#370: Ruby 2.5 Preview 1 Released

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 370 — October 12, 2017 Yui Naruse Ruby 2.5 Preview 1 Released The first official preview release of 2.5 is here (fingers crossed for a final release at Christmas). Aaron Patterson Unsafe Object Deserialization Vulnerability in RubyGems Read this for the full explanation of the problem and the very speedy fix. Tom Benner ReportsKit: Add Reporting to Your Rails App in Minutes A library for quickly adding interactive charts and tables for reporting purposes to a Rails app. Depfu  Sponsored Spend less time updating your Rails app Depfu continuously updates your dependencies one gem at a time and creates a super nice pull request with all the info you need. You stay in control if and when to merge. Luca Guidi Introducing hanami-cli: A New Framework for Command Line Tools hanami-cli is a gem for creating command line applications that support subcommands and extensibility. The Hanami project has replaced Thor with this. ruby-lang.org Top-Level Constant Lookup Removed in Ruby 2.5 Previously, if you referenced a constant in a scope that didn’t have the constant, Ruby would confusingly look for a top-level constant with the same name. No more. Alessandro Minali Monkey Patching in Ruby: A Real World Example How some folks working on Surrealist (a PORO to JSON serialization library) answered the question “To Monkey Patch or Not To Monkey Patch?” Jason Charnes Organizing My First Conference: Southeast Ruby Organizing a conference is a mix of joy, sweat, and fear. Here is an in-depth look at what it took for Southeast Ruby. 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 Ruby Enthusiasts Wanted at Runtastic (Austria)Are you up for new challenges with Ruby? Our awesome backend developer team is looking for passionate professionals. Join now. Runtastic Ruby on Rails Developer at X-Team (Remote)We help our developers keep learning and growing every day. Unleash your potential. Work from anywhere. Join X-Team. X-Team 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 Rails 5.2 Adds Options for Signed and Encrypted Cookies news You can also specify a relative expiry time.  BigBinary Blog RubyElixirConf Taiwan 2018 Call For Papers Open news The conference, taking place next April, has expanded to include Elixir.  RubyConf Taiwan New Book Released, 'Mastering Ruby Strings and Encodings' news Learn everything there is to know about strings and encodings. Note: It costs, but it’s solid.  Aaron Lasseigne Codeship Ranked Amongst Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendors by Forrester  Codeship ahead of IBM, TravisCI, Atlassian, and more. Download the report for free.  Codeship  Sponsored Receiving and Parsing Email in Rails 5 Using Griddler and Mailgun tutorial  Rob Race HTTP2 Early Hints in Rails 5.2+ tutorial A look at an HTTP2 feature for specifying assets you want a client to load early.  Eileen M. Uchitelle A Look at Ruby 2.5's Improved Stacktraces tutorial  Michał Łomnicki Extracting a Class from a Method tutorial  Cody Boyko We've solved your ROR Operations needs  DevOps solutions for ROR with expert 24/7 monitoring and support.  OpsCare by reinteractive  Sponsored 7 Little-Known Ruby Methods To Help You Write Better Code tutorial  Jesus Castello Upload Images to S3 in GraphQL Using Rails and Paperclip tutorial  Matt Engledowl PDF Filter Implementation in HexaPDF Using Fibers tutorial PDF streams can be run through a pipeline of filters, which fits Ruby fibers very nicely.  Thomas Leitner A Guide to Understanding the Rails Directory Structure tutorial Goes beyond the official guides and looks at folders created by common gems and RSpec.  Joshua Cavin Updating Deeply Nested Attributes with RSpec tutorial  Noel Worden A Basic (Re)Introduction to Testing in Rails 5.1 video  Drifting Ruby nullalign: Generate Warnings for Missing Not-Null Constraints tools  Tom Copeland The Road to Ruby and Rails Error Domination Starts Here tools  Rollbar  Sponsored PgParty: PostgreSQL 10 Partitioning for ActiveRecord code  Ryan Krage 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