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This Week's Ruby News - Issue 118
Ruby Weekly - A Weekly Ruby Newsletter Issue #118 - November 8, 2012 ================================================================================ Featured -------- My 'Ruby 2.0 Walkthrough' Kickstarter Campaign http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1225193080/the-ruby-2... My Ruby 1.9 Walkthrough remains a thorough way for Ruby 1.8 developers to get up to speed with 1.9 but 2.0 is now just around the corner. I've started a Kickstarter campaign to both give you a great deal plus give me all the social pressure required to get it done right and to the expected quality :-) Rubinius 2.0.0 Release Candidate 1 https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius/commit/d19e086d013e7... Sadly the Rubinius blog seems to be on hiatus but plenty of people noticed Rubinius 2.0.0rc1 has been tagged. Rubinius is an alternative Ruby implementation largely written in a subset of Ruby itself and the 2.0 release brings 1.9 syntax to the fore. Amazon Adds Ruby Support to AWS Elastic Beanstalk http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/aws-elastic-beanstalk-... Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk service provides a way to quickly deploy and manage apps within AWS's cloud of services (EC2, S3, etc.) It now supports Ruby apps by using Phusion's Passenger (I hope Amazon are paying Phusion handsomely for this :-)) From Our Sponsor ---------------- Get code quality metrics and alerts on every Git push http://launchbit.com/taz/358-2793-9659df23b6 Break free from technical debt. Code Climate analyzes each commit and instantly notifies your team of code quality issues and improvements via Campfire, email or RSS. Try it free for 14 days and get 25% off your first three months. Still free for OSS! <img src="*%7CLBPIXEL%7C**%7CEMAIL_UID%7C*"> Reading ------- Yet Another Ruby Shootout: MRI 1.9.3 vs MRI 2.0 vs Rubinius 2.0 http://igor-alexandrov.github.com/blog/2012/11/05/yet-ano... Igor Alexandrov picks up where Antonio Cangiano left off by benchmarking MRI 1.9.3-p286, MRI 2.0.0-preview1 and Rubinius 2.0.0-rc1. As always with benchmarks, don't read too deeply but it seems Ruby 2.0.0 holds its own so far. 'require is slow in its bookkeeping; can make Rails startup 2.2x faster' http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7158 An issue on the official MRI issue tracker that shares a patch which can improve the performance of 'require'. Follows on to the work seen optimizing code loading in Ruby 1.9.3 in June 2011. Ruby 2.0 Preview Available on Heroku http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2012/11/5/ruby-2-preview-... It's still only a preview so don't pull out your production apps yet, but Heroku's polyglot stack supports Ruby 2.0 preview 1 without much work at all. Reinventing Wheels of Future: Matz's RubyConf Keynote Slides https://speakerdeck.com/yukihiro_matz/reinventhing-wheels... No technical content as such but Matz celebrates the reinventing of wheels and confesses his love for PHP. Worth a quick swipe through for the sentiments. Game Development and Ruby https://speakerdeck.com/cadwallion/game-development-and-ruby Another slide-deck from RubyConf, this time sharing some options and opinions on game development in Ruby. RubyConf Roundup: Day One http://leone.panopticdev.com/2012/11/rubyconf-roundup-day... If you missed RubyConf, here are some handy notes for the talks that Mike Leone attended. RubyConf Roundup: Day Two http://leone.panopticdev.com/2012/11/rubyconf-roundup-day... Dead Simple Login System for Rails Apps with OmniAuth and Facebook http://blog.ragingstudios.com/blog/2012/10/24/absolutely-... In just six special steps with Gal Steinitz. Let's Not: Refactoring RSpec Specs with Plain Ruby Methods http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/34709581001/lets-not A look at using plain Ruby methods rather than DSL constructs with RSpec. Thinking in Objects https://speakerdeck.com/joshsusser/thinking-in-objects-ru... Josh Susser drops some object orientation principles on us in his RubyConf 2012 slides. Building a Peer-to-Peer Chat System using Multicasting in Ruby http://tx.pignata.com/2012/11/multicast-in-ruby-building-... IP multicasting allows you to send a datagram to multiple recipients on a network. In this post John Pignata looks at multicasting and creates a simple chat system using Ruby's socket library. Instructions to Install Ruby 2.0.0-preview1 on OS X with Homebrew and rbenv https://gist.github.com/4014963 Delegation on a Method by Method Basis with Forwardable http://brainspec.com/blog/2012/11/07/delegation-with-forw... Traitor: An Implementation of Traits for Ruby 2.0 http://blog.txus.io/2012/11/traitor-an-implementation-of-... ActiveResource Is Dead, Long Live ActiveResource http://yetimedia.tumblr.com/post/35233051627/activeresour... Watching and Listening ---------------------- RailsCasts Digs Into Rails 4.0's Turbolinks http://railscasts.com/episodes/390-turbolinks A 7 minute tour of 'turbolinks' (as will feature prominently in Rails 4.0) with Ryan Bates. The Farmhouse Podcast: Rubyist Talk from Los Angeles http://farmhouse.la/podcast Hard to describe but I've been enjoying this podcast from The Farmhouse. The latest episode features Shane Becker and Evan Phoenix discussing the Puma Ruby Web server. Steve Klabnik features on two earlier episodes. RubyConf 2012 Lightning Talks: An 80 Minute Grab Bag http://www.justin.tv/confreaks/b/337863983 The Thoughtbot Podcast Chats to RubyConf 2012 Attendees http://www.thoughtbot.com/podcast/20 Libraries and Code ------------------ Espresso: A New Scalable Web Framework Aimed at Speed and Simplicity https://github.com/slivu/espresso I don't think we've had a new Ruby framework for a while so.. enter Espresso :-) Has a few interesting ideas but without being too alien to existing Rails, Ramaze, or Sinatra fans. Ruboto 0.9: The JRuby on Android Platform https://github.com/ruboto/ruboto/wiki/Ruboto-0.9.0-releas... Now supports Ruby classes directly subclassing Java classes. A Simplified Version of Ruby's Object System, Implemented in Ruby https://gist.github.com/4009812 A clever experiment by James Coglan. It's intended to model inheritance and method lookup in as little code as possible, for ease of understanding by Rubyists. Chili: A Spicy 'Feature Toggle' Framework for Rails http://balvig.github.com/chili/ Redtape: A Cleaner Alternative to accepts_nested_attributes_for in Rails https://github.com/ClearFit/redtape Jobs ---- Sr. Rails Engineer at VMware Socialcast (San Francisco) http://bit.ly/RmXHA7 Socialcast is looking for a passionate, experienced Ruby and Rails Engineer to join our growing Engineering team! Continue your career in a start-up atmosphere focusing on fast experimentation with the latest technologies and frameworks (Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9). Ruby on Rails Developer at Litmus (Remote, anywhere!) http://litmus.com/careers Litmus, the e-mail testing and analytics company, offering a great salary, full health care benefits and 28 days paid vacation. We're looking for great developers wherever you live in the world. Come and see what our team have to say about working here. Sr. Ruby on Rails Developer at ARPC [District of Columbia] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/754287 Last but not least.. -------------------- The British Ruby Conference: Giving 15% for Movember http://2013.britruby.com/ The British Ruby Conference is in Manchester, England in March 2013 with lots of lovely speakers (and I'll be there!) and for this month only will be giving 15% of ticket sales to the Movember cause. Come join in the fun. ================================================================================ 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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