--- title: "#370: Ruby 2.5 Preview 1 Released" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 370 published_at: "2017-10-12" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/370" --- #370: Ruby 2.5 Preview 1 Released This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/370) Ruby WeeklyIssue 370 — October 12, 2017 Yui Naruse[Ruby 2.5 Preview 1 Released](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/10/10/ruby-2-5-0-preview1-released/)The first official preview release of 2.5 is here (fingers crossed for a final release at Christmas). Aaron Patterson[Unsafe Object Deserialization Vulnerability in RubyGems](http://blog.rubygems.org/2017/10/09/unsafe-object-deserialization-vulnerability.html)Read this for the full explanation of the problem and the very speedy fix. Tom Benner[ReportsKit: Add Reporting to Your Rails App in Minutes](https://www.reportskit.co/)A library for quickly adding interactive charts and tables for reporting purposes to a Rails app. DepfuSponsored[Spend less time updating your Rails app](https://depfu.com/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_campaign=primary&utm_content=lesstime)Depfu continuously updates your dependencies one gem at a time and creates a super nice pull request with all the info you need. You stay in control if and when to merge. [![Depfu\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/4473eddd.png)](https://depfu.com/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_campaign=primary&utm_content=lesstime) Luca Guidi[Introducing hanami-cli: A New Framework for Command Line Tools](https://lucaguidi.com/2017/10/10/introducing-hanami-cli/)hanami-cli is a gem for creating command line applications that support subcommands and extensibility. The Hanami project has replaced [Thor](https://github.com/erikhuda/thor) with this. ruby-lang.org[Top-Level Constant Lookup Removed in Ruby 2.5](https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11547)Previously, if you referenced a constant in a scope that didn’t have the constant, Ruby would confusingly look for a top-level constant with the same name. No more. Alessandro Minali[Monkey Patching in Ruby: A Real World Example](https://alessandrominali.github.io/monkey_patching_real_example)How some folks working on [Surrealist](https://github.com/nesaulov/surrealist) (a PORO to JSON serialization library) answered the question “To Monkey Patch or Not To Monkey Patch?” Jason Charnes[Organizing My First Conference: Southeast Ruby](https://jasoncharnes.com/organizing-southeast-ruby/)Organizing a conference is a mix of joy, sweat, and fear. Here is an in-depth look at what it took for Southeast Ruby. 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