This week's Ruby news, issue 335

Jobs

• Head of Engineering at Newspaper Club (Glasgow, UK)We're looking for a friendly, experienced tech team leader who can help us transform newspaper printing. Newspaper Club
• Senior Ruby Engineer at FreeAgent. Edinburgh or Remote UKWant to help over 55,000 small businesses carry out their finances? We have opportunities for Ruby engineers and tech leads. FreeAgent
• Software Engineer - Mid to Senior Level (London, UK)Have 2+years experience with Ruby on Rails and take pride in readable, well-designed & well-tested software? Deliveroo are hiring! Deliveroo

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In brief

• Sidekiq Celebrates 5 Years news 
  Mike Perham
• Getting to Know and Love AWS Elastic Beanstalk Configuration Files tutorial
  A deep look at using .ebextensions files to configure the EB environment for a Rails app. 
  Maria Luisa Carrion D.
• GoF Design Patterns Demonstrated and Explained with Ruby tutorial 
  David García
• Solving the 'Pair With Sum' Problem tutorial
  A common interview question approached and benchmarked using three different tactics. 
  Rafik Bennacer
• 3 Tips for Scaling Your Database tutorial
  Use UUIDs, avoid counters, and warehouse old data. 
  Starr Horne
• Service Objects in Rails... And You tutorial 
  Rob Race
• The Yield Default Object Pattern tutorial
  A handy trick to override configuration options for a class. 
  Robert Pankowecki
• How to Monitor Delayed Jobs with Monit tutorial 
  Jason Brodie
• Extending git with Ruby tutorial
  Tap into git’s hooks and commands to automate pieces of your git work flow. 
  Filipe Correia
• [Webinar] How to be a Performance Driven Engineer video
  Access this recording on guidelines, insights & principles for a performance-driven engineering mindset. 
  VividCortex   Sponsored
• Logging In As Another User with Devise Masquerade video 
  GoRails
• Managing Servers with Ansible video
  A 14 minute look at how a Rubyist manages deployments with Ansible. 
  Drifting Ruby
• heroku-ssl: Easily Add SSL to Your Herou App with Let's Encrypt code 
  Kai Marshland
• opal-d3: Data Visualization in the Browser Using Ruby and D3 code
  Opal compiles Ruby to JavaScript so you can interact with things like D3. 
  Tomasz Wegrzanowski
• Are you also obsessed with clean code? 
  We believe clean code results in confident software. Let us be your extended team and inherit good code. 
  Reinteractive   Sponsored
• dry-view: A Functional View Rendering System for Ruby code 
  
• Minicron: A Monitor, Manager and Web UI for cron Jobs code 
  James White
• Faker: The Library for Generating Fake Data code
  Gets an update with Faker::Demographic which returns races, heights, demonyms, etc. 
  Benjamin Curtis