Ruby Weekly
Issue 339 — March 9, 2017
Thijs Cadier
How to create a chat server with a master process that manages many workers.


Thiago Silva
Are attribute reader methods necessary? When does Ruby convert a block to a proc? Is extracting methods OK? The author wants to ‘debunk some popular Ruby idioms’.


Kevin Deisz
The story of building an ODBC ActiveRecord adapter from the ground-up that highlights AR extension points and some pros and cons of Ruby.


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Richard Schneeman
It has to do with how the Gemfile and Gemfile.lock store the Ruby version.


Starr Horne
Unicode Normalization is an important and not well-understood topic. This post introduces the subject and why you should know about it.


Chirag Shah
Tired of mapping chomp over a file’s lines to remove newlines? Ruby 2.4 presents an alternative.


Barrett Clark
A talk from RubyConf AU 2017 that focuses on Postgres-oriented tips and tricks, including PostGIS and EXPLAIN PLAN.


PackageCloud
A look at how system calls can affect performance, including a Ruby example that gets 40% better performance when Ruby is configured slightly differently.


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