Rails 5.1 Released: The One Where We Embrace JavaScript — The final release of Rails 5.1 came at RailsConf last night. JavaScript has been embraced, there’s a new system tests feature, encrypted secrets, and more. To learn more, consider this screencast or maybe the full release notes.

Oj (Optimized JSON) 3.0 Released — The alternative C-based JSON encoding and decoding library is now fully compatible with Ruby 2.4’s ‘json’ gem and Rails 5.

Sidekiq 5.0 Released: Now Rails 5 Ready — The popular background job processing system is now Rails 5 native, supports right-to-left languages, better handles malformed job payloads, but Ruby 2.1 support has been dropped.

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Write Native Ruby Extensions 'Without Fear' — Lets you write Ruby classes in Rust without having to write the glue code yourself.

Bootsnap: Boot Large Ruby/Rails Apps Faster with Added Caching — Seems like the kind of thing that could work its way into Rails core.

Search and Autocomplete in Rails with Postgres — A walkthrough of setting up a search and autocomplete feature in a Rails 5 app using Postgres for its database.

A Ruby Shadowing Bug in The Wild — This example highlights why I take the possibly controversial approach of prefixing all internal object method calls with self.