--- title: "RIP Ruby 2.6" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 597 published_at: "2022-03-31" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/597" --- Plus another look at Sorbet, a Ruby powered game, and parallel testing. | [🇺🇦](https://war.ukraine.ua/) #​597 — March 31, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/597) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/bbn87jkbaxdtrwdejfxe.jpg)](https://stripe.com/blog/sorbet-stripes-type-checker-for-ruby) [On Sorbet, Stripe’s Type Checker for Ruby](https://stripe.com/blog/sorbet-stripes-type-checker-for-ruby) — [Sorbet](https://sorbet.run/) isn’t new (it was [open sourced](https://sorbet.org/blog/2019/06/20/open-sourcing-sorbet) in 2019) but Stripe is keen to share its successes with it and tell the story of why it's used over their entire Ruby codebase – some 15 million lines of code. Maybe it’s time to give it a try, if you haven’t yet? 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