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Issue 316 — September 22, 2016
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Leigh Halliday
A look at the options available in Ruby for dealing with HTTP and techniques for organizing the code and troubleshooting when things go wrong.
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Mike Perham
The changelog is here. A key improvement is on Rails 5+ you don’t need to restart Sidekiq to pick up changes to Sidekiq workers anymore.
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Koichi Sasada
We linked to ko1’s PDF slides 2 weeks ago, but now you can watch his 40 minute talk on a proposed ‘guilds’ concurrency mechanism for Ruby 3.
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Tom Copeland
Inspired by an upgrade to Rails 5, a look at some gems that rewrite Ruby code from one syntax to another.
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Phil Sturgeon
Differences between REST & RPC for APIs, along with use cases for each approach.
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Chris Oliver
A five-part screencast series (parts 2, 3, 4, 5) on building a Google Spreadsheets-type application with Rails, ActionCable, and RethinkDB.
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Jobs
In brief
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London Ruby Unconference Registration Now Open (Oct 22) news
London Ruby Unconference
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A Summary of RubyKaigi 2016 news
Ruby’s ‘home’ conference took place in Japan earlier this month.
Aaron Lasseigne
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A Review of Immutability in Ruby tutorial
The options available to Rubyists regarding immutability.
Tom Dalling
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How To Change the View Path of a Controller in Rails tutorial
Weston Ganger
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Delegation with BasicObject tutorial
Ray Zane
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Microservices using Rails, HTTP and RabbitMQ tutorial
Santosh Wadghule
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Fun with ObjectSpace: Memory and Aliased Methods tutorial
Count objects in memory, check the size of an object in memory, and find aliased methods.
Jesus Castello
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Speed Up Allocating ActiveRecord Objects with LightRecord tutorial
Pavel Evstigneev
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Some Notes on Using Interactors in Rails tutorial
Ivan Shamatov
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Better File Uploads with Shrine: Attachment tutorial
An overview of Shrine’s high-level interface for attaching uploaded files to model instances.
Janko Marohnić
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Track Rails Performance Issues with Skylight tutorial
An online tool for profiling Rails, Sinatra, and Grape apps.
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski
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JRuby 9000 Last Year, Today, and Tomorrow video
JRuby core team member Thomas Enebo talks about how JRuby’s latest release went and what the focus is for further improvements.
Thomas E Enebo
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Writing A Gameboy Emulator in Ruby video
Colby Swandale
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Ruby Facets: A New Mini Ruby News Podcast podcast
Oliver Lacan
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Efficient and Thread-Safe Objects for Dynamically-Typed Languages story
An academic paper looking at another possible approach for concurrency in Ruby, based on work with JRuby and Truffle, a language implementation framework.
Daloze, Marr, Bonetta, and Mössenböck
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Comparing wkhtmltopdf to Prawn for Generating PDF opinion
How the pure Ruby PDF generation library stacks up in terms of speed, memory and usability.
Josef Strzibny
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A Definition of Magic: Implicitness without Understanding? opinion
Tom Dalling
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Raising Errors is a Developer Feedback Mechanism opinion
Use exceptions, paired with TDD, to tell the developer what happened and what to fix.
Tom Dalling
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Array#collapse: A C Extension Alternative to flatten.compact or flatten.map code
Alex Moore-Niemi
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pgslice: Easy Postgres Partitioning code
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Andrew Kane
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Pageflow: Multimedia Story Telling for The Web code
Built around a Rails Engine
Codevise Solutions Limited
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