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This Week's Ruby News - Issue 135
Ruby Weekly - A Weekly Ruby Newsletter Issue #135 - March 7, 2013 ================================================================================ Featured -------- Matz on Ruby 2.0 https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/3/6/matz_highlights... Matz spoke about Ruby 2.0 ('the happiest release ever') for 30 minutes at the Heroku Waza event a week ago and the video is already available to watch. He stresses that "Ruby 1.8 will die soon" and encourages everyone to upgrade. Dynamic Method Definitions http://tenderlovemaking.com/2013/03/03/dynamic_method_def... Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson says that "depending on your app, using define_method is faster on boot, consumes less memory, and probably doesn’t signigicantly impact performance" compared to eval-based techniques. (And he has the numbers to prove it.) Steel City Ruby Conference 2013 CFP Now Open http://steelcityruby.org/cfp.html Steel City Ruby takes places in Pittsburgh, PA on August 16-17 and the CFP is now open if you want to submit a talk. The Burlington Ruby Conference has <a href="http://burlingtonruby.com/speak.html">a CFP open too</a>, as <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=tr...">does RubyConf India.</a> RubyGems 2.0.1 Released: A Bug-Fix Release http://blog.rubygems.org/2013/03/05/2.0.1-released.html From our Sponsor ---------------- How great teams deliver better apps with continuous integration https://semaphoreapp.com/?utm_source=rubyweekly&utm_m... One moment to let Semaphore autoconfigure a project from GitHub. Another to invite your collaborators. Platform is based on dedicated hardware and works with all major dependencies out of the box. Sign up for a free trial and see how fast your tests will pass. Reading ------- Inspecting Rails 4 using Ruby 2.0 and TracePoint http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2013/03/05/inspecting-rai... Matt Aimonetti shows off a practical use for Ruby 2.0's TracePoint execution tracing functionality. Visualizing Memory Leaks in Ruby 1.9 http://cirw.in/blog/find-references Conrad Irwin on some clever work to extend ObjectSpace with a new find_references method to perform better analysis on object and memory usage on Ruby 1.9. Parsing TOML in Ruby with Parslet http://zerowidth.com/2013/02/24/parsing-toml-in-ruby-with... Recently, GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner created an interesting INI-influenced 'TOML' format. In this series of posts, Nathan Witmer looks at what's involved in building a parser for TOML using the Parslet PEG parser construction library. Introducing Ress: A System for Building Mobile Optimized Rails Apps https://github.com/matthewrobertson/ress Matthew Robertson introduces his new system for building mobile-optimized Rails applications using semantic, media query-based device detection and server side component optimization. Ruby 2.0 Walkthrough: The Best Bits https://speakerdeck.com/peterc/ruby-2-dot-0-walkthrough-t... Some slides from my yet-to-be-released 'Ruby 2.0 Walkthrough' that quickly skim through what I consider to be the 'best bits' (and not just the headline features). A Practical Guide to Using Signed Ruby Gems - Part 1: Bundler http://blog.meldium.com/home/2013/3/3/signed-rubygems-part Rails + Ember.js http://www.devmynd.com/blog/2013-3-rails-ember-js An introduction to the open source Ember.js JavaScript app framework for Rails developers. Effective Rails, Part 2: Hiding ActiveRecord http://www.devmynd.com/blog/2013-3-effective-rails-part-2... Watching and Listening ---------------------- Sinatra in SIX Lines: How to Do Crazy Stuff with Ruby http://vimeo.com/61087285 A talk by Konstantin Haase at Ruby Australia. Libraries and Code ------------------ Phusion Passenger 4.0 Release Candidate 4 http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/03/05/phusion-passenger-4-0-r... Leading Rack-based app deployment tool Passenger gets yet another step closer to the 4.0 release. time-lord: A Human DSL for Time Expressions http://krainboltgreene.github.com/time-lord/ A gem that gives you more human like expressions for time and space math. Get fun like <code>1.hour.ago.to_range</code> and <code>200.minutes.ago.to_words</code> identity_cache: Opt-in Read-through ActiveRecord Caching, From Shopify https://github.com/Shopify/identity_cache IdentityCache lets you specify how you want to cache your model objects, at the model level, and adds a number of convenience methods for accessing those objects through the cache. Uses Memcached as the backend cache store. neg 1.1.0: A Small PEG Parser Library http://jmettraux.github.com/2013-02-28-neg.html "One could say it’s a small brother of Parslet." Gridhook: A Rails Engine to Provide An Endpoint for SendGrid Webhooks https://github.com/injekt/gridhook Gem Attack: Show Post-Initialization Notifications on Your Released Gems http://a.ttack.tk/ Jobs ---- Web Application Developer for Big Nerd Ranch http://bignerdranch.theresumator.com/apply/PPxl0c/Web-App... Seeking smart, kind folks who want to make the world a little better through developing, training and writing about cutting-edge code. JS / Ruby Developer at ReplayPoker (Full-Time, Remote) http://replaypoker.theresumator.com/apply/Supv29/JS-Rails... Looking for a challenge? Our company is looking for a top-notch junior to mid level developer to join our small team and make a big difference! Senior Ruby/Rails Developer at HotelTonight [San Francisco, California] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/790480 Software Engineer at Goodreads [San Francisco, California] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/794026 Last but not least.. -------------------- RTanque: A Robot Programming Game for Rubyists https://github.com/awilliams/RTanque Players program the 'brain' of a tank and then send their tank into battle with other bots. Based upon the Java project 'Robocode.' ================================================================================ 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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