Issue 332 — January 19, 2017
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Marko Ćilimković
“Is Ruby dead?” asks Marko, and the answer is no. While the number of new projects is going down, downloads are stable or growing.
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Phusion Blog
Passenger 5 has had a huge impact on serving up Ruby webapps to the world. 5.1 introduces protection from response body processing crashes, daily security check updates, increased concurrency, and a lot more.
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Chris Seaton
A detailed update of where Truffle+JRuby (a fast, dynamically compiled Ruby implementation) is and its future as TruffleRuby. Soon, Truffle hopes to handle C extensions and potentially not even require a JVM.
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Patrick Bacon
One-liners can be piped into the ‘heroku run console’ command, but what about longer scripts you want to execute in a remote Heroku environment?
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Starr Horne
You may have never used Ruby’s triple-equals operator. But understanding it is key to unlocking the hidden power of ‘case’, ‘rescue’ and other Ruby features.
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Heidar Bernhardsson
Capybara is an acceptance test framework for webapps. Learn how to use it with Minitest for integration testing of your Rails apps.
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Jim Gay
Jim looks at making decisions about background processing without rearranging your code.
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Kacper Walanus
The story of a massive bug in a common Ruby encryption gem (aes), how it happened, and what’s being done about it.
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Jobs
In brief
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