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This Week's Ruby News - Issue 115
Ruby Weekly - A Weekly Ruby Newsletter Issue #115 - October 18, 2012 ================================================================================ Featured -------- Ruby 1.9.3-p286 Released http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/ruby-1-9-3-p2... The latest, official production patch-level release of MRI 1.9 is out. The primary motivation was for fixing a couple of security vulnerabilities and a handful of bugs. A Whirlwind Tour of Rails 4 http://vimeo.com/51181496 Andy Lindeman presents a 40 minute tour of some of the forthcoming Rails 4's new features, including strong_parameters, Russian Doll caching, PATCH verb support, removal of Rails 2 finder syntax, and more. Recording and audio quality is very good. JRuby 1.7.0 Release Candidate 2 Released http://www.jruby.org/2012/10/09/jruby-1-7-0-RC2 From Our Sponsor ---------------- Bugrocket - A Simple Hosted Bug Tracker for Small Teams https://bugrocket.com/?src=rubyweekly1 Many bug trackers have so many features and cover so many use-cases that the lines between things like project management and bug tracking become blurred. We think that's a bad idea, so we created Bugrocket - a lean bug tracker that is only a bug tracker. Now, back to code! Reading ------- 7 Ways to Decompose Fat ActiveRecord Models http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2012/10/17/7-ways-to-dec... Some handy tips and examples on breaking apart 'fat models' into separate objects that each encapsulate a concept. So You Want To Optimize Ruby http://blog.headius.com/2012/10/so-you-want-to-optimize-r... Charles Nutter of the JRuby core team explains some of the 'hard problems' Ruby implementations need to solve before getting all gung-ho with benchmarks. Try and Try Again: Using the Null Object Pattern in Ruby http://jonathan-jackson.net/2012/10/15/try-and-try-again Gem Developers: Let The User Choose The JavaScript Engine http://blog.sensible.io/post/33424749719/gem-developers-l... Visualising the Ruby Global VM Lock http://johnleach.co.uk/words/1245/visualising-the-ruby-gl... Explain: A Ruby Source to Natural Language Compiler http://blog.txus.io/2012/10/expressing-ruby-code-in-natur... An interesting experiment in automatically converting Ruby code to English prose. Would You Like A Mobile App With That? http://schneems.com/post/33781154129/would-you-like-a-mob... Want to build your first Rails API-backed iPhone app? Follow along with Richard Schneeman here. End-to-End Testing With RSpec Integration Tests and Capybara http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/33771089985/rspec-integ... Object-Oriented File Importing and Parsing in Ruby http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/33362333571/object-orie... Lazy User Registration for Rails Apps http://highgroove.com/articles/2012/10/09/lazy-user-regis... Goes into the concept of having your auth system providing an omnipresent anonymous user which can then be 'upgraded' to a regular user when the visitor chooses. Better Specs: A Collection of Guidelines for RSpec Users http://betterspecs.org/ An Interview with Xavier Noria, The Code Gardener http://rubysource.com/xavier-noria-the-code-gardener/ Xavier Noria (a Ruby Hero and Rails core contributor) faces Pat Shaughnessy for an interview about how he got started with Ruby and Rails, what's coming in Rails 4.0, and more. Watching and Listening ---------------------- Ruby's Symbols Explained http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBXGBbEbXZY Never quite got your head around how Ruby's symbols work and what they represent? Here's a video from my Ruby Reloaded course now available to watch on YouTube. Libraries and Code ------------------ Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler http://opalrb.org/ A source-to-source compiler (so no special VM required) and the compiled code aims to be fast and efficient by mapping directly to underlying JavaScript features and objects where possible. Not the first such experiment but well presented. Selfstarter: Roll Your Own Crowdfunding http://selfstarter.us/ A project called Lockitron raised $1.9m recently in a crowdfunding campaign. They had to build their own Kickstarter-esque software as Kickstarter rejected them and.. it's in Rails and they've shared the source. Fun with Unicode Math in Ruby http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2012/10/11/fun-wi... Want to use Unicode's square root, sine, fraction, infinity, pi, or other mathematical symbols in your Ruby code? The unicode_math gem gets you there. AngularJS Scaffolding for Rails http://blog.ricodigo.com/blog/2012/10/14/announcing-the-r... node-mruby: Embedding Ruby into Node.js https://github.com/tokuhirom/node-mruby mruby is an embeddable Ruby interpreter and node-mruby makes it possible to embed mruby into Node.js. Very much a prototype/work in progress for the curious. rouge: A Clojure implementation on Ruby https://github.com/unnali/rouge Elastictastic: Object-Document Mapper and API Adapter for ElasticSearch https://github.com/brewster/elastictastic Redis Failover 1.0: ZooKeeper-based Master/Slave Automatic Failover https://github.com/ryanlecompte/redis_failover Exception Notification 3.0.0: Exception Notifier Plugin for Rails http://smartinez87.github.com/exception_notification/ Cequel: CQL Query Builder and Object-Row Mapper for Apache Cassandra https://github.com/brewster/cequel Jobs ---- Ruby Engineer https://gist.github.com/1f66b372f4967de941c4 Zendesk is looking for a Ruby engineer to join a team in San Francisco that's focused on improving the application from the inside out. We care about elegant code and we are passionate about shipping great software - just like you. Senior Architect at American College of Physicians [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/749983 Foodie Rails Developer Wanted at America's Test Kitchen [Brookline, Massachusetts] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/751399 Last but not least.. -------------------- rubytune: Rails Shop Specializing in Performance and Troubleshooting http://rubytune.com/ Joshua Sierles (ex-37signals) and Sudara Williams (ex-Engine Yard) have launched a consultancy focused on providing scaling, performance and server advice for Rails developers. The British Ruby Conference: Standard Tickets Now on Sale http://2013.britruby.com/ Rubyists like Avdi Grimm, Russ Olsen, Dr Nic Williams, Aaron Patterson (and many more!) will be in Manchester, England in March 2013. Join us by grabbing a ticket now. Rails Rumble Judging Has Just Hours to Go (Vote Now!) http://blog.railsrumble.com/2012/10/15/let-the-judging-be... Judging ends in a mere 10 hours or so, so if you want to get your votes in, head over there ASAP. ================================================================================ You opted in for Ruby Weekly at http://rubyweekly.com/ to get weekly e-mails about the Ruby programming language. Our mailing address is: Office 30, Lincoln Way, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, Lincs, UK, LN11 9EJ. You can e-mail the list maintainer directly at rw@peterc.org in case of problems/questions. (Log in to post comments)
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