An overview of Ruby GUI development in 2018

Jobs

• Full-Stack Rails Engineer (San Francisco)Join Instacart's world-class engineering team (just 150 people). Help us scale across North America. Enjoy lots of autonomy. Instacart
• Full Stack Engineer - (Paris, France)Come and join Europe’s #1 carsharing service, opening cars with smartphones. With almost 2M users in 6 countries, we’re looking to grow even more. Drivy
• Open To Hearing About New Ruby Jobs?Try Underdog.io, where hundreds of the best tech companies go to meet top Ruby engineers. Companies email you directly as soon as next Monday. Underdog.io

In brief

• Parallel Testing Coming in Rails 6.0 news
  A pull request (and great conversation) adding a parallelize method to ActiveSupport::TestCase. 
  Ruby on Rails
• Coinbase Funding Ruby Projects with its Open Source Fund news 
  The Coinbase Engineering Blog
• Pro Tip for Your First Pipeline: Managing Build Versions in GoCD tutorial
  Managing build versions is key when designing CD pipelines. This example web service shows you how to get started. 
  GoCD  Sponsored
• Deduplicating Large Data With Rails tutorial 
  Cheyne Wallace
• Ruby 2.5's New Exception#full_message Method tutorial 
  Vishal Telangre
• Fix Slow Active Record SQL Queries in Rails tutorial
  New Relic, PgHero, and EXPLAIN ANALYZE are your allies in this fight. 
  Paweł Urbanek
• Ruby Testing Micro-Course tutorial
  Four lessons to get you started with testing using RSpec and plain Ruby. 
  Jason Swett
• The Proxy Pattern Revisited tutorial
  Trading out method_missing for prepend. 
  Fred Heath
• Run Capybara Feature Specs with Selenium and Headless Chrome tutorial
  A CircleCI 2.0 case study. 
  Artur Trzop
• How We Started using Redux-Form in our Rails Apps tutorial 
  Andrey Suhomozgy
• Yes, Ruby 1.9 Can Support TLSv1.2 tutorial
  Handy if you still need to keep Ruby 1.9 apps running. 
  Mike Herrera
• Updating Dependencies Sucks, So Let’s Do More of That   
  Depfu  Sponsored
• How to Develop a Facebook Messenger Bot in Pure Ruby video 
  Andy Barnov
• Outside of Models, Only Use Named Scopes opinion 
  Andy Croll
• Test Kitchen: An Integration Tool for Testing Infrastructure Code tools 
  Test Kitchen
• Build, Deploy & Scale Ruby Apps Faster - $100 Credit On Us tools 
  DigitalOcean  Sponsored
• FasterPath: Faster Pathname Handling for Ruby with Rust code
  Not a new project but has had several updates recently. 
  Daniel P. Clark
• Doorkeeper: An OAuth 2 Provider for Rails and Grape Apps code 
  Applicake
• pwned: A Ruby Wrapper for the Pwned Passwords API code
  Check if a password has been found in any of the huge data breaches. There’s also devise-pwned_password if you prefer a Devise-oriented approach. 
  Phil Nash