This week's Ruby news, issue 326

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In brief

• Rails 5.0.1.rc1 Released news 
  Official Rails Blog
• 2016 Ruby Association Grants Awarded news
  Grants have been awarded to 4 projects, including Tensorflow.rb and Rubex, a new way to write C extensions. 
  Ruby Association
• Developing A Wizard or Multi-Step Forms in Rails Apps tutorial
  An interesting use of inheritance to keep steps clean and free of conditionals. 
  Nicolas Blanco
• Getting Rails on Track tutorial
  A new series on how to apply better design to your Rails apps. 
  Christoph Gockel
• Call Ruby from Elixir and Vice Versa with Export/Erlport tutorial 
  Michał Kalbarczyk
• How to Create JSON Responses From Postgres Instead of Ruby tutorial
  Why? It produces smaller JSON and is faster to generate complex JSON. 
  RedPanthers
• A Bunch of Ruby Tips tutorial
  A two-part series (so far) including Ruby bits about symbols, arrays, hashes, and ranges. Part 1 is here. 
  Anton Davydov
• Building an HTTP Server in 30 Lines of Ruby tutorial 
  Jeff Kreeftmeijer
• Write a Twitter Bot Using Ruby tutorial 
  Viacheslav
• Throwaway Code opinion
  Do you create code meant to be thrown away? Corgibytes’ Chief Code Whisperer Scott Ford explains why he does. 
  Corgibytes   Sponsored
• 57 Ruby Gems We Use at RubyGarage opinion 
  RubyGarage
• Why I Built an Isomorphic Ruby App with Opal opinion 
  Jon Murdoch
• Ember with Rails Series video
  A five-part introductory series to get you started with Ember. 
  Go Rails
• If you build Rails apps, you need Honeybadger tools
  Exception monitoring for Ruby developers. Pinpoint errors to the line of offending code - get your free trial. 
  Honeybadger   Sponsored
• Heroku DB Restore Gem: Cloning Heroku App DBs Locally tools
  The DB Restore logic from Heroku Ops has been extracted into its own gem. 
  Nathaniel Rowe
• XML Schema Snippet Tester in Ruby code
  A little Ruby script to validate XML against a specific XML Schema. 
  Alan W. Smith
• Waterfall: A Way to Chain Ruby Services and Blocks code
  .. and treat them like a flow. 
  Benjamin Roth