#387: Ruby turns 25

This week's Ruby and Rails news Read this e-mail on the Web Ruby Weekly Issue 387 — February 22, 2018 Dave Thomas Happy 25th Birthday, Ruby Rubyists have been leaving messages for Ruby 25th anniversary, being celebrated at an event in Japan this weekend. There’s also an entire hashtag, #ruby25th, on Twitter packed with messages including from folks like Aaron Patterson, DHH and Chad Fowler. k0kubun The Method JIT Compiler for Ruby 2.6 We’ve linked to some articles about the promising new ‘MJIT’ compiler recently, but here’s an update directly from the engineer working on it along with some history and benchmarks. reinteractive  Sponsored We've Solved the Problems of ROR Operations Our out-source DevOps solves the problems associated with ROR development. Plus our blue/green pre-baked deployment process means that you can deploy your app as often as you want. Get started today – start enjoying OpsCare. Benoit Daloze TruffleRuby Native: Fast Even for Short Scripts TruffleRuby is a high performance Ruby implementation built on GraalVM and this post pits it against 2 other JIT-equipped Ruby implementations. (And the bit about ‘On-Stack-Replacement’ is interesting in its own right.) Sam Saffron Reducing String Duplication in Ruby “It is very likely your Rails application is full of duplicate strings, here are some tricks you can use to get rid of them.” ruby-lang Multiple Vulnerabilities in RubyGems 2.7.6 has been released to tackle several security issues. Time to gem update --system. Igor Kasyanchuk LogAnalyzer: A Rails Logs Analyzer Tool Get a picture of how fast (and how often) your views are rendering. Jobs Full Stack Engineer - (Paris, France)Come and join Europe’s #1 carsharing service, opening cars with smartphones. With almost 2M users in 6 countries, we’re looking to grow even more. Drivy Sr. Software Engineer (Full stack) - Finance ApplicationsJoin the Netflix Finance Tech team, and help build modern applications to support our global finance team. NETFLIX Find a Job You're Passionate AboutVettery connects you directly to hiring managers at over 4,000 top companies. Make a profile today and land your dream job. Vettery In brief Sinatra 2.0.1 Released news  Sinatra JRuby 9.1.16.0 Released news Minor tweaks and fixes, plus a RubyGems upgrade.  RubyxElixir Conf Taiwan 2018 (Apr 27-28) Tickets Now Available news  $20 Free on a New Linode Account  Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Get $20 credit on a new account.  Linode Cloud Hosting  Sponsored How to Fix Intermittent Test Failures tutorial Great tips for frustrating things like time-related tests or unstable sorting algorithms.  Sergey Potapov Running Rails Tests with Guard and Docker tutorial This used to be impractical but recent improvements have made running tests in Docker much better.  Chris Blunt How to Use Query Objects to Refactor Rails SQL Queries tutorial  Ivan Shamatov Deploying a Faktory Worker to AWS Fargate tutorial  Derek Haynes Syntactic Sugar Methods in Ruby tutorial  Tom de Bruijn Ruby String Literals vs Value Objects - Overengineering? tutorial  Igor Alexandrov Rails 5.2 Supports Specifying Default Value for a class_attribute tutorial  Vishal Telangre Four Continuous Delivery Metrics that Improve Your Pipeline opinion  GoCD  Sponsored What Does Object Orientation Afford? opinion  Sandi Metz Dig Deeper with Pry: Explore Ruby Internals tools TL;DR — you can now view the source for C identifiers in Pry.  John Mair Slow CI Build? Make It Run in 2 Minutes or Less with Boosters tools  Semaphore  Sponsored Surrealist 1.0: A Schema-Driven Object Serialization Library code Now supports ActiveRecord, ROM and Sequel.  Nikita Hm: An Idiomatic Ruby Hash Transformation DSL code An experimental work-in-progress to explore some ideas.  Victor Shepelev Makery: A Minimal Factory Library code  Kelly Stannard Facebook Cleaner: Deletes Old Facebook Content using Selenium code  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