#359: Realtime with React and Rails

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 359 — July 27, 2017 Leigh Halliday Realtime with React and Rails To showcase using ActionCable in a Rails app with React, let’s explore how to use Rails, React, MobX, and websockets in a realtime location app. Rahul Mahale Deploying Rails Apps on Kubernetes with No Downtime Kubernetes offers readiness probes and rolling updates to make sure your app is always serving requests during a new deployment. Marc Anguera Maily: A Rails Engine to Preview Outgoing Emails A mountable engine that provides a browser-based preview of mail templates, as well as being able to send test mails. ROLLBAR  Sponsored Reduce your time spent debugging by 90% Reduce time wasted debugging. Automatically capture errors in Ruby apps. Rollbar detects when code breaks in real-time and provides full stack trace and diagnostic data to help you defeat Ruby errors. Learn more. Kevin Kuchta Disguising Ruby as JavaScript This is purely for fun but it’s an interesting experiment into a task that no-one should, ideally, use in production(!) DNSimple How DNSimple's Latest API Architecture is Built with Hanami How DNSimple organized a Hanami application to serve up their newest API and decoupled the Rails UI from the backend. Jobs Senior Backend Engineer at Stash (New York City)We're looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer with a passion for building reliable, scalable, and performant software. Stash Backend Platform Engineer at HotelTonight (SF)We're an award winning mobile platform that delivers personalized experiences for booking last-minute hotels. Build and question with an awesome team culture. HotelTonight Full stack Ruby and Rails dev (remote)We’re a growing realtime platform solving truly complex distributed problems for the developer community. If you enjoy challenging your grey matter and building great web services, apply. ABLY.IO Can't find the right job? Want companies to apply to you? Try Hired.com. In brief The 'bootsnap' Gem is Now Part of the Rails Default Gemfile news bootsnap reduces app boot time significantly.  Ruby on Rails Passenger 5.1.6: Fixes an NGINX Issue, plus extra Debian Packages news  Phusion Blog Nominations Now Being Accepted for Ruby Prize 2017 news  The Ruby Association Major Coding Bootcamp Ditches Rails, Claims Lower Employer Demand news Replacing it with a Java + Spring course.  The Next Web Webinar: How to be a Performance Driven Engineer  Access this recording on guidelines, insights & principles for a performance-driven engineering mindset.  VividCortex  Sponsored Implementing Clojure's 'interpose' in Ruby tutorial  Brian Cobb Quick Tip: Add Output to Your Long Running Rake Tasks tutorial  Nathaniel Rowe The Differences Between nil?, empty?, blank?, and present? tutorial  Arkency Scope the Monkey: A Refinements Refresher tutorial A quick look at the problem that refinements fix and some gotchas when using them.  Alex Miller Build a Minimal Docker Container for Ruby Apps tutorial  Ilija Eftimov The Dependency Inversion Principle tutorial The last in a now-completed series on the SOLID design principles.  Sergii Makagon JSON Web Token Authentication in Rails APIs tutorial This tutorial builds the solution from scratch, including auth and admin users.  Paweł J. Wal Enforcing the Specific Location of a Method Call tutorial Mostly cute trickery but you might learn something too.  Andrei Lisnic Everything You Need to Know About Ruby Constants tutorial  Jesus Castello Working with UUIDs in Rails tutorial  Franzé Jr. Manifold Teams makes it easy for you to share cloud services  Reserve your team name and be entered for a chance to score 1 of 5, $500 credits on Manifold.  Manifold  Sponsored How Learning Elixir Made Me A Better Ruby Developer story  Hubert Łępicki Benchmarking and Refactoring the content_for View Helper video  Drifting Ruby A List of Ruby-Based Data Science Tools tools  Andrei Beliankou system_tester: Create and Manage System Tests for Rails 5.1+ tools  Richard LaFranchi Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo.    linode  Sponsored Traim: A Resource-Oriented Microframework for RESTful APIs code A quick way to spin up a RESTful API for your Active Record models.  Travis Liu Down: For Flexible and Safe Downloading of Remote Files code  Janko Marohnić 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? Email 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