Using SSL with Passenger in Development, A Flaky Test Story, and Ruby Prize 2016

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In brief

• WindyCityRails 2016: A Gathering in Chicago (September 15-16) news 
  
• Web Applications on Phusion Passenger Are Not Vulnerable to HTTPoxy news 
  Phusion
• Introducing 'assert_changes' and 'assert_no_changes' to Rails news 
  Genadi Samokovarov
• Download free eBook: Why Containers and Docker are the Future 
  In this eBook we will have a look at the Traditional Stack, the Virtual Machine Stack and the Container Stack. 
  Codeship   Sponsored
• Phases of Refactoring Complex Rails Apps tutorial 
  Marcin Grzywaczewski
• Understanding a Fundamental Ruby Concurrency Abstraction tutorial
  What is a thread pool, why it is useful and how can we implement our own? 
  Ross Kaffenberger
• Behind The Scenes: How Numbers Work in Ruby tutorial 
  Jesus Castello
• Uploading Files in Rails Using Paperclip and Active Admin tutorial 
  Matt Rozema
• Rbenv: How It Works tutorial
  Subtitled: “Dealing with rbenv errors without Google or Stack Overflow” 
  Sudhagar
• How to Manage Campaign Monitor Lists with Ruby tutorial
  Campaign Monitor is a hosted email sending service. 
  Ready Steady Code
• How We Integrate React with Rails to Build A Powerful UX story 
  Yoni Weisbrod
• A Writeup of the Brighton Ruby 2016 Experience story
  The caliber of talks and speakers was very high. 
  Toby Osbourn
• Consider Turbolinks 5 for Your Next Rails Project opinion 
  Corey Martin
• Why You Shouldn't Roll Your Own Authentication in Rails opinion 
  Sid Krishnan
• LetsEncrypt Heroku: Bring SSL to Any Heroku App in Minutes tools
  Bills itself as alpha software so YMMV. 
  Substrakt
• Stop Ops from Eating up Your Precious Dev Time for Good 
  OpsCare® provides fixed price, monthly Operations as a Service for your Rails app, letting you get on with building features instead of worrying about your servers. 
  Reinteractive   Sponsored
• MiniStatsD: A Simple StatsD Client in Ruby code 
  Igor Marques da Silva
• PureCDB: A Pure Ruby CDB Reader/Writer with 64 Bit Extensions code
  cdb is a database format. 
  Hokstad Consulting Ltd
• Hanami v0.8.0 Released code 
  Luca Guidi
• Rack Web Console: A Web Console for Rack Apps code
  Why let Rails have all the fun? Bring a Web console to any Rack app. 
  Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
• FFI::Mmap: Ruby FFI-based Mmap Interface code
  Disclaimer: It’s still early days. 
  Hokstad Consulting Ltd
• spec_object: A DSL for Describing the Behavior of Objects codetutorial 
  Daniel Waterworth
• PushType: A Modern Open Source CMS for Rails code
  A good looking, modern CMS, Check the screenshots on the GitHub repo. 
  Push Code
• Action Cable Extracted From Rails 5 and Packaged as a Node.js Module code 
  Tom Chinery