instead of worrying about your servers. ReinteractiveSponsored
- [MiniStatsD: A Simple StatsD Client in Ruby](https://medium.com/@igor_marques/ministatsd-a-simple-statsd-client-in-ruby-4b28b4237171?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code Igor Marques da Silva
- [PureCDB: A Pure Ruby CDB Reader/Writer with 64 Bit Extensions](https://github.com/hokstadconsulting/purecdb?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code 
[cdb](http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html) is a database format. Hokstad Consulting Ltd
- [Hanami v0.8.0 Released](http://hanamirb.org/blog/2016/07/22/announcing-hanami-080.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code Luca Guidi
- [Rack Web Console: A Web Console for Rack Apps](https://github.com/rosenfeld/rack_web_console?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code 
Why let Rails have all the fun? Bring a Web console to any Rack app. Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
- [FFI::Mmap: Ruby FFI-based Mmap Interface](https://github.com/hokstadconsulting/ffi-mmap?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code 
Disclaimer: It’s still early days. Hokstad Consulting Ltd
- [spec_object: A DSL for Describing the Behavior of Objects](https://danielwaterworth.github.io/posts/introducing-spec_object?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code tutorial Daniel Waterworth
- [PushType: A Modern Open Source CMS for Rails](http://www.pushtype.org/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code 
A good looking, modern CMS, Check the screenshots on [the GitHub repo.](https://github.com/pushtype/push_type) Push Code
- [Action Cable Extracted From Rails 5 and Packaged as a Node.js Module](https://github.com/tomchinery/action-cable-node?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) code Tom Chinery

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