#386: Speeding Up Ruby with Shared Strings

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 386 — February 15, 2018 Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson Speeding Up Ruby with Shared Strings An in-depth explanation of a patch to Ruby that both reduces memory and speeds up performance (with require going 35% faster). YouTube DHH on Writing Software Well: A New Video Series The creator of Rails jumps back into screencasting with a look at how he works on Basecamp. There’s also a second episode where he looks at using callbacks to manage complexity. Datadog  Sponsored Monitor Performance for Ruby, Java, Go, & Python Apps Visualize and alert on custom metrics in real-time with Datadog. Utilize distributed tracing and interactive flame graphs to gain full-stack visibility and optimize Ruby, Java, Go, and Python application performance. Try Datadog free. Bradley Price Deploying Faktory to AWS Fargate Faktory, created by Sidekiq’s Mike Perham, is a new approach to running background jobs. This tutorial covers using it with Rails and deploying it to AWS’s new container deployment service. Noah Gibbs Benchmarking Ruby's Heap: malloc, tcmalloc, jemalloc Continuing this week’s posts on memory, a benchmark between different memory allocators. Alessandro Rodi Goodbye Sprockets, Welcome Webpacker 3.0 A migration guide for moving from Rails 5.1 with Sprockets to the new Wepbacker 3.0. Neven Rakonić Analyzing RubyGems Stats for 2017 It’s no secret the Ruby ecosystem isn’t growing aggressively, but things continue to tick along nicely and “2017 was a good year for Ruby.” Jobs Sr. Rails EngineerJoin us, work remotely from North America, and help build software that matters. Our team is hiring. Aha! Lead Full-Stack Developer (SF)Help improve product intake funnels, user account pages, customer payment processes, & integrate with tools used by business units. The RealReal Looking for a Job at a Company That Prioritizes Ruby?Try Vettery and we’ll connect you directly with thousands of companies looking for talented back-end devs. Vettery In brief Rails 5.1.5 Released news  Official Rails Blog New Book: Rails 5 Test Prescriptions, by Noel Rappin news Covers testing with Rails 5.2, Minitest 5, RSpec 3.7, factory_bot and Cucumber.  The Pragmatic Bookshelf Ruby for Good: A Ruby Event in Washington DC, June 7-10 news The goal is to build projects that help the world in some way.  Ruby Concurrency: Building a Timeout Queue tutorial Pop by and queue up (groan) to learn about handling condition variables and timeouts.  Tom Van Eyck Checking Postgres Availability with Pure Ruby tutorial Play with the Postgres wire protocol at the lowest level, as well as do something useful with it.  Michał Młoźniak Ruby's New JIT: MJIT tutorial We linked to a similar article last week but here’s a higher level take.  Shannon Skipper Change Tracking in Callbacks is Different in Rails 5.1 tutorial  Drivy Engineering Utilize DigitalOcean's API to Scale Ruby Web Apps w/ DOProxy tutorial  DigitalOcean  Sponsored Testing React Components in a Rails+Webpacker Environment tutorial Continuing this week’s posts on Rails and Webpacker, here’s one way to test your front-end code.  Arkency Blog Ruby 2.5's New Process#last_status Method tutorial  Atul Bhosale API Changes in ActiveRecord::Dirty 5.2 tutorial Worth being aware of with Rails 5.2 around the corner.  Mauro Otonelli Building a Hosting Platform on Ruby video A look behind the scenes of Hatchbox.io.  Chris Oliver GoCD's Continuous Delivery Pipelines Scaled for Your Enterprise tools  GoCD  Sponsored Halunke: A Simple OO Language Inspired by Smalltalk and Lisp tools Written in Ruby.  Lucas Dohmen Improve Your Engineering Team's Velocity With These 3 Metrics  If your business depends on software (it does) you're probably spending a lot of time thinking about DevOps.  CircleCI  Sponsored Methods: Get Method References in a Cleaner Way code Get a method reference with Klass.method.method_name  Artur Roszczyk An RSpec Matcher for Incrementing and Decrementing code Rather than .to change {}.by(-1), how about .to decrement?  Tom Copeland No More HTML with Opal and Ferro? code Opal allows Ruby to run in a browser and Ferro manages the DOM.  Ivo Herweijer LightIO: A Userland Green Thread Library for Ruby code  Socketry Fixer: A Foreign Exchange Rate and Currency Conversion API code  Fixer Use MySQL's Native JSON Type from ActiveRecord/Rails 4 code JSON on Rails adds support for MySQL 5.7’s JSON data type to Rails 4.  Saverio Miroddi 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