Ruby Weekly Issue 333: January 26, 2017

Ruby Weekly

Issue 333 — January 26, 2017

PragTob

Benchmarking MRI vs. Rubinius vs. JRuby vs. Truffleruby

A year on from running the same benchmark, we find JRuby and Truffleruby leaving MRI far behind performance-wise. YMMV, of course.

David Heinemeier Hansson

DHH on Why Rails is Still Worth Learning in 2017

Just one answer from an epic Quora session where DHH shared his opinions on JavaScript, performance, and Elixir and Phoenix.

Kate Studwell

Building A Rails 'Macroservice' with RabbitMQ and Sneakers

How Adwerx broke a monolith into services without breaking existing functionality.

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Thomas Leitner

HexaPDF 0.3.0: PDF Creation and Manipulation from Ruby

Create PDFs from scratch or manipulate existing ones. 0.3.0 brings TrueType font subsetting to the table.

Jeff Kreeftmeijer

Building A Ruby HTTP Server, Part 2: Running A Rails App

In part one you build an HTTP server from scratch. Now, extending it to serve up a Rails app.

Andy Barnov

Build a Facebook Messenger Bot with Sinatra

A three-part series (part 2, part3) including deployment to Heroku.

Roberto Romero

offline-geocoder: Fast Reverse Geocoding with a Local DB

A potential solution if you want fast, rough and ready geocoding with no external calls. It includes a dataset of over 120,000 cities across the world.

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In brief

Shopify Is Now On Rails 5.0 news
The numbers in that ‘rails stats’ table are absolutely epic :-)
Tobi Lütke
Rails Camp USA West Coast 2017 news
Tickets available for the camp taking place in Colorado later this year (September 1-4).
Rails Camp
Passenger 5.1.2: Minor Fixes + Homebrew Tap for MacOS news
Phusion
Ruby 2.4 Packages Available for Ubuntu news
Put together by Brightbox, as always.
John Leach
[eBook] Best Practices for Architecting Highly Monitorable Applications
Monitoring is highly important in running apps at scale. Apply best practices from this book to avoid pitfalls.
VividCortex Sponsored
Testing Current and Historical Rails Apps with Docker tutorial
Taylor Jones
The Difference Between to_s and to_str tutorial
You may have thought they were implicitly the same, but this post explicitly demonstrates otherwise.
Marc G Gauthier
What HTTP/2 Means for Ruby Developers tutorial
A year old, but worth reflecting on.
Nate Berkopec
Roll Your Own FormBuilder in Rails tutorial
Samuel Mullen
Rails-Like Exception Handling with ActiveSupport::Rescuable tutorial
Andrey Koleshko
Bundler and Gemfile Best Practices tutorial
Florian Munz
Start Your SEO Right with Sitemaps on Rails tutorial
Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski
Life After Nil: Looking at Haskell's Type System from Ruby video
Sam Jones
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Swot: Identify Emails/Domains That Belong to Academic Institutions code
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Lee Reilly
Drawers 1.0: Group A Rails App's Classes Into Directories code
Reorganize your app’s file structure as you see fit.
L. Preston Sego III
How Can Phusion's Hongli Help Solve Your Deployment Challenges?
Hongli Lai, of the Passenger core team, seeks your questions.
Hongli Lai
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