--- title: "Thanksgiving Week's Ruby news, issue 325" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 325 published_at: "2016-11-24" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/325" --- Thanksgiving Week's Ruby news, issue 325 This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/325) Ruby WeeklyIssue 325 — November 24, 2016 As it's Thanksgiving in the US this week, we're running a shorter issue than usual. If you're celebrating, we hope you have a good one. If you're stuck for anything to do, be sure to check out some of the great videos from Rubyconf 2016 (below) :-) Richard Schneeman[Writing a Core Rails Feature](http://www.schneems.com/2016/11/21/writing-a-rails-feature-blow-by-blow/)A thorough walkthrough from a member of the Rails committer team of building a new Rails feature over the course of a few weeks. Confreaks[67 Videos from Rubyconf 2016](https://confreaks.tv/events/rubyconf2016)Didn’t make it to Rubyconf? No problem. You can enjoy great stuff from [Matz’s keynote](https://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2016-opening-keynote) to talks about [OpenStruct](https://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2016-building-a-better-openstruct), [optimizing Ruby core](https://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2016-optimizing-ruby-core), and [color theory.](https://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2016-rainbows-color-theory-for-computers) ruby-lang.org[Ruby 2.3.3 Released: Fixes A Bug in 2.3.2](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/11/21/ruby-2-3-3-released/)If you upgraded to 2.3.2 last week, you definitely want 2.3.3 now as a bug was introduced in refinements and Module#prepend. ReinteractiveSponsored[Free Ruby on Rails Code Review by Industry Experts](https://reinteractive.net/services/free-code-review?sid=100)Trouble with an existing app? Contact us for a code review and get a report of our recommendations. Jump on it today, we can only accept a limited number of applications. [![Reinteractive\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/8967ba08.png)](https://reinteractive.net/services/free-code-review?sid=100) Ershad Kunnakkadan[Ruby 2.4 Introducing Liberal Parsing Option for Bad CSV Data](http://blog.bigbinary.com/2016/11/22/ruby-2-4-introduces-liberal_parsing-option-for-parsing-bad-csv-data.html)CSV input with unescaped quotes can now be parsed in Ruby 2.4 using a new option. Tom Dalling[Q&A With Piotr Solnica, Creator of ROM](http://www.rubypigeon.com/posts/questions-and-answers-with-piotr-solnica/)The creator of Ruby Object Mapper and founder of dry-rb sits down to discuss his approach to Ruby and the direction of the language. Nate Berkospec[An Update on Rubyconf 2016](https://www.speedshop.co/2016/11/17/rubyconf-2016-performance-update.html)A summary of what happened at Rubyconf this year, including JRuby+Truffle, coming optimizations, and guilds. In brief - [FOSDEM 2017 Ruby Devroom Call for Presentations Open](http://fosdem.rubybelgium.be/cfp.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news CFP ends early December and FOSDEM itself is on February 4-5 in Brussels. Ruby Belgium - [RailsConf 2017 CFP is Open](http://cfp.railsconf.com/events/railsconf2017?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news The event itself is in Phoenix, Arizona on April 25-17, 2017. RailsConf - [Pragmatic Programmers Doing 40% Thanksgiving Sale](https://media.pragprog.com/newsletters/2016-11-23.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) news Publishers of tons of great Ruby books (and more). The Pragmatic Bookshelf - [Simplify Complex Rails Apps with 'Operations'](https://bryanrite.com/simplifying-complex-rails-apps-with-operations/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Understand the roles and goals of using operations to make your apps maintainable. Bryan Rite - [Integrating Salesforce with Rails and Heroku Connect](https://www.reinteractive.net/posts/302-integrating-salesforce-with-rails-and-heroku-connect?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial ReinteractiveSponsored - [How to Integrate Google Calendar with a Rails App](http://readysteadycode.com/howto-integrate-google-calendar-with-rails?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ready Steady Code - [Handling Errors in an API the Rails Way](https://blog.rebased.pl/2016/11/07/api-error-handling.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Łukasz Sarnacki - [Five Trending Open Source Projects That Use Ruby](https://www.sitepoint.com/five-trending-open-source-projects-that-use-ruby/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ardian Haxha - [Adding Token-Based API Authentication to a Rails App](http://www.mccartie.com/2016/11/03/token-based-api-authentication.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Joe McCartie - [A Looks at Crystal: Macros and Concurrency](https://citizen428.net/a-rubyist-looks-at-crystal-part-2-396d10257b54?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Part two of the series on the compiled Ruby-esque language. 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