This Week's Ruby News - Issue 100

Ruby Weekly - A Weekly Ruby Newsletter
Issue #100 - July 5, 2012
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From the Editor's Desk..
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Welcome to issue 100 of Ruby Weekly! Somehow the big 'one hundred' snuck up
on me and I haven't got a contest, a celebration or.. anything. So in the
spirit of The Simpsons' '138th Episode Spectacular' I'll do something later
;-) Thanks for reading and your continued support - Peter.


Headlines
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Ruby 1.8.7-p370 Released: The Last Bug Fix Release for 1.8.7
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/06/29/ruby-1-8-7-p3...

  Still using 1.8.7? Right on schedule, this is your last bug fix release,
  with only security fixes available for the next year before 1.8.7 is
  abandoned entirely.

The Ruby OpenSource Challenge
http://rubyosc.com/


  Backed by a large variety of prize givers and sponsors, the Ruby OpenSource
  Challenge encourages you to help improve the Active Admin project.

RubyShift 2012: Ukrainian Ruby Conference, September 29-30
http://rubyshift.org/


  Call for proposals and registration are now both open.

The Ruby Greener Test Challenge (A Windows Challenge)
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyinstaller/A92K_EYJX2A...

  Luis Lavena is well known for his efforts to make Ruby better on the
  Windows platform, and he's put out a call to action to clean up the 9
  failures and 2 errors in MRI's test suite.


From Our Sponsor
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MagicRuby - A Ruby conference *inside* Walt Disney World!
http://magic-ruby.com/


  Join us October 5 and 6, 20120 for MagicRuby 2012. This year we're dropping
  some knowledge inside of Disney's Hollywood Studios Theme Park! Our CFP and
  registration (only $199 - $49 for Disney passholders) are OPEN, so head
  over to our site for more info.


Reading
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Constant Stubbing in RSpec 2.11
http://myronmars.to/n/dev-blog/2012/06/constant-stubbing-...

  It's not out yet but Myron Marston gives us a look at a new feature coming
  to the forthcoming RSpec 2.11: the ability to stub constants.

Adding SMS Capabilities to Your Rails App With Twilio
http://rubysource.com/adding-sms-capabilities-to-your-rai...

Vim for Ruby on Rails (and A Sexy Theme!)
http://astonj.com/tech/vim-for-ruby-rails-and-a-sexy-theme/


  Last week's link to using Sublime Text 2 was popular but this week's turn
  is Vim! Aston J aims to show off why Vim is a good choice for Rails
  development along with a bevy of commands.

9 FactoryGirl Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls
http://arjanvandergaag.nl/blog/factory_girl_tips.html


Quick Intro to Mechanize: Interact With the Web From Your Source Code
http://www.commented-out.com/2012/07/03/rubymechanize-int...


Watching
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Exporting CSV and Excel From A Rails App: Railscasts
http://railscasts.com/episodes/362-exporting-csv-and-excel



Libraries and Code
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Barkeep: An Open Source Code Review System
http://getbarkeep.org/


  Billing itself as a "friendly code review system", Barkeep is a self hosted
  tool to do code reviews on your projects. It can watch commits made to any
  Git repository, see diffs, write comments, and have comments e-mailed to
  your collaborators.

Flowdock Open Sources 'Oulu': An EventMachine-Driven IRC Gateway
http://blog.flowdock.com/2012/06/26/open-sourcing-hosted-...

  Flowdock, a collaboration app with chat support, has open sourced their
  EventMachine-based IRC gateway. Could come in particularly handy if you
  want to integrate IRC with your own apps.

OmniContacts: Rack Middleware for Importing E-mail Contacts
https://github.com/Diego81/omnicontacts


  A library that enables users of an application to import contacts from
  their email accounts (currently supports Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.) As a
  Rack middleware, you can use with any Rack-based framework, including
  Rails.

Seedbank: Organize Your Rails App's 'Seed Data'
https://github.com/james2m/seedbank


  Seedbank allows you to structure your Rails seed data instead of having it
  all dumped into one large file.

Rack-Policy: Middleware for Complying With the EU ePrivacy Directive
https://github.com/peter-murach/rack-policy


  If you're not based in the EU, you can ignore this idiotic piece of
  legislation but otherwise Rack-Policy helps your Ruby webapps comply with
  getting implied consent before any cookies can be stored on your visitors'
  machines.

Image Sorcery: A Ruby ImageMagick Library 'That Doesn't Suck'
https://github.com/EricR/image_sorcery


  Image Sorcery leverages all three of ImageMagick's command line tools,
  mogrify, convert, and identify, to give you image processing functionality,
  minus the memory leaks. (Looks a lot like MiniMagick on the surface.)

Periscope: Expose Your Scopes to the World
https://github.com/laserlemon/periscope


  Periscope makes it easy to chain your scopes from the query parameters on
  your index actions. Includes support for ActiveRecord, MongoMapper, Mongoid
  and DataMapper.

Twitter Gem Hits Version 3.0
https://github.com/jnunemaker/twitter/blob/master/CHANGEL...

  The popular 'twitter' gem has reached version 3.0 (now at 3.0.2). Only a
  changelog to go on but lots of changes you'll need to be aware of if you
  use the library.

Concensus: Ruby Library to Read US Census TIGER/Line Shapefiles
https://github.com/adamjacobbecker/concensus


Ruby OpenSSL Cheat Sheet
https://github.com/augustl/ruby-openssl-cheat-sheet


  August Lilleaas shares a collection of examples for using Ruby's OpenSSL
  bindings (as found in the Ruby standard library).


Jobs
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Rails Developer at OneLogin [San Francisco]
http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/715321


  Join a team of Ruby engineers building the industry's easiest-to-use
  Identity and Access Management solution for enterprises. 2-3 years of
  experience with Rails necessary and community involvement a big plus.

Senior Ruby Developer at Zooppa [Seattle, Washington]
http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/700095


Senior Rails Engineer at ITT Exelis [Dulles, Virginia]
http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/700946


DevOps Engineer at OneLogin [San Francisco]
http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/715317



Last but not least..
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What Is Your Primary Text Editor for Ruby Development?
http://gopollgo.com/what-is-your-primary-text-editor-for-...

  Now at over 4,000 votes, this poll is an interesting look at what text
  editors Rubyists are using. It looks like the era of TextMate has truly
  passed.



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