Fwd: This week's Ruby news, issue 270

Thu Oct 29 19:19:40 BRST 2015

a lot of good stuff.

cheers,
bráulio

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Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:04 PM
Subject: This week's Ruby news, issue 270
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This week's Ruby and Rails news
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Weekly Issue 270 — October 29, 2015
Rails Rumble
Rails Rumble 2015 Registration Now Open
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The popular online Ruby (it’s not just Rails) hackathon starts on November
7th. If you win, a rather epic boxing-style belt
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could be yours.

Jamis Buck
Bulk Inserts in ActiveRecord
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Jamis Buck shows off BulkInsert (*BuckInsert*, surely? ;-)), an
ActiveRecord extension to make it quicker to insert 1000s of rows at a time
using batch INSERTs.

Janko Marohnić
Shrine: A New File Upload Toolkit for Ruby Apps
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Shrine
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is a new plugin-driven solution for handling file uploads in Ruby apps that
aims to provide a very simple interface for developers.

Bloc IO  Sponsored
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Learn every component of an application: the database, server and
client-side code, and front-end markup. Bloc is an immersive,
outcome-oriented online program with 1-on-1 mentorship, learning by
building real applications, and career support.

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Calle Erlandsson
Using ARGF and ARGV
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ARGF gives you files referenced in command line arguments *or* passed in
over standard input.

Jason Cummings
Lets Write Some Bad Ruby
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This sort of ad-hoc ‘scripting’ style programming is my Ruby bread and
butter nowadays. Ruby is amazing for once-off jobs as shown here.

Brian Shirai
Rubinius, Inc - A Benefit Company
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Brian Shirai, famous for his work on Rubinius, the highly concurrent Ruby
implementation, has founded a socially-beneficial company to focus on
Rubinius’ ongoing development.

Robb Shecter
The Cryptic 'X for Y' Error Is Becoming Friendlier
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You’ve no doubt seen “wrong number of arguments (3 for 2)” errors before.
Now they’ll be (given 3, expected 2) instead.
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A minor but welcome change.

Leigh Halliday
Deploying Your Docker Rails App
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Once you’ve got your Rails app into a Docker container, how can you get it
quickly and simply deployed? (In this case, on Heroku.)

Jobs

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In brief

   - Extreme Object-Oriented Ruby
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    video
   John Cinnamond stretches Ruby’s object orientation features to their
   computational limits.
   Full Stack Fest 2015
   - Bootstrapping a Business Around Open Source
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    video
   Ever wondered how the Passenger guys bootstrapped Phusion?
   O'Reilly OSCON
   - Hate Fixing Bugs? Lucky You. We Love It.
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   Tackling technical debt and integrating disparate systems is fun, too.
   (Yes, really.)
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   - Cool Ruby Regex Tricks
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    tutorial
   I have a huge soft spot for regular expressions. Starr shows off an
   eclectic handful of quick tricks.
   Starr Horne
   - Layering API Defenses With Caching
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    tutorial
   Parker Selbert
   - How to Traverse Foreign Ruby Code
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    tutorial
   Jake Yesbeck
   - How to Apply RuboCop to Your Large Rails Codebase
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    tutorial
   A look at using HoundCI, a continuous integration tool for code style,
   along with the RuboCop Ruby static code analyzer.
   Benjamin Fritsch
   - How to Deploy a Rails Application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with
   Semaphore
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    tutorial
   Jelena Keravica
   - 4 Ways to Parse a JSON API in Ruby
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    tutorial
   Using net/http, HTTParty, rest-client, and Faraday.
   Greg Baugues
   - Heroku Style Application Deployments with Docker
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    tutorial
   Lauri Nevala
   - Remove N+1 Queries in Your Rails App
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    tutorial
   Edvards Lazdāns
   - Prevent Information Leaking in Rails
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    tutorial
   A very quick tip to prevent browsers from caching pages, if you wish.
   Greg Molnar
   - Sidekiq 4.0.0.pre1 Now Available
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    tools news
   Not the final version but just use gem 'sidekiq', '4.0.0.pre1' if you
   want to get testing.
   Mike Perham
   - Jekyll 3.0 Released: The Ruby Static Site Generator
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    tools news
   Even outside of the Ruby world, Jekyll is one of the most powerful and
   well used static site generators.
   - Redis Performance Dashboard and Autoscaling from RedisGreen
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    tools
   Seamless scaling and analytics backed by support from engineers who have
   been scaling Redis for years.
   RedisGreen   Sponsored
   - i18n-tasks: Helps You Find and Manage Missing and Unused Translations
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    code
   Essentially static analysis for internationalization.
   Gleb Mazovetskiy

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