#372: Ten New Features in Ruby 2.5

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 372 — October 26, 2017 RubyMine Blog 10 New Features in Ruby 2.5 Bundler is now bundled with the standard library, backtraces are experimentally shown in reverse order, and more. Mike Perham Introducing Faktory: A New Background Job System Built by the creator of the successful Sidekiq background processing framework, Faktory aims to be more language agnostic, among other things. It has an official Ruby client, naturally. Codeship  Sponsored Codeship Ranked Amongst Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendors by Forrester Codeship ahead of IBM, AWS, Atlassian, and more. To be considered for Forrester’s report, companies needed to have a comprehensive CI product with a strong vision, more than 25 paying enterprise companies, and a strong product vision. Thoughtbot FactoryGirl Has Been Renamed to FactoryBot The popular library for defining objects during testing has renamed. This will require some changes if you want to keep using new versions. Daniel P. Clark Creating Configuration Objects in Ruby Configuration layers and the methods for their storage can vary greatly. Here’s how to implement configuration objects in Ruby. Arkency Blog Relative Testing vs Absolute Testing A subtle mind shift that serves as another approach to making your tests resilient and complete. Tom Dalling Replacing Mocks With Hand-Written Test Doubles If you reach for mocks when needing to stub out methods on objects under test, a hand-written test double may be a much better fit. Jobs Lead Application EngineerMake a big impact every day bettering health outcomes by joining an amazing team working on a modern tech stack of RoR, React, and GraphQL.  Grand Rounds Senior Ruby Engineer (Singapore)We’re building the world’s leading order and inventory management platform, redefining B2B commerce to make boring business software a thing of the past. TradeGecko 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 Ruby 2.5 Allows 'rescue/else/ensure' Inside 'do/end' Blocks news  Amit Choudhary RSpec 3.7 Released: Now Integrates with Rails 5.1 System Tests news  Sam Phippen PhantomJS Replaced with Chrome Headless in Rails news  24/7 Operations Support Built for ROR  Keep your team busy building your app, not solving ops headaches. Unlimited deploys, immediate roll-back and more.  OpsCare by reinteractive  Sponsored Replacing RVM/rbenv with ASDF tutorial asdf is a version manager for many languages, not just Ruby.  Fabio Akita A Quick Guide to Rails System Tests in RSpec tutorial  Noel Rappin DIY Google reCAPTCHA with Rails tutorial A solid example implementation using reCAPTCHA to make sure your site isn’t overrun by bots.  Sophie DeBenedetto Bridging Rails and Node.js with gRPC tutorial gRPC generates client stubs in many languages based on defined service schemas.  Reverb A 7-Step Approach to Rails Upgrades tutorial  Huiming Teo Trying Out Rails 5.1.x tutorial “So, what are you missing if you’re still in Rails 4.2?”  Fabio Akita 2 Ways to Test Eager Loading of ActiveRecord Associations in Rails tutorial  Arkency Blog Integrating React in a 6+ Year Old Rails App story  Corinne Kunze Please Stop Calling It 'Magic' opinion Unless you think inheritance, composition, monkey-patching, and metaprogramming are magic.  Victor Shepelev Expert's Guide: Should I Hire a Ruby DevOps or Outsource It?    Engine Yard  Sponsored Feature Testing with Capybara video  Drifting Ruby Action Cable Testing Utilities tools For testing message broadcasts and channels.  Vladimir Dementyev 7 Gems Which Will Make Your Rails Code Look Awesome tools  RubyRoid Labs Reduce The Time Spent on Bugs by 99% tools Instantly know whats broken & why. Real-time monitoring, alerting, analytics for Ruby errors w/ Rollbar.  ROLLBAR  Sponsored Hanami 1.1 Released code  Luca Guidi rom-factory: A Data Generator for Ruby Object Mapper (ROM) code  Piotr Solnica 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. Stop getting Ruby Weekly | Change email address | Read this issue on the Web © Cooperpress Ltd, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Email policy Privacy policy