Thanksgiving Week's Ruby news, issue 325

As it's Thanksgiving in the US this week, we're running a shorter issue than usual. If you're celebrating, we hope you have a good one. If you're stuck for anything to do, be sure to check out some of the great videos from Rubyconf 2016 (below) :-)

In brief

• FOSDEM 2017 Ruby Devroom Call for Presentations Open news
  CFP ends early December and FOSDEM itself is on February 4-5 in Brussels. 
  Ruby Belgium
• RailsConf 2017 CFP is Open news
  The event itself is in Phoenix, Arizona on April 25-17, 2017. 
  RailsConf
• Pragmatic Programmers Doing 40% Thanksgiving Sale news
  Publishers of tons of great Ruby books (and more). 
  The Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Simplify Complex Rails Apps with 'Operations' tutorial
  Understand the roles and goals of using operations to make your apps maintainable. 
  Bryan Rite
• Integrating Salesforce with Rails and Heroku Connect tutorial 
  Reinteractive   Sponsored
• How to Integrate Google Calendar with a Rails App tutorial 
  Ready Steady Code
• Handling Errors in an API the Rails Way tutorial 
  Łukasz Sarnacki
• Five Trending Open Source Projects That Use Ruby tutorial 
  Ardian Haxha
• Adding Token-Based API Authentication to a Rails App tutorial 
  Joe McCartie
• A Looks at Crystal: Macros and Concurrency tutorial
  Part two of the series on the compiled Ruby-esque language. 
  Michael Kohl
• Why We Chose Turbolinks opinion 
  Changelog
• Care for your Apps, Peace of Mind for You 
  Support plans for ongoing improvements and code maintenance as well as 24/7 ops support specifically for Ruby on Rails apps. 
  Reinteractive   Sponsored
• Ruboto 1.5.0 Released: Develop Native Android Apps in Ruby code 
  Ruboto