#369: Could We Drop Symbols From Ruby?

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 369 — October 5, 2017 Robert Pankowecki Could We Drop Symbols From Ruby? A potentially controversial thought experiment here. Could symbols simply be replaced by frozen, immutable strings? Ruby Dev Summit Ruby Dev Summit: A Free Online Event for Rubyists It takes place October 16-21 and has a lot of great speakers including Matz and Michael Hartl (of Rails Tutorial fame). Redisgreen  Sponsored Redis 4.0 now on RedisGreen Redis 4.0 is out and available on RedisGreen with full visualization of your memory usage and top-tier performance. Daniel Westendorf get_schwifty: Render Portions of Rails Views in a Background Job Queue The idea is that slow view partials can be rendered asynchronously in the background and delivered over ActionCable. Chris Salzberg Rediscovering Modularity in Ruby A story about modules, Matz, and Ruby set in the context of RubyKaigi 2017. GitHub 'ubygems.rb' Removed from Ruby Core ‘ubygems.rb’ was present so that the command line option -rubygems would work. It has now been removed as RubyGems will always be loaded anyway. Kelly Sutton Embracing Functional Programming in Ruby Using functional constructs in Ruby to create expressive interfaces that are easy to test and handle change well. Jobs Senior Ruby EngineerNetwork for Good is in growth mode and is looking for a Senior Ruby Engineer who desires both technical challenges and creating code for good (not evil :-)). Network For Good Ruby on Rails Full Stack Engineer (California, USA)The Apple Media Products Engineering team is looking for a software engineer to build and enhance algorithmic quality evaluation tools. Apple Full Stack Rails Engineer (Remote in US, Canada, Brazil)Help us make the hiring process better for 100m+ job seekers across the globe. Work on product, scalability or internal tools. Interviewed (acquired by Indeed) In brief Announcing Hanami V1.1.0.beta3 news  Luca Guidi Surrealist: A Gem to Serialize Ruby Objects According to a Defined Schema tutorial JSON serialization based on a user-defined schema that includes the ability to use dry_types.  Nikita Create a Ruby App with Web Apps on Linux tutorial Create a Ruby on Rails application you then deploy it to Azure as a Web App on Linux.  Microsoft  Sponsored How to Program Vim Using Ruby tutorial If you’ve compiled Vim with Ruby then you can avoid using Vimscript and modify the editor using your favorite language.  Gabriel Poça Perusing delegate.rb from Ruby's Standard Library tutorial  Eliav Lavi Accessing Hash Values with Fallbacks for Missing Data tutorial  Thoughtbot One Simple Trick to Make Event Sourcing Click tutorial Separate the public interface from the private consequences of the event.  Arkency Blog Some Interesting Methods and Behavior with Arrays in Ruby tutorial  Sergii Makagon Ruby 2.4 Has Optimized Enumerable 'min' and 'max' Methods tutorial  Chirag Shah Considering Performance and Unique Validations in Rails tutorial  Igor Khomenko Ways to Check Which Ruby Version You're Using tutorial  Robert Pankowecki Daily Fantasy Football Salary Tracker with Ruby and Twilio SMS tutorial In this post we’ll show you how to build a price tracker for your favorite fantasy sports site with Ruby.  Twilio  Sponsored A Reddit AMA with the Authors of 'Effective Testing with RSpec 3' story Myron Marston and Ian Dees answered lots of questions earlier this week.  Reddit How A Lifelong Rubyist Made Some Python Code 5x Faster story  Richard Schneeman What I Learned After Going 18 Months Without Rails story Love Rails, hate Rails, leave Rails, truly understand Rails. Rinse. Repeat.  Wojciech Maciejak Don't Use default_scope. Ever. Here's Why. opinion  Andy Croll Expert's guide: Should I hire Ruby DevOps or Outsource to a Provider?    Engine Yard  Sponsored Recommended Ruby and Rails Books for Experienced Developers tools  Prograils render_async 1.0: Render View Partials Asynchronously via Ajax code  Rendered Text Virtualearth: Bing Maps API Wrapper code API wrappers for the Locations, Elevations, Imagery, and Routes APIs.  Andrey Zinenko 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