Ruby Weekly
Issue 336 — February 16, 2017
Tyler Lippert
A (complete) 4 part series that digs into Rack, how to use it to handle incoming requests, how to create a templating system, and then how to extract common code to build your own framework.


Starr Horne
A test of Unicode improvements in 2.4.0 and how they’ve affected everyday Ruby operations and methods.


Benjamin Curtis
A systemd-based script to run one Sidekiq process per core and watch memory consumption per process.


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Luca Guidi
Hanami is a modern Web framework for Ruby optimized for speed and security. This release marks a feature freeze and a stable API for 1.0.


Danny Whalen
An example of using approval tests to verify the SQL generated by an ORM and why you’d want to do that.


Aaron Patterson
A year old but I wanted to re-shine the spotlight on Aaron Patterson’s awesome post that showed off some great examples of the art of ‘puts’-based debugging.


Kevin Menard
An update on progress with TruffleRuby, a Graal and Truffle based Ruby implementation. Here we see how SubstrateVM (SVM), an AOT compiler, boosts startup times (Note: SVM is currently closed-source and can’t be used in production).


Francisco Temudo
A step-by-step guide setting up an architecture oriented around a broker with ZeroMQ handling the communications.


Jobs

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