--- title: "#344: The State of Ruby on Google Cloud Platform" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 344 published_at: "2017-04-13" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/344" --- #344: The State of Ruby on Google Cloud Platform This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/344) Ruby WeeklyIssue 344 — April 13, 2017 GitHub[GitHub::DS: Libraries for Working with SQL on top of ActiveRecord](https://github.com/github/github-ds)Used in production at GitHub, these libraries include a key/value data store mechanism for MySQL, an SQL builder, and a class to wrap results. Google Cloud Platform Blog[The State of Ruby on Google Cloud Platform](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/04/the-state-of-Ruby-on-Google-Cloud-Platform.html)Google tested the top 1000 gems to ensure the most popular dependencies would work. App Engine also obeys `.ruby-version` and supports all currently supported MRIs. Haseeb Qureshi['That Time I Had to Crack My Own Reddit Password'](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/the-time-i-had-to-crack-my-own-reddit-password-a6077c0a13b4)The tale of how a developer at Airbnb used Ruby to manipulate a site’s search feature to recover a lost password. BitlineSponsored[Secure, Affordable Image Processing](https://www.blitline.com/v3/home?ad=0)Enterprise level image processing for cheaper than you can do it yourself. Thumbnailing of any document types like MP4s, PDF, PSD, and even office documents. Companies have trusted Blitline for over 4 years now, try out a free Developer account. [![Bitline\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/6059ca86.png)](https://www.blitline.com/v3/home?ad=0) Richard Schneeman[Jumping Off The Ruby Memory Cliff](https://www.schneems.com/2017/04/12/jumping-off-the-memory-cliff/)How the shape of memory usage charts for your app can indicate how healthy things are under the hood. Tom Copeland[TracePoint and Array#size](https://thomasleecopeland.com/2017/04/05/tracepoint-and-array-size.html)A dive into the C internals of MRI to find out why one method fires a TracePoint event and others don’t. Ruby Rogues[A 50 Minute Chat About The Forthcoming Rails 5.1](https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/rails-5-1-0)It’s a huge update and Dave Kimura suspects Rails 5.1 could be a harder upgrade for existing apps that 5.0 was from 4.x. Jobs - [Sr. Backend-End Engineer — Ruby/Postgres/GraphQL (SF)](https://jobs.lever.co/quri/868cd237-6efb-4647-8b10-de30c99ccfe7?lever-origin=agency&lever-source%5B%5D=Cooper)We're looking for passionate software engineers. We enjoy clean code, good coverage, deploying often and working collaboratively. Quri - [Ruby on Rails Developer at X-Team (Remote)](https://x-team.com/ruby-on-rails-developer/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ruby-news-april-17)We seek a developer with extensive Ruby knowledge. 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