Writing a C Ruby extension in 2016 and getting Rails on Kubernetes

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In brief

• Ruby 2.4 Implements Array#min and Array#max news
  Faster than the existing Enumerable methods used. 
  Rohit Kumar
• Ruby 2.4 Adds Better Support for Extracting Captured Data From Regexp Matches news
  MatchData gets a named_captures method that returns a hash of results. 
  Rohit Kumar
• JRuby Working on Ruby 2.4 Support news 
  JRuby Team
• Announcing Honeybadger’s New UI Improvements news
  Including a snooze button for your alerts, and code snippets for every line of the backtrace. Learn more. 
  Honeybadger   Sponsored
• Statistical Literacy and You: An Intro for Programmers tutorial 
  Richard Schneeman
• Opal on Rails: Replacing CoffeeScript with Client-Side Ruby tutorial 
  BulldogJob
• Testing Rake Tasks with RSpec Feature Specs tutorial 
  Chris Woodford
• Fun with Operator Precedence and Conditionals tutorial
  x == x = WTF? 
  Dave Aronson
• Rewriting Ruby with synvert tutorial
  synvert is a DSL for converting Ruby code/syntax. 
  Tom Copeland
• Keep Your Global Namespace Clean with Sacrificial Test Classes tutorial 
  Ken Mayer
• Progressive Web Apps on Rails tutorial
  PWAs are all the rage. Here’s how to bring Rails to the PWA party. 
  Ross Kaffenberger
• Setting Up a New Rails Dev Environment on macOS tutorial
  A new 8 minute video covering useful tools like Homebrew, ZSH, Atom, and RVM. 
  Drifting Ruby
• Constraints Only Work If They Hurt opinion 
  David Heinemeier Hansson
• Lightning-fast SSD Hosts for Your Ruby Project tools
  Host Ruby 2.3.0 projects on Linode servers - the fastest cloud hosts available. Use promo code RUBY20 and get $20 credit. 
  linode   Sponsored
• Announcing Snyk for Ruby: Find Vulnerabilities in Your Gem Dependencies tools 
  Snyk
• Hanami v0.9.0: A Modern Web Framework for Ruby code
  New hanami-model engine based on ROM. 
  Luca Guidi
• Wayback Machine Downloader: Download An Entire Site from Wayback Machine code 
  hartator
• Flammarion: A Nifty Ruby GUI Toolkit code
  Aimed at displaying bits of information easily. Uses Chrome or Electron. 
  Zachary Capalbo
• Whitewidow: An Open Automated SQL Vulnerability Scanner code 
  Thomas Perkins