--- title: "More work on making Ruby faster" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 555 published_at: "2021-06-03" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/555" --- Plus another online Ruby event, cron-like jobs for Sidekiq, and lets throw the Stack Overflow survey in Ruby's favor. | #​555 — June 3, 2021 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/555) 😶 A curiously quiet week in Ruby land! We hope you're enjoying the weather where you are right now, especially as summer begins to rear its head in the northern hemisphere.. :-) Psst.. feel free to send in your submissions! __ _Peter Cooper and Glenn Goodrich_ Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/kdku7jdlzchrcd3cumpw.jpg)](https://pointersgonewild.com/2021/06/02/yjit-building-a-new-jit-compiler-inside-cruby/) [YJIT: Building a New JIT Compiler Inside CRuby](https://pointersgonewild.com/2021/06/02/yjit-building-a-new-jit-compiler-inside-cruby/) — Even if you can’t follow along with the technicalities, it’s reassuring to know a lot of work is still going into making Ruby (and Rails, [as we featured last week](https://k0kubun.medium.com/ruby-3-jit-can-make-rails-faster-756310f235a)) faster. YJIT is still in its ‘early stages’ but the speedups achieved already are encouraging. Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert (Shopify) [Why is JRuby 'Slow?'](https://earthly.dev/blog/jruby/) — While the title feels clickbait-y and perhaps unfair out of context, the author goes deep into why JRuby _seems_ slow while exploring use cases where the JVM might shine. It provoked [some discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27322533) on Hacker News, too. Adam Gordon Bell [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/5b5b43d2.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/rubyweekly) [Redis 6.2 on RedisGreen](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/rubyweekly) — SSL encryption, key size tracking, memory mapping, online upgrades, and more. RedisGreen sponsor [On the Diverse And Fantastical Shapes of Testing](https://martinfowler.com/articles/2021-test-shapes.html) — Does your testing follow a pyramid, a honeycomb, or a trophy? How many unit tests vs integration vs other? Is mocking and stubbing OK? The testing world is certainly full of opinions and shapes. Martin Fowler [Understanding RBS, Ruby's New(ish) Type Annotation System](https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/ruby-rbs-type-annotation/) — It feels like RBS kind of stepped offstage for a bit, so good timing for a bookmarkable post going over its rationale with plenty of examples. Julio Sampaio **QUICK BITS:** - [EMEA on Rails](https://www.emeaonrails.com/) is a Europe, Middle East and Africa-oriented event taking place entirely online next Wednesday (June 9). Check out [the schedule of talks.](https://www.emeaonrails.com/#schedule) - JetBrains has [opened its early access program](https://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2021/05/rubymine-2021-2-eap-is-open/) for the forthcoming RubyMine 2021.2. Ruby 3 RBS support is the headlining feature. - The _Ruby Rogues_ podcast has celebrated its tenth birthday with [its 500th episode.](https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/episode-500-ruby-500/) The [Ruby on Rails Podcast](https://5by5.tv/rubyonrails) is older, but I think Rogues holds the episode count crown. - We mentioned Stack Overflow's [2021 survey](https://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7arimtzVFf8ipfM) last week, but realized it would be neat to see Ruby suddenly jump up the language popularity charts.. 😄 if you agree, consider [taking part.](https://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7arimtzVFf8ipfM) [Last year](https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted) Ruby was the 19th most loved language, but the 7th "most dreaded" - let's spin that round! 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