Ruby Weekly
Issue 374 — November 9, 2017
Ross Kaffenberger
A thorough writeup of what was involved and what was learnt by adopting the Webpacker system in an existing Rails 4.2 app.


Kickstarter
How Kickstarter prepared and executed the upgrade to Rails 5 on time and with minimal production interruptions.


Honeybadger  Sponsored
Exceptional creatures is a bestiary-style compendium of Ruby's exceptions, blending documentation with artwork reminiscent of _why's poignant guide.

Honeybadger

Morning Commute
A 30 minute interview in a car with Ruby’s creator, Matz, on Ruby’s history and looking forward to Ruby 3.0.


Filippos Vasilakis
When flamegraphs and other methods don’t lead to finding performance bugs, a metaprogramming approach may show the way.


Aaron Lasseigne
A response to Avdi Grimm’s Enough With the Service Objects Already post from last week.


Andrew Kane
Makes it easier to work with multiple databases on the same app.


Jobs

In brief