--- title: "#372: Ten New Features in Ruby 2.5" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 372 published_at: "2017-10-26" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/372" --- #372: Ten New Features in Ruby 2.5 This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/372) Ruby WeeklyIssue 372 — October 26, 2017 RubyMine Blog[10 New Features in Ruby 2.5](https://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2017/10/10-new-features-in-ruby-2-5/)Bundler is now bundled with the standard library, backtraces are experimentally shown in reverse order, and more. Mike Perham[Introducing Faktory: A New Background Job System](http://www.mikeperham.com/2017/10/24/introducing-faktory/)Built by the creator of the successful Sidekiq background processing framework, Faktory aims to be more language agnostic, among other things. It has [an official Ruby client](https://github.com/contribsys/faktory_worker_ruby), naturally. CodeshipSponsored[Codeship Ranked Amongst Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendors by Forrester](https://codeship.com/forrester-wave-continuous-integration-report?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-ruby-weekly-primary&utm_campaign=forrester-wave-ci-report)Codeship ahead of IBM, AWS, Atlassian, and more. To be considered for Forrester’s report, companies needed to have a comprehensive CI product with a strong vision, more than 25 paying enterprise companies, and a strong product vision. [![Codeship\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/8c1f052f.png)](https://codeship.com/forrester-wave-continuous-integration-report?utm_source=email-sponsorship&utm_medium=cpc-ruby-weekly-primary&utm_campaign=forrester-wave-ci-report) Thoughtbot[FactoryGirl Has Been Renamed to FactoryBot](https://robots.thoughtbot.com/factory_bot)The popular library for defining objects during testing has renamed. This will require [some changes](https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/blob/4-9-0-stable/UPGRADE_FROM_FACTORY_GIRL.md) if you want to keep using new versions. Daniel P. Clark[Creating Configuration Objects in Ruby](https://blog.codeship.com/creating-configuration-objects-in-ruby/)Configuration layers and the methods for their storage can vary greatly. Here’s how to implement configuration objects in Ruby. Arkency Blog[Relative Testing vs Absolute Testing](http://blog.arkency.com/relative-testing-vs-absolute-testing/)A subtle mind shift that serves as another approach to making your tests resilient and complete. Tom Dalling[Replacing Mocks With Hand-Written Test Doubles](https://www.rubypigeon.com/posts/replacing-mocks-with-handwritten-test-doubles/)If you reach for mocks when needing to stub out methods on objects under test, a hand-written test double may be a much better fit. 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