--- title: "Shopify's big investments into Ruby's future" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 604 published_at: "2022-05-19" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/604" --- Plus teaching Postgres some new tricks, bringing Rust and Ruby together, and learning how to contribute to Ruby. | [🇺🇦](https://war.ukraine.ua/) #​604 — May 19, 2022 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/604) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/n3gtziqa2yqdkyhtk5ux.jpg)](https://shopify.engineering/shopify-ruby-at-scale-research-investment) [Shopify Invests in Research for Ruby at Scale](https://shopify.engineering/shopify-ruby-at-scale-research-investment) — This is exciting! If you’ve kept an eye on industry comings and goings in recent years, you may have noticed Shopify has brought together _quite_ the team of Ruby and VM experts (whether through direct hires or collaborations) and it’s only continuing – this bodes _extremely_ well for Ruby and reminds me somewhat of when Google went all in on V8.. Chris Seaton (Shopify) [Using _Scientist_ to Refactor Critical Rails Code](https://blog.appsignal.com/2022/05/18/using-scientist-to-refactor-critical-ruby-on-rails-code.html) — We’ve mentioned [Scientist](https://github.com/github/scientist) a few times over the years as a neat way to introduce change to an untested or complex app through executing the old and new code and comparing results. The LabTech gem introduced in this post makes this process even easier. 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Kevin Newton [A Case for Query Objects in Rails](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/a-case-for-query-objects-in-rails) — Making your queries reusable is an excellent idea and bound to save you frustration cycles later. Here are a few ways to build them right. Thiago Araújo Silva (thoughtbot) [How Lyft's Mobile Team Does Mobile CI at Scale](https://buildkite.com/blog/how-lyfts-mobile-team-does-mobile-ci-at-scale?utm_campaign=CPress&utm_source=ppc&utm_medium=CPress&utm_term=Lyfts-mobile-team-CICD&utm_content=CICD) — How does Lyft do mobile CI/CD and unblock their ~200 mobile app contributors? Lyft shares all the details. Buildkite sponsor [How to Get a Random Number in Ruby](https://www.bootrails.com/blog/how-to-get-a-random-number-in-ruby/) — It’s a basic thing to do, but did you know there are several options? Shino and David [How to Mock ActionMailer](https://blog.nolanphillips.com/how-to-mock-actionmailer) — Using RSpec custom matchers to make clean ActionMailer mocks. 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