#403 — June 14, 2018

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Ruby Weekly

Ruby's External Malloc Problem — Discourse’s Sam Saffron explores a “severe, extremely hard to debug vector for memory bloat in Ruby which can be triggered by the PG (Postgres) gem”.

Sam Saffron

Improving Ruby Concurrency — Using Fibers and non-blocking operations, it’s possible to dramatically increase concurrency in Ruby without the overhead of multi-threaded programming.

Samuel Williams

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Arel with Wharel: Virtual Rows for Active RecordWharel is a 31-line gem adding syntactic sugar to ActiveRecord models using Arel, inspired by Sequel.

Chris Salzberg

From ActiveRecord to Diesel (and Rust) — Using new tools means learning new things, so Pat chose to use Rust and Diesel for a task that he could have easily done with ActiveRecord.

Pat Shaughnessy

Adding Automated Speech Recognition for Phone Calls to Rails — Your Rails app could easily become a voice assistant with machine learning tools.

Daniel Phillips (Twilio)

▶  On Building Your Own RSpec: A Chat with Paweł Dąbrowski

Ruby Rogues

Why Crystal Is My Next Language — This one comes from a Python developer who’s been flirting with Ruby but wants things like a single binary and better performance.

Fotis Gimian

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Sr. Fullstack Engineer (Remote) — Sticker Mule is looking for passionate developers to join our remote team. Come help us become the Internet’s best place to shop and work.

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📘 Tutorials

How to Write a Bundler Plugin — Add commands, handlers, or event-based callbacks to Bundler.

Samuel Giddins

Quick Tips for a Practical Rubocop WorkflowRubocop is a popular Ruby linting and code analysis tool.

Luca Guidi

How Drivy Uses Sidekiq Middleware — Drivvy needed to add some context data to their running jobs, so they used Sidekiq middleware, a carefully-managed “bad” practice, and some creativity.

Drivy Engineering

Webinar: Continuous Delivery with Docker, Kubernetes, and GoCD

GoCD sponsor

Simple Shortcuts to Get More Out of Bundler

Aaron Sumner

Using GraphQL with Rails

Vito Botta

Quick Tip: Use Beginnings and Ends of Strings in Regular Expressions — Be more secure with \A and \z when you really need to anchor to the start and end of strings.

Andy Croll

▶  How to Migrate from Heroku to Hatchbox.ioHatchbox is a (paid) tool that handles a lot of the ops around deploying Rails apps.

GoRails

🔧 Code & Tools

Host Git Repository Servers w/ DigitalOcean’s One-Click GitLab App — Save up to 55 percent by deploying GitLab on DigitalOcean. Get started today in as little as a few minutes.

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Sho: An Experimental 'Post-Framework' View Library — An experiment to provide a view layer that is ‘just Ruby’.

Victor Shepelev

Passenger 5.3.2: A Security Fix Release

Phusion Blog

Sinatra 2.0.2 and 2.0.3 Released

Kunpei Sakai

Wallaby: A Rails Engine for Managing Data/Admin Interface — A customizable Rails engine that allows you to manage data.

reInteractive