---
title: "Ruby 2.6.2 Released"
publication: "Ruby Weekly"
issue: 441
published_at: "2019-03-14"
canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/441"
---

This week's Ruby news, issue 441       

#441 — March 14, 2019 

[Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/441)   

Ruby Weekly 

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Nikita Misharin   

[Ruby 2.6.2 (and 2.5.4) Released](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/03/13/ruby-2-6-2-released/) — These releases ([2.5.4 is here](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/03/13/ruby-2-5-4-released/)) are mostly due to the [RubyGems security issues](https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html) we mentioned last week. 

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RedisGreen sponsor   

[Rubyfmt: An Autoformatter for Ruby Code](https://github.com/samphippen/rubyfmt) — 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](https://github.com/sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby) — The first release in two years. Apart from the usual bug fixes, the main new feature is support for defining custom [aggregate functions](https://www.sqlite.org/lang_aggfunc.html) - [the tests](https://github.com/sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby/blob/master/test/test_integration_aggregate.rb) 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](https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2019/3/13/Rails-4-2-5-1-5-1-6-2-have-been-released/) — These patch level releases resolve some security issues, in particular two vulnerabilities in Action View. 

Official Rails Blog  

💻 Jobs  

[Senior Web Developer at Dr. Bill (Remote OK)](https://www.dr-bill.ca/senior-web-developer) — Dr. Bill helps Canadian doctors save time by streamlining their billing. Help lead our team into the next phase of growth. 

Dr. Bill   

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DataCamp   

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📘 Articles & Tutorials  

[Don't Use Instance Variables in Partials](https://andycroll.com/ruby/dont-use-instance-variables-in-partials/) — This is a PSA about partials and their evolution in a growing app. 

Andy Croll   

▶[How to Use Rails 6's ActionText](https://gorails.com/episodes/how-to-use-action-text) — A quick introduction to using ActionText in Rails 6 (still in beta) apps for editing and displaying rich text plus uploading files. 

Go Rails   

[Rails 6 Adds `ActiveRecord::Relation#touch_all`](https://blog.bigbinary.com/2019/03/12/rails-6-adds-activerecord-relation-touch-all.html) — It’s like `touch` (which updates records’ `updated_at` or other timestamps) but for multiple records. 

Amit Choudhary   

▶[Discussing TDD Workflows with Kent Beck](http://www.rubytestingpodcast.com/kent-beck) — A 55 minute chat with the author of _Test-Driven Development: By Example_ that digs into how to get started with testing if you’re still unsure. 

The Ruby Testing Podcast podcast   

▶[Discussing Why Rails Needs 'Active Deployment' with Stefan Wintermeyer](https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/rr-403-rails-needs-active-deployment-with-stefan-wintermeyer/) — A 50 minute chat with the author of numerous Rails books. 

Ruby Rogues Podcast podcast   

[How (Not) to Integrate Elasticsearch Testing with RSpec](https://mendab1e.github.io/dev/2019/03/09/how_not_to_integrate_elasticsearch_testing_with_rspec.html) — _“I encountered several problems along the way. I hope this post will prevent readers from making my mistakes.”_ 

Timur Yanberdin  

🔧 Code & Tools  

[Sublime Text 3.2 Released](https://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-point-2) — Not Ruby specific, but we know a lot of Rubyists use this popular editor and releases tend to be far apart. 

Sublime Blog   

[Simplify Event Tracking with a Single API](https://segment.com/?utm_source=rubynl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ss) — Collect data once with Segment and send it to 200+ tools. Get a free developer account. 

Segment sponsor   

[Shrine: A File Attachment Toolkit for Ruby Applications](http://shrinerb.com/) — 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](https://github.com/floere/phony) — For full, international [E.164 standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164) numbers only. 

Florian R. Hanke   

[active-record-query-trace: Rails Plugin That Logs a Backtrace of ActiveRecord Queries](https://github.com/brunofacca/active-record-query-trace) 

Bruno Facca   

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Percy sponsor   

[Groupdate: A Simple Way to Group Temporal Data in Active Record](https://github.com/ankane/groupdate) 

Andrew Kane   

[Sidekiq Statistic: See Statistics About Your Sidekiq Workers](https://github.com/davydovanton/sidekiq-statistic) 

Anton Davydov         

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