Ruby Weekly
Issue 340 — March 16, 2017
Chris Dillon
A use case for Crystal, including porting a Ruby script to a Crystal binary and publishing it via Homebrew.


Nate Berkopec
An in-depth explainer of all the statistics returned by GC.stat, such as garbage collection & heap slot counts.


Ruby Central
Clearing up how Ruby Central, RubyGems, and Ruby Together are funded, including sources and allocation.


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Nicolas Laurent
A three-post series that delves into linearization, blocks and procs, and scopes.


Andrew Powell-Morse
Another entry in Airbrake’s "Ruby Exception Handling" series, this one on EOFError. Here’s another on FiberError.


Nate Berkopec
Not a particularly techie story but lots of great insights that could benefit you if you want to tread a similar path.


Michael Cordell
The third installment of the series dives into how to find methods, even if they don’t exist.


Jobs

In brief