DHH explains why Rails is worth learning in 2017

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In brief

• Shopify Is Now On Rails 5.0 news
  The numbers in that ‘rails stats’ table are absolutely epic :-) 
  Tobi Lütke
• Rails Camp USA West Coast 2017 news
  Tickets available for the camp taking place in Colorado later this year (September 1-4). 
  Rails Camp
• Passenger 5.1.2: Minor Fixes + Homebrew Tap for MacOS news 
  Phusion
• Ruby 2.4 Packages Available for Ubuntu news
  Put together by Brightbox, as always. 
  John Leach
• [eBook] Best Practices for Architecting Highly Monitorable Applications 
  Monitoring is highly important in running apps at scale. Apply best practices from this book to avoid pitfalls. 
  VividCortex   Sponsored
• Testing Current and Historical Rails Apps with Docker tutorial 
  Taylor Jones
• The Difference Between to_s and to_str tutorial
  You may have thought they were implicitly the same, but this post explicitly demonstrates otherwise. 
  Marc G Gauthier
• What HTTP/2 Means for Ruby Developers tutorial
  A year old, but worth reflecting on. 
  Nate Berkopec
• Roll Your Own FormBuilder in Rails tutorial 
  Samuel Mullen
• Rails-Like Exception Handling with ActiveSupport::Rescuable tutorial 
  Andrey Koleshko
• Bundler and Gemfile Best Practices tutorial 
  Florian Munz
• Start Your SEO Right with Sitemaps on Rails tutorial 
  Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski
• Life After Nil: Looking at Haskell's Type System from Ruby video 
  Sam Jones
• Drastically improve your Rails app with a FREE code review 
  Trouble with an existing app? Contact us for a free code review and get a report of our recommendations. 
  Reinteractive   Sponsored
• Swot: Identify Emails/Domains That Belong to Academic Institutions code
  Found via Olivier Lacan’s Ruby Facets podcast. 
  Lee Reilly
• Drawers 1.0: Group A Rails App's Classes Into Directories code
  Reorganize your app’s file structure as you see fit. 
  L. Preston Sego III
• How Can Phusion's Hongli Help Solve Your Deployment Challenges? 
  Hongli Lai, of the Passenger core team, seeks your questions. 
  Hongli Lai
• RubyFlow: A Group Blog for the Ruby Community 
  Get to the end of Ruby Weekly and wish there was more? Hundreds of Rubyists keep RubyFlow loaded up with great links every day :-) It's also a great way to get your own articles and projects seen.