--- title: "#387: Ruby turns 25" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 387 published_at: "2018-02-22" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/387" --- #387: Ruby turns 25 This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/387) Ruby WeeklyIssue 387 — February 22, 2018 Dave Thomas[Happy 25th Birthday, Ruby](https://github.com/ruby-no-kai/ruby25/blob/master/dave_thomas.en.md)Rubyists have been leaving messages for Ruby 25th anniversary, being celebrated at [an event in Japan](http://25.ruby.or.jp/) this weekend. There’s also an entire hashtag, #ruby25th, on Twitter [packed with messages](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ruby25th?src=hash) including from folks like [Aaron Patterson](https://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/966114282420150276), [DHH](https://twitter.com/dhh/status/966423421008556032) and [Chad Fowler](https://twitter.com/chadfowler/status/966468143148355584). k0kubun[The Method JIT Compiler for Ruby 2.6](https://medium.com/@k0kubun/the-method-jit-compiler-for-ruby-2-6-388ee0989c13)We’ve linked to some articles about the promising new ‘MJIT’ compiler recently, but here’s an update directly from the engineer working on it along with some history and benchmarks. reinteractiveSponsored[We’ve Solved the Problems of ROR Operations](https://goo.gl/jhkBJ1)Our out-source DevOps solves the problems associated with ROR development. Plus our blue/green pre-baked deployment process means that you can deploy your app as often as you want. Get started today – start enjoying OpsCare. 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Sam Saffron[Reducing String Duplication in Ruby](https://samsaffron.com/archive/2018/02/16/reducing-string-duplication-in-ruby)_“It is very likely your Rails application is full of duplicate strings, here are some tricks you can use to get rid of them.”_ ruby-lang[Multiple Vulnerabilities in RubyGems](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/02/17/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-rubygems/)[2.7.6](https://blog.rubygems.org/2018/02/15/2.7.6-released.html) has been released to tackle several security issues. Time to `gem update --system`. Igor Kasyanchuk[LogAnalyzer: A Rails Logs Analyzer Tool](https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/log_analyzer)Get a picture of how fast (and how often) your views are rendering. Jobs - [Full Stack Engineer - (Paris, France)](https://en.drivy.com/jobs/aee2a31d-e470-4cfb-b3e8-4031c861444e?lever-source=rubyweekly)Come and join Europe’s #1 carsharing service, opening cars with smartphones. With almost 2M users in 6 countries, we’re looking to grow even more. 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Chris Blunt - [How to Use Query Objects to Refactor Rails SQL Queries](https://mkdev.me/en/posts/how-to-use-query-objects-to-refactor-rails-sql-queries?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Ivan Shamatov - [Deploying a Faktory Worker to AWS Fargate](http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2018/02/20/deploying-a-faktory-worker-to-aws-fargate?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Derek Haynes - [Syntactic Sugar Methods in Ruby](https://blog.appsignal.com/2018/02/20/ruby-magic-syntactic-sugar-methods.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Tom de Bruijn - [Ruby String Literals vs Value Objects - Overengineering?](http://jetrockets.pro/blog/ruby-string-literals-vs-value-objects-overengineering?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Igor Alexandrov - [Rails 5.2 Supports Specifying Default Value for a class_attribute](https://blog.bigbinary.com/2018/02/21/rails-5-2-supports-specifying-default-value-for-a-class_attribute.html?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Vishal Telangre - [Four Continuous Delivery Metrics that Improve Your Pipeline](https://www.gocd.org/2018/01/31/continuous-delivery-metrics/?utm_campaign=cd_metrics_blog&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cooperess_ruby&utm_content=cd_metrics_blog&utm_term=) opinion GoCDSponsored - [What Does Object Orientation Afford?](https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2018/21/what-does-oo-afford?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Sandi Metz - [Dig Deeper with Pry: Explore Ruby Internals](https://medium.com/@jrmair/dig-deeper-with-pry-introducing-cruby-source-browsing-702cb8358690?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_medium=email) tools TL;DR — you can now view the source for C identifiers in Pry. 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