About Ruby Certification — Did you know that Ruby has an official certification provided by the Ruby Association (a Japanese organization chaired by Matz himself)? Here, a developer took the required test and shares his experience.

Nikita Misharin

Ruby 2.6.2 (and 2.5.4) Released — These releases (2.5.4 is here) are mostly due to the RubyGems security issues we mentioned last week.

Yui Naruse

Production-Quality Redis Hosting — Better tools, analytics and support for your high-performance Redis needs.

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Rubyfmt: An Autoformatter for Ruby Code — If you’ve used Go at all, you may be familiar with gofmt. This early stage project is an attempt at a similar sort of linter/formatter but for Ruby.

Sam Phippen

sqlite3-ruby 1.4.0: Ruby Bindings for SQLite3 — The first release in two years. Apart from the usual bug fixes, the main new feature is support for defining custom aggregate functions - the tests help illustrate how they’re used.

Sparkle Motion

Rails 4.2.11.1, 5.0.7.2, 5.1.6.2, 5.2.2.1, and 6.0.0.beta3 Released — These patch level releases resolve some security issues, in particular two vulnerabilities in Action View.

Official Rails Blog

Senior Web Developer at Dr. Bill (Remote OK) — Dr. Bill helps Canadian doctors save time by streamlining their billing. Help lead our team into the next phase of growth.

Dr. Bill

Full Stack Engineer (Growth) - New York City — Help others by improving access to tech education globally. Help yourself with a competitive salary, daily free lunch, and yearly international retreats.

DataCamp

Find A Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in dev roles and is completely free for job seekers.

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Don't Use Instance Variables in Partials — This is a PSA about partials and their evolution in a growing app.

Andy Croll

Rails 6 Adds ActiveRecord::Relation#touch_all — It’s like touch (which updates records’ updated_at or other timestamps) but for multiple records.

Amit Choudhary

How (Not) to Integrate Elasticsearch Testing with RSpec — “I encountered several problems along the way. I hope this post will prevent readers from making my mistakes.”

Timur Yanberdin

Sublime Text 3.2 Released — Not Ruby specific, but we know a lot of Rubyists use this popular editor and releases tend to be far apart.

Sublime Blog

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Shrine: A File Attachment Toolkit for Ruby Applications — Integrates with several ORMs, can do image processing (for thumbnails, say), resumable uploads, and can work with both Rails and standard Rack apps.

Shrine

Phony: International Phone Number Normalizing and Formatting — For full, international E.164 standard numbers only.

Florian R. Hanke

active-record-query-trace: Rails Plugin That Logs a Backtrace of ActiveRecord Queries

Bruno Facca

Automated Visual Testing for Rails Apps. Start for Free

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Groupdate: A Simple Way to Group Temporal Data in Active Record

Andrew Kane

Sidekiq Statistic: See Statistics About Your Sidekiq Workers

Anton Davydov