--- title: "An overview of Ruby GUI development in 2018" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 390 published_at: "2018-03-15" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/390" --- An overview of Ruby GUI development in 2018 This week's Ruby and Rails news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://rubyweekly.com/issues/390) Ruby WeeklyIssue 390 — March 15, 2018 Olivier Lacan[Why Won't Bundle Update?](https://olivierlacan.com/posts/why-wont-bundle-update/)If you’ve ever seen a notice like _“Bundler attempted to update nokogiri but its version stayed the same”_ and struggled to work out why, this interesting dig into Bundler is a worthwhile read. Satoshi Tagomori[Deferral: Go-Style 'defer' for Ruby](https://github.com/tagomoris/deferral)An proof-of-concept Ruby implementation of Go’s `defer`, a way to ensure certain things occur upon the conclusion of a method (such as closing files). 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