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This Week's Ruby News - Issue 122
Ruby Weekly - A Weekly Ruby Newsletter Issue #122 - December 6, 2012 ================================================================================ Featured -------- Status of 'Refinements' in Forthcoming Ruby 2.0 Uncertain https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4085#note-175 Straight from Matz: "Since there still remain undefined corner case behavior in refinements, and the time is running out, I decided not to introduce full refinement for Ruby 2.0." More generally, there's a lot of debate going on around the role of refinements in Ruby 2.0 and whether they should even be included at all. Matz says a final decision is expected 'within a few weeks.' A Simple Tour of the Ruby MRI Source Code with Pat Shaughnessy [video] http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-mri-code-walk-tour-6020.html Pat Shaughnessy (author of Ruby Under a Microscope) and I recently sat down and took a tour of the MRI Ruby codebase. It's specifically for people who've not looked much under the hood and it'll help you'll pick up a few things about how classes and methods are defined and what goes where in MRI. #inspect 2013: The RubyMotion Conference http://www.rubymotion.com/conference/ RubyMotion, the Ruby implementation and toolkit for Apple's iOS devices, was only launched back in May but it already has its first conference and set of public workshops planned for March 2013 in Brussels, Belgium. From Our Sponsor ---------------- Custom instrumentation for all your Ruby needs http://promo.metrics.librato.com/ruby/?utm_source=rubywee... How fast is that operation really? Librato makes custom benchmarking dead simple so you get hard data on every aspect of your production application. Track down pain points with ease, use custom alerting to stay in the know, and share beautiful graphs with your coworkers. Try it free. Reading ------- The 12 Gems of Christmas http://www.mikeperham.com/2012/12/01/12-gems-of-christmas... It's still some time till the true 12 days of Christmas are but nonetheless Mike Perham has kicked off a fine series of 12 posts each looking at an interesting gem that might have passed under your radar. He starts with awesome_nested_set. A Rails 4 Countdown to 2013 http://blog.remarkablelabs.com/2012/11/rails-4-countdown-... The Remarkable Labs Blog has kicked off a 31 post series 'going over everything you will need to know about Rails 4' by the time it comes out. There are already 5 posts to enjoy. SystemTap and Ruby 2.0 http://avsej.net/2012/systemtap-and-ruby-20/ A look at using Ruby 2.0's dtrace support in Linux with SystemTap. Advanced stuff. Processing Paypal Recurring Payments with Ruby http://rubyitalianstyle.it/post/37217199474/paypal-recurr... HTTP Caching in Ruby with Rails https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-caching-ruby-r... Vincent Spehner has updated the Heroku Dev Center's comprehensive guide to HTTP caching functionality for Rails 3. Exploit Information Leaks in Random Numbers from Python, Ruby and PHP https://spideroak.com/blog/20121205114003-exploit-informa... Watching and Listening ---------------------- Ruby HTTP Clients Comparison http://confreaks.com/videos/1271-rubyconf2012-ruby-http-c... At RubyConf 2012, Hiroshi Nakamura compared several of the many Ruby HTTP client libraries. Dissecting a Ruby Block http://confreaks.com/videos/1286-rubyconf2012-dissecting-... Explore Ruby's internal implementation of blocks, lambdas, procs and bindings. Learn how closures and metaprogramming are related in Ruby internals. Discover what metaclasses and singleton classes are and how Ruby uses them. krypt: The Next Level of Ruby Cryptography http://confreaks.com/videos/1311-rubyconf2012-krypt-the-n... Martin Boßlet talks about krypt which aims to become 'the successor of the OpenSSL extension.' Learn about why we need a successor at all, about the evils of OpenSSL certificate validation and how krypt will improve all this, running without restrictions on any Ruby platform. An Introduction to Cloud 66: An Intriguing Deployment Service http://vimeo.com/54524424 <a href="https://www.cloud66.com/">Cloud 66</a> is an intriguing new deployment service that can deploy apps to cloud services or do all the setup and deployment to your own servers. Getting Started with Rack (in 5 Minutes) http://metabates.com/2012/12/02/getting-started-with-rack... In just 5 minutes, Mark Bates explores the Rack framework, which backs Rails, Sinatra, and other Ruby webapp systems, shows off a one line Rack application and moves on to write an ultra simple web 'framework'. Inside RubyMotion http://confreaks.com/videos/1298-rubyconf2012-inside-ruby... Rich Kilmer covered the RubyMotion iOS development toolchain in a 50 minute talk at RubyConf 2012 and explained how it works and what you can do with it. It's Not Cucumber, It's You http://www.livestream.com/pivotallabs/video?clipId=pla_d3... From Pivotal Labs' Tuesday Tech Talks comes Matthew Parker with a talk for Cucumber users that digs into Cucumber's history, quirks, pitfalls, and some tips and tricks. The Ruby Rogues Discuss Vagrant with Michael Ries http://rubyrogues.com/082-rr-vagrant-with-michael-ries/ The updated, more diverse Rogues chat about Vagrant, a tool that makes it super easy to set up virtualized development environments you can deploy your code to for local testing. Libraries and Code ------------------ Gitnesse: Wiki-Powered Acceptance Testing http://hybridgroup.github.com/gitnesse/ A tool that stores the Cucumber feature stories for your project in a git-based wiki, tests them against your code, and can then update that wiki with the latest results. Huey: Discovery and Control of Philips Hue Lightbulbs from Ruby https://github.com/Veraticus/huey Incredibly niche but I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of Philips' full-color network-controllable lights here in the UK and this library might let me do some fun things ;-) HipsterStruct: A New Way for Creating Objects in Rails http://gistflow.com/posts/554-hipsterstruct-new-way-for-c... Chordy: A Ruby DSL for Printing Guitar Chord Diagrams https://github.com/darth10/chordy Jobs ---- Principal Ruby Consultant at IMPRTL Inc [Telecommute or Chicago, IL] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/769030 Senior Web Developer (incl. Rails) at Church Initiative [Wake Forest, NC] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/760329 Rails Developer at CSD [Austin, TX] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/766252 Gifted Rails Engineer and Technologist at Chelsmore Apartments [New York City] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/771110 Last but not least.. -------------------- Last Week's Ruby Weekly: Issue 121 http://rubyweekly.com/archive/121.html For as-yet unknown reasons, last week's issue failed to make it to many Gmail-using readers, so if you missed it, check it out. There was some cool stuff :-) ================================================================================ 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. 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