This week's Ruby news, issue 314

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In brief

• Rubyists Most Consistent In Using Spaces vs Tabs news
  A minor achievement, but some interesting stats nonetheless. 
  Felipe Hoffa
• Rails 5 Adds Ability to Create Module and Class Level Variables on Per Thread Basis news 
  Abhishek Jain
• $5000 fixed-cost upgrade of legacy 2.x/3.x Rails apps to Rails 5 
  Upgrading a legacy Rails app is a tedious task; let the specialists at RubyAppCare handle it for you. 
  Rubyappcare   Sponsored
• How to Scrape Web Sites with Ruby and Poltergeist tutorial
  A quick tutorial covering how to scrape websites with Ruby and the Poltergeist gem, a PhantomJS driver for Capybara. 
  Ready Steady Code
• Porting Object Orientation Concepts from Ruby to Elixir tutorial 
  Mike Pack
• Tricks with RSpec Components Outside RSpec tutorial 
  
• A Simple Introduction to Pry, a Handy Ruby Console tutorial 
  Vinoth
• The Many Ways to Create a Hash in Ruby tutorial
  Using to_h is another sneaky way. 
  Glenn Goodrich
• Building Rails APIs with JSONAPI and JSONAPI-Resources tutorial 
  Allen Fair
• Implementing Full-Text Search in a Rails App with Elasticsearch tutorial 
  Pedro Alonso
• Build A Fantasy Football Hotline with Ruby and Twilio tutorial 
  Greg Baugues
• Being 'Lazy' with ActiveRecord tutorial
  A potentially useful trick involving Enumerator::Lazy 
  John Andrews
• Augmenting a Rails App with Vue.js tutorial
  A demonstration of using Vue.js components and directives to augment a simple checkout form. 
  Kevin Sylvestre
• When Abstraction is a Mistake: ActionController::TestCase story 
  Kir Shatrov
• 5 Rails Gotchas opinion 
  Cẩm Huỳnh
• Ruby Gems Could Harm Your Memory opinion
  The side effects of adding external dependencies. 
  Marc Busqué
• Tools for a Modern Ruby Development Setup opinion 
  David Bush
• Gemnasium Enterprise: keep your projects secure and away from technical debt tools
  Run Gemnasium Enterprise behind your firewall and find security issues in your dependencies. 
  Gemnasium Enterprise   Sponsored
• ActionMailerMatchers: RSpec Matchers to Test Common ActionMailer Functionality code 
  Contently
• CoderVault: An Open Source, Self-Hosted, Snippet Manager code 
  CoderVault