Ruby 2.6 Released — As is traditional, the latest major release of Ruby came out on Christmas Day. The much awaited 2.6 includes an initial implementation of a JIT compiler (which needs to be enabled manually), the then alias for yield_self, RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree, endless ranges, and a lot more (see next item).

Yui Naruse

The Changes in Ruby 2.6 — A comprehensive ‘changelog’ of what’s new in Ruby 2.6 (complete with examples for most items) if you want to really dig deep into the new release.

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Redis Data Types in 2019 — An overview of all data structures provided in the latest version of Redis

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The Timeline for the Release of Rails 6.0 — RailsConf is at the end of April, so that’s the target. Read on for the milestones between now and then. Since Rails 6 will only support Ruby 2.5+, you’re encouraged to get your code running on Ruby 2.5/2.6 first if you plan to upgrade Rails too.

David Heinemeier Hansson

Bundler 2.0 Released — Bundler now only supports Ruby 2.3+ and RubyGems 3+ and supports auto-switching between Bundler 1 and 2 depending on the lockfile (so both Bundler 1.x and 2.0 can be installed at once as needed).

Colby Swandale

The Top Ruby Weekly Links of 2018 — Our last issue was a round-up of 2018’s top Ruby news, but we’ve put them together on the Web too.

Chris Brandrick (Ruby Inside)

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Why RSpec Users Should Care About Rails System Tests — Why RSpec/Rails users should switch from feature tests to system tests.

Ross Kaffenberger

How to Use the AWS Secrets Manager in a Rails App

Anonoz Burps

How to Run Feature Specs Headlessly or Not Headlessly at Will

Jason Swett

A Weird and Wonderful Trip through Ruby’s Standard Library — Alex shares some of his favorite, but not commonly known, modules in Ruby, such as the Abbrev and English modules.

Alex Taylor

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Discussing Serverless Ruby on AWS Lambda with Alex Wood — Alex Wood, the creator of AWS Lambda’s Ruby runtime, joins the Ruby on Rails podcast to discuss the work involved.

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Ruby and AWS Lambda, Serverless BFFs? — AWS Lambda has now support for Ruby, let’s build a GraphQL API with it.

Oriol Gual

How I Organize My Vim Hotkeys — Not Ruby specific but you might find this useful if you’re a Vim user.

Sam Phippen

Testing Private Methods? — “why I think it’s useful for tests not to have any knowledge of a class’s private methods”

Jason Swett

RubyGems 3.0.2 Released — A minor bugfix update to 3.0 which came out in December.

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Rack::Component: Handle HTTP Requests with Modular, Memoizable Components — An interesting idea, clearly a little inspired by React.

Chris Frank

Smart Init: A Way to Eliminate Initializer Boilerplate Code — Provides a DSL to help you get rid of repetitive boilerplate code in your initialize methods.

Paweł Urbanek

Logster: Log Viewer UI and Framework for Rack — An embedded Ruby ‘exception reporting service’ admins can view on live sites.

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Jets: A Serverless Framework for Rubyists

Tung Nguyen

Jb: A Simple and Fast JSON API Template Engine for Rails

Akira Matsuda

Sinatra 2.0.5 Released — It’s not been a release heavy year for Sinatra, but the reliable webapp library continues to do its job perfectly.

Kunpei Sakai