Ruby 2.7 to Deprecate Automatic Conversion of a Hash to Keyword Arguments — The way ‘keyword arguments’ work in Ruby grew from the legacy approach of passing a hash of arguments into methods. Ruby 3.0, however, will have ‘real’ keyword arguments separated from the idea of hashes, so the automatic conversion of a supplied hash into keyword arguments will yield a warning in Ruby 2.7.

Rohit Kumar

The Minitest Style Guide — The Rubocop team have put together a style guide for at least my favorite Ruby testing library of choice: minitest!

Rubocop Team

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Spree 4.0: The Rails-Based Ecommerce System — Spree is a long standing modular, API-driven and Ruby-based open source ecommerce system, and with this latest version is now fully Rails 6.0 compatible.

Spree Commerce

Why RSpec Tests Fail (and How To Fix Them) — A variety of examples of where your tests could fail (time, callbacks, randomness, etc.) and thoughts on troubleshooting such issues.

Thomas Barrasso

London Ruby Unconference 2019 on October 19 — It’s only a fiver and they asked so nicely we had to include it :-) If you’re in the UK, want to meet some fellow Rubyists, consider heading to London on Saturday, October 19.

London Ruby Unconference

Scale the Runtime with Ruby Infrastructure at Scribd — Ruby serves billions of pages per year at Scribd. Optimize new versions of Ruby & Rails while contributing improvements upstream.

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How to Build a Rails App That Uses Vue.js and JSX — There aren’t a ton of Rails tutorials that use Vue, so here you go.

Andrea Vassallo

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The Algorithms Behind RuboCop's Complexity Metrics — A series of posts about how RuboCop calculates its complexity metrics on code.

Abhimanyu Singh

Save Your Links From Phishers — Define a special link helper to make links that prevent the remote site indulging in some ‘reverse tabnabbing’.

Eugene Komissarov

Fully Deleting User Data — Whether it’s compliance-driven or not, making sure to fully delete user data is part of delighting your users.

Monolist

RuboCop Meets Minitest — RuboCop has had a RSpec extension for years, but they’ve been working on rubocop-minitest for a while and are now happy to show it off.

Bozhidar Batsov

will_paginate 3.2: A Pagination library for Rails, Sinatra, and More — Amazingly it is possible for a long established pagination library to keep getting better. It’s totally up to date, complete with Ruby 2.7 and Rails 6 compatibility.

Mislav Marohnić

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connection_pool: Generic Connection Pooling Library — I found this this week and it works very well as a way to use the http gem across numerous threads in a multithreaded app.

Mike Perham

WEBrick 1.5: The HTTP Server Toolkit — WEBrick is best known as a simple, pure Ruby HTTP server that’s been in the standard library for 15+ years. It’s been shifted out to a separate gem, and here’s the first release in a year. Nothing big, but looks like mostly Ruby 2.6-focused tweaks and fixes.

Ruby Core Team

PunyLinux: A Linux Build System Powered by Ruby and Rake — An interesting approach to building a minimal Linux system.

Ryan Scott Lewis

Parallel: Parallel Processing Made Simple and Fast — Uses both processes and threads to cover all bases.

Michael Grosser