#374: Discussing Ruby 3.0 with Matz

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 374 — November 9, 2017 Ross Kaffenberger How We Switched From Sprockets to Webpack A thorough writeup of what was involved and what was learnt by adopting the Webpacker system in an existing Rails 4.2 app. Kickstarter Upgrading Kickstarter to Rails 5 How Kickstarter prepared and executed the upgrade to Rails 5 on time and with minimal production interruptions. Honeybadger  Sponsored Ruby's Exceptional Creatures Exceptional creatures is a bestiary-style compendium of Ruby's exceptions, blending documentation with artwork reminiscent of _why's poignant guide. Morning Commute Video: Discussing Ruby 3.0 and More With Matz A 30 minute interview in a car with Ruby’s creator, Matz, on Ruby’s history and looking forward to Ruby 3.0. Filippos Vasilakis Ruby Performance Profiling: An Unorthodox Approach When flamegraphs and other methods don’t lead to finding performance bugs, a metaprogramming approach may show the way. Aaron Lasseigne Why Aren't We Using More Service Objects Already A response to Avdi Grimm’s Enough With the Service Objects Already post from last week. Andrew Kane Multiverse: Manage Multiple Databases in Rails Apps Makes it easier to work with multiple databases on the same app. Jobs Senior Rails Developer - RemoteWant to help us build the best CI/CD service in the world? We're looking for seasoned Rails developers to join our Product team.  Semaphore 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 Versions Used in Commercial Projects in 2017 news Over 80% are now on Ruby 2.0 and above.  Semaphore CI JRuby 9.1.14.0 Released news  RubyGems 2.7.2 Released: A Bugfix Release news  RubyGems Blog Hacking Pixel Art on Video Wall with Ruby and 23,000 Text Messages tutorial Kevin Thompson hacked the video wall at Twilio's SIGNAL and shares how he did it with Ruby.  Twilio  Sponsored Interactors in Ruby: Easy As Cake, Simple As Pie tutorial Use the interactor gem to create service objects and organize simple workflows.  Tiago Farias How 'require' Loads A Gem tutorial  Ryan Bigg Get 80% Smaller Rails Page Sizes with Rack Deflate tutorial  Richard Schneeman Quick Tip: A Pitfall of The &. Operator tutorial Spoiler: It changes behavior and precedence.  Anton Katunin How to Partition and Conquer a Large Postgres Table tutorial  Sergey Dolganov and Denis Lifanov Turn Rows Into Columns With The Array#transpose Method tutorial  Jesus Castello Checklist For Migrating Your Ruby on Rails Application tutorial  Engine Yard  Sponsored Upgrading a Rails App from 3.2 to 4.0 tutorial Still lots of older apps out there..  Mauro Otonelli The Difference Between Mocks and Stubs (using RSpec) tutorial  Sergii Makagon Understanding the Model-View-Controller Architecture in Rails tutorial  Glenn Goodrich and Patrick Lenz Speeding Up Tests with 'parallel_tests' video Run tests in parallel across multiple CPU cores.  Drifting Ruby "CircleCI 2.0 is fast. We reduced builds from minutes to 12 seconds."  Automate your dev process using continuous integration and delivery so you can focus on building great things.  CircleCI  Sponsored Arbolito: A Minimalist Currency Conversion Library code Uses Alpha Vantage for which you can get a key.  Juani Villarejo wsdirector: A Command Line Tool for Testing WebSockets code  Vladimir Dementyev 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