Ruby 2.6.2 Released

#441 — March 14, 2019

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Ruby Weekly

About Ruby Certification— Did you know that Ruby has an official certification provided by the Ruby Association (a Japanese organization chaired by Matz himself)? Here, a developer took the required test and shares his experience.

Nikita Misharin

Ruby 2.6.2 (and 2.5.4) Released— These releases (2.5.4 is here) are mostly due to the RubyGems security issues we mentioned last week.

Yui Naruse

Production-Quality Redis Hosting— Better tools, analytics and support for your high-performance Redis needs.

RedisGreen sponsor

Rubyfmt: An Autoformatter for Ruby Code— If you’ve used Go at all, you may be familiar with gofmt. This early stage project is an attempt at a similar sort of linter/formatter but for Ruby.

Sam Phippen

sqlite3-ruby 1.4.0: Ruby Bindings for SQLite3— The first release in two years. Apart from the usual bug fixes, the main new feature is support for defining custom aggregate functions - the tests help illustrate how they’re used.

Sparkle Motion

Rails 4.2.11.1, 5.0.7.2, 5.1.6.2, 5.2.2.1, and 6.0.0.beta3 Released— These patch level releases resolve some security issues, in particular two vulnerabilities in Action View.

Official Rails Blog

💻 Jobs

Senior Web Developer at Dr. Bill (Remote OK)— Dr. Bill helps Canadian doctors save time by streamlining their billing. Help lead our team into the next phase of growth.

Dr. Bill

Full Stack Engineer (Growth) - New York City— Help others by improving access to tech education globally. Help yourself with a competitive salary, daily free lunch, and yearly international retreats.

DataCamp

Find A Job Through Vettery— Vettery specializes in dev roles and is completely free for job seekers.

Vettery

📘 Articles & Tutorials

Don't Use Instance Variables in Partials— This is a PSA about partials and their evolution in a growing app.

Andy Croll

▶  How to Use Rails 6's ActionText— A quick introduction to using ActionText in Rails 6 (still in beta) apps for editing and displaying rich text plus uploading files.

Go Rails

Rails 6 Adds ActiveRecord::Relation#touch_all— It’s like touch (which updates records’ updated_at or other timestamps) but for multiple records.

Amit Choudhary

▶  Discussing TDD Workflows with Kent Beck— A 55 minute chat with the author of Test-Driven Development: By Example that digs into how to get started with testing if you’re still unsure.

The Ruby Testing Podcast podcast

▶  Discussing Why Rails Needs 'Active Deployment' with Stefan Wintermeyer— A 50 minute chat with the author of numerous Rails books.

Ruby Rogues Podcast podcast

How (Not) to Integrate Elasticsearch Testing with RSpec— “I encountered several problems along the way. I hope this post will prevent readers from making my mistakes.”

Timur Yanberdin

🔧 Code & Tools

Sublime Text 3.2 Released— Not Ruby specific, but we know a lot of Rubyists use this popular editor and releases tend to be far apart.

Sublime Blog

Simplify Event Tracking with a Single API— Collect data once with Segment and send it to 200+ tools. Get a free developer account.

Segment sponsor

Shrine: A File Attachment Toolkit for Ruby Applications— Integrates with several ORMs, can do image processing (for thumbnails, say), resumable uploads, and can work with both Rails and standard Rack apps.

Shrine

Phony: International Phone Number Normalizing and Formatting— For full, international E.164 standard numbers only.

Florian R. Hanke

active-record-query-trace: Rails Plugin That Logs a Backtrace of ActiveRecord Queries

Bruno Facca

Automated Visual Testing for Rails Apps. Start for Free

Percy sponsor

Groupdate: A Simple Way to Group Temporal Data in Active Record

Andrew Kane

Sidekiq Statistic: See Statistics About Your Sidekiq Workers

Anton Davydov