Fwd: Ruby 2.3, Rails 5 beta1, and Ruby is 20 Years Old

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From: Ruby Weekly <rw at peterc.org>
Date: qui, 31 de dez de 2015 12:31
Subject: Ruby 2.3, Rails 5 beta1, and Ruby is 20 Years Old
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This week's Ruby and Rails news
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Weekly Issue 278 — December 31, 2015
Official Ruby Blog
Ruby 2.3.0 Released
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The first stable release of 2.3 is here, including many goodies
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such as the frozen string literal pragma, the safe navigation operator (&.),
did_you_mean, and a variety of performance tweaks.

David Heinemeier Hansson
Rails 5.0.0 Beta 1 Released
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Rails 5 is tantalizingly close (Basecamp already runs it in production) and
now it’s reached beta, it’s a good time to check it out if you haven’t
already.

JetBrain
A Look at 20 Years of Ruby
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Yes, Ruby is now 20 years old. JetBrains is celebrating with a quick
illustrated walk through the years (plus a sale on RubyMine).

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Damir Svrtan
Multi-Line Strings in Ruby 2.3 with the 'Squiggly' Heredoc
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Want to use the heredoc syntax for including a multi-line string, but
without the indentation headaches? You’ll love 2.3’s <<~ feature.

Chris Seaton
Specialising Dynamic Techniques for Implementing Ruby
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A PhD thesis from the creator of JRuby+Truffle
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about work and techniques to make Ruby significantly faster. Very low level
but this sort of reading is a rare treat.

Piotr Murach
TTY::Prompt: A Powerful Interactive Command Line Prompt
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Provides a variety of prompt types for taking user input (yes/no, multiple
choice, select, keypress, and more) and an API for validating complex
inputs.

David Heinemeier Hansson
A 20 Minute Demo of Action Cable by DHH
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A walkthrough of Rails 5's Action Cable WebSockets library by the creator
of Rails himself. You might also like this related article from Fabio Akita
<http://rubyweekly.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0618f6a79d6bb9675f313ceb2&id=b444d5232b&e=e94a93aae6>.

Maciej Mensfeld
Upgrading to Ruby on Rails 5.0 from Rails 4.2: An Example
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“In this article, I’ll try to cover all the issues I had, when I was
upgrading..."

Prathamesh Sonpatki
ApplicationRecord in Rails 5
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Till now, all models inherited from ActiveRecord::Base by default. But
starting from Rails 5, all models will inherit from ApplicationRecord
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Aaron Patterson
Inline Caching in MRI
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As a very dynamic language, Ruby has to look up what and where the methods
you call are. This is then cached *inline*, but what does the *inline* part
mean?

Mislav Marohnić
rbenv 1.0.0 Released: A Ruby Environment Manager
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Now over 4 years old
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rbenv (originally created by Sam Stephenson) has reached its major 1.0
milestone.

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In brief

   - A Few Questions with Matz about Ruby 2.3
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   Heroku
   - Rails 5 Now to Require Ruby 2.2.2 or Later
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    news
   GitHub
   - Free Webinar: Developing Web Applications with Docker
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   an overview of the Docker ecosystem and about how Docker works. At the end
   you will know how to develop a web application with Docker containers.
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   - How Ruby 2.2 Can Cause An Out-of-Memory Server Crash
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    news
   If you like walkthroughs of tricky bugs, this is for you.
   Alexey Gaziev
   - State of the 2016 Rails Stack
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    news
   What does the typical Rails stack look like nowadays? Most likely you’re
   running a Rails 4.2 app on Ruby 2.2 using Postgres, Redis, and Sidekiq.
   Derek Haynes
   - Simple Encryption of ActiveRecord Fields
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    tutorial
   Using ActiveRecord::Base.serialize and OpenSSL::Cipher.
   Kir Shatrov
   - Updating to Rails 5.0
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    tutorial
   Daniel Kehoe
   - Rails 5, Action Cable, Redux, and React: Walking Through An Example
   Chat Application
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    tutorial
   Will Little
   - Using RSpec Metadata to Control Spec Behavior Declaratively
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    tutorial
   Ross Kaffenberger
   - Refactoring in Ruby: TDD Your Way Through Extract Class
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   Ilija Eftimov
   - Introduction to Rails 5 Attributes
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    tutorial
   Jake Yesbeck
   - Switching From rbenv to ruby-install and chruby
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    tutorial
   Heidar
   - How Does ARGV Get Set in Ruby?
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    tutorial
   Starr Horne
   - How to Start A Rails Career From Zero in 2016
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    opinion
   Louis Goff-Beardsley
   - Ruboto (JRuby on Android) 1.4.0 Released
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   Ruboto Team
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   - diffy: Easy Diffing in Ruby
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   Rather than reinventing the wheel, it present an interface to Unix’s
   *diff*.
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   - Honeybadger 2015 Year in Review
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