#367: Loading 1 Million Lines of Ruby in 5 Seconds

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 367 — September 21, 2017 Marc Anguera Insa Awesome Ruby: Curated List of Ruby Libraries and Tools It’s been over a year since we’ve linked to this epic, categorized collection of Ruby greatness, and it continues to be updated frequently. Arkency Blog How Mutation Testing Causes Deeper Thinking About Your Code A brief tale about being surprised by mutation testing results and figuring out how to deal with it. 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. Stanislav Kozlovski Crystal: The Ruby You've Never Heard of If you’ve read Ruby Weekly for a while you probably have heard of this statically compiled, Ruby-inspired language, but if not.. Irina Bednova From Ruby to Go: What to Expect An 18 minute overview of the differences from a seasoned Rubyist perspective. This may also be a good time to note we have a Go newsletter as well :-) Andrew Metcalf How to Load 1 Million Lines of Ruby in 5 Seconds A 30-minute talk from GORUCO on how Stripe reduced the time to boot a service by statically analyzing dependencies. Aja Hammerly Machine Learning Basics: K Nearest Neighbors The K Nearest Neighbors algorithm performs item classification based on existing classified data. Vladimir Makarov Towards Ruby 3x3 Performance [PDF] Ruby 3x3 is the idea that Ruby 3 is aiming to be 3x faster than Ruby 2.x. These (very technical) slides cover some ideas for achieving this. Jobs Join the BackerKit Engineering TeamBackerKit is the leading platform for creators that want to focus on creating. We're building a bunch of neat stuff, come join us. BackerKit Senior Backend Engineer @ Capcom Beeline (Vancouver, Los Angeles)Become a core member of our team. We are crafting the next-generation eSports platform for mobile games. Capcom Beeline DevOps Engineer for a Distributed Messaging PlatformWe’re solving complex distributed problems with significant infrastructure scale. If you enjoy challenging your grey matter, apply. Ably realtime Can't find the right job? Want companies to apply to you? Try Hired.com. In brief Rails 4.2.10 RC1 Released news  Official Rails Blog Ruby Together's August 2017 Update news Including news that Reinteractive is supporting RT with a $60K sponsorship.  Ruby Together Webinar: How to Become a Performance Driven Engineer    VividCortex  Sponsored Don't Call Us, We'll Call You: Sending Webhooks with Rails tutorial How to integrate your Rails app with anything that can provide a URL.  Benedikt Deicke Build Your Own Daily Fantasy Football Salary Tracker with Ruby and Twilio tutorial  Twilio Use TTY::Command to Run External Processes in Ruby tutorial  Jonathan Rochkind Cross-Site Scripting in Rails tutorial How to mitigate XSS attacks in your Rails app.  Brakeman Pro DateTime#to_time and Time#to_time Preserve Timezone in Ruby 2.4+ tutorial  Big Binary Composable RSpec Matchers tutorial A look at how in some cases it can be a good idea to compose multiple matchers together.  Szymon Fiedler Watch Out for This Ruby Blocks Scope Gotcha tutorial Repeat: Blocks are a new scope.  Benjamin Roth Using Rails' MessageVerifier for Stateless Token Management tutorial An alternative approach to sending out persisted tokens (like for resetting passwords).  Simon Taranto Slow CI build? Make it run in 2 minutes or less  Semaphore Boosters automatically parallelize large Rails test suites with split-second precision.  Semaphore  Sponsored ezpaas-cli: A Miniature Docker-Powered Heroku Clone for In-House Deployments tools It’s a work in progress but the author assures me it’s ripe for testing.  TENDIGI py2rb: An AST-Based Python to Ruby Code Translator tools It’s written in Python.  Naitoh Jun Roda 3.0 Released: A Routing Tree Web Toolkit code GitHub repo.  Jeremy Evans Searchkick: Intelligent Search for Rails Apps code Uses Elasticsearch to provide ‘smart’ search that learns from what your users are searching for.  Andrew Kane "CircleCI 2.0 is fast. We reduced builds from minutes to 12 seconds."    CircleCI  Sponsored 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