#429 — December 13, 2018 |
Ruby Weekly |
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Ruby 2.6.0 Release Candidate 1 Released — Things are looking good for Ruby 2.6’s eventual final release on Christmas Day. We’ve linked a lot of great Ruby 2.6 roundups recently, but now’s the time to finally get testing and playing if you haven’t yet. Yui Naruse |
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Running Sinatra Serverlessly on AWS Lambda — AWS Lambda now supports Ruby so people are beginning to explore the possibilities - here’s how to use Sinatra with it. Tomas Valent |
An In-Depth Look at Ruby's Exception System — Ruby's exception system is more powerful than many people realize. This book shows you how to get the most from it. Honeybadger sponsor |
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mruby 2.0.0 Released — mruby is a lightweight Ruby implementation designed for embedding or linking with other apps. New features include keyword arguments and argument deconstruction. mruby |
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A Java Developer Walks Into a Ruby Conference — Charles Nutter, maintainer of JRuby, received a Groundbreaker Award at Oracle Code One. Even with this award, I don’t think Charles gets enough credit. Alan Zeichick (Forbes) |
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PSA: Ruby 4.2.x Doesn't Work with Ruby 2.6 — Article is in Japanese but it’s as simple as the headline. Why? BigDecimal.new has been removed in Ruby 2.6. koicの日記 |
💻 Jobs |
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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. Sticker Mule |
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Senior/Lead Ruby on Rails Developer at Hint (Remote) — Do you enjoy debugging, killing tech-debt, and refactoring code? We’re seeking an experienced Ruby on Rails developer to join our team. Hint |
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Join Our Career Marketplace & Get Matched With A Job You Love — Through Hired, software engineers have transparency into salary offers, competing opportunities, and job details. Hired |
📘 Articles & Tutorials |
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▶ Building Generic Software — A talk from RubyConf that digs into the idea of building multiple APIs that each handle a smaller, more ‘generic’ part of a problem and then bringing them together. Chris Salzberg |
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How to Reduce Memory Usage by Tuning Greg Navis |
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Free eBook: Actionable Continuous Delivery Metrics — This eBook provides you insight into your CD pipeline & helps you to improve your CD process with metrics. GoCD sponsor |
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Juggling Chainsaws at Machu Picchu: Metaprogramming in Ruby — The chainsaw, in this case, is Tim Ash |
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The Science of Polymorphic Routes in Rails — If you’ve ever wondered why code like Ryan Bigg |
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▶ Writing Ruby Like It's 2018 — This is a neat 10 minute talk that covers a little Ruby history but ultimately urges us to try out new approaches and features that modern versions of Ruby enable. Joe Leo |
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Ruby Kafka Messaging App using Docker — How to run a Ruby app running in one container to Kafka running in another. If you’ve ever tried to Dockerize Kafka, you’ll appreciate this. Bala Paranj |
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How to Use The VCR Gem to Improve Your Testing Suite — Avoid issues with hammering external APIs during testing by recording and replaying what occurs using VCR. Jesus Castello |
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The Rails 5 Active Record Attributes API — The Attributes API allows you to cast attributes to both built-in and custom types. Abhay Nikam |
🔧 Code & Tools |
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Rack Middlewares That Have Saved Me Literally Hours of My Life Sam Phippen |
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JRuby Core Team |
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Scale Automatically and Release Faster with DigitalOcean Kubernetes DigitalOcean sponsor |
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WebMock: Stub and Set Expectations on HTTP Requests for Testing — Supports lots of HTTP libraries like Net::HTTP, Excon, the Bartosz Blimke |
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grpc_kit: A Kit for Creating GRPC Servers/Clients in Ruby Yuta Iwama |
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Displaying, Downloading and Streaming Files with Active Storage — “a quick’n’dirty cheat sheet for basic Active Storage actions” Josef Strzibny |
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Action Cable Client: A Ruby Client for Interacting with Action Cable — 3.0.1 supports reconnect. L. Preston Sego III |