Issue 386 — February 15, 2018
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Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson
An in-depth explanation of a patch to Ruby that both reduces memory and speeds up performance (with require going 35% faster).
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YouTube
The creator of Rails jumps back into screencasting with a look at how he works on Basecamp. There’s also a second episode where he looks at using callbacks to manage complexity.
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Bradley Price
Faktory, created by Sidekiq’s Mike Perham, is a new approach to running background jobs. This tutorial covers using it with Rails and deploying it to AWS’s new container deployment service.
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Noah Gibbs
Continuing this week’s posts on memory, a benchmark between different memory allocators.
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Alessandro Rodi
A migration guide for moving from Rails 5.1 with Sprockets to the new Wepbacker 3.0.
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Neven Rakonić
It’s no secret the Ruby ecosystem isn’t growing aggressively, but things continue to tick along nicely and “2017 was a good year for Ruby.”
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Jobs
In brief
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