#356: A Thorough Tour of Ruby Exception Classes

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 356 — July 6, 2017 Andrew Powell-Morse A Thorough Tour of Ruby's Exception Classes A now-complete series of posts focusing on Ruby’s rich plethora of built-in exception handling classes. It has just ended with a look at fatal errors. Drivy Engineering Running Feature Specs with Capybara and Headless Chrome Chrome can now run headless, making it possible to run headless specs without PhantomJS. mruby mruby 1.3.0 Released An official lightweight Ruby implementation designed for linking and embedding. mruby 1.3 is a key release including the safe navigation operator, Array#dig, Object#freeze and various bug fixes. Honeybadger  Sponsored What happens when your code breaks in production? If you have Honeybadger you'll be alerted with crucial details like the error location, the data being processed and the affected users. So you can deploy a fix quickly and get back to coding. Daniel P. Clark Graphing Benchmark Results in Ruby An example on how to generate graph data images from a Ruby codebase’s benchmark suite using a helper you can bring to your own projects. Martin Chabot Simple and Functional Strong Parameters in Ruby Using partial function application to make parameter filtering more functional, readable, and extensible. Launch School A Guide to Core Ruby Tools A thorough modern guide to getting Ruby up and running and how RubyGems, Rake, Bundler, and various Ruby version managers work. Jobs Learning Platform Developer (Full stack, based in NYC)Join the core team for Big Think Edge, a disruptive content and analytics platform for organizational innovation and learning. Big Think Ruby on Rails Developer at X-Team (Remote)We are 100% remote. We'll work with you 1-on-1 to motivate and fund you to learn, grow and build a legacy. Join X-Team. X-Team Can't find the right job? Want companies to apply to you? Try Hired.com. In brief 'Learn Ruby on Rails' Book Updated for Rails 5.1 news  RailsApps Rails Has Been Downloaded Over 100 Million Times news  Rubygems.org [eBook] The Essential Guide to Queuing Theory  Queueing theory is one of the best ways to boost performance. This ebook demystifies the subject without requiring pages full of equations.  VIVID CORTEX  Sponsored 5 Improvements for Debugging Flaky Tests tutorial  Buildkite Implementing Simple Classification Using a Neural Network in Ruby tutorial  Practical Artificial Intelligence Using Enumberable's grep Method tutorial  Muyiwa Olu Preventing Security Issues in Rails Apps tutorial Based on the top 10 threats as identified by OWAS.  Krzysztof Kempiński SOLID's 'Interface Segregation Principle' in Ruby tutorial  Sergii Makagon Refactoring From Inheritance To Composition To Data tutorial  Tom Dalling Rails Asset Pipeline Compilation with Docker tutorial A way to cope with the challenge of compiling Rails app assets with Docker.  Tomas Valent How to Make the Mac Touch Bar Useful for Rubyists tutorial Demonstrates triggering a Ruby script with the touchbar.  Nerdblog.pl Using Docker and Codeship for Ruby Development    Codeship  Sponsored A Tour of the New Rails 5 App Generator video Looks at the files and directory differences in Rails 5 vs Rails 4 when creating a new application.  Ruby Thursday A Look at Rails 5.1's MySQL Virtual Column Support video  Drifting Ruby 27 Ruby Gems I Use in Almost Every Project opinion  Rob Race How I Test My Rails Applications (Now) opinion After 4 years of working on Rails, this developer’s approach to testing has evolved.  Patrik Bona SF-based Ruby experts at ReinventONE can be helping you today  Do you have a hard coding, or a design challenge? Need to scale 100x? Improve process? We love this stuff. Bring it.  ReinventONE  Sponsored Crankstarter: A Rails + React KickStarter-Style App code  Yoseph Habtewold Color LS: A Ruby Script That Beautifies The 'ls' Command code Uses color and icons to better show off what’s going on file-wise.  Athitya Kumar Callio: Answer Your Phone Calls in The Browser Through Slack code Using Twilio and Slack notifications.  Netguru Curated by Peter Cooper and Glenn Goodrich, and published by Cooperpress. Send feedback by simply replying to this mail. Want to sponsor an issue? See our media kit. Want to post a job? E-mail us or use our self-serve system. Unsubscribe : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web © Cooperpress Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Email policy Privacy policy