This week's Ruby news, issue 342

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• Front-End Developer at Econify (New York, NY)Econify is a development shop working with large media clients. We’re seeking a senior Ruby developer to solve large scale problems. Econify
• Ruby on Rails Engineer at Snapdocs in San Francisco (YC W14)Pre-Series A company in mortgage space with real revenue and growth, hiring empathetic Rails engineers for document intelligence team. Snapdocs

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In brief

• Ruby 2.3.4 Released news 
  
• No RubyConf Portugal in 2017, Taking a 'Gap Year' news
  Just in case it was on your radar to attend. 
  Roberto Machado
• Track errors in your apps with Sentry tools
  Sentry's open-source error tracking tells you when your code breaks, without the need for bug reports. Use the code rubyweekly to sign up. 
  Sentry   Sponsored
• Chaining RSpec Matchers for Improved Test Readability tutorial
  Uses RSpec’s composable and method to improve the flow of specs. 
  Josh Clatyon
• Deploy a JRuby App on EC2 with Packer tutorial
  Packer automates the creation of machine images. 
  Daniel Gomes
• Modeling a Paginated API as a Lazy Stream tutorial 
  Joël Quenneville
• Making Array.include? Faster for Symbols tutorial
  Pawel found symbols were surprisingly slower than strings. This is how he fixed it. 
  Pawel Niewiadomski
• How to Build a Rails API Server with Auth0 JWT Auth + React tutorial 
  Ian Khor
• Refactoring: From Subclass to Registry tutorial
  Shows the process of taking small steps followed by refactorings to create a flexible solution. 
  Thiago Silva
• 15 Common Mistakes with Ruby Conventions in Rails tutorial 
  JetRuby
• Using Lob Webhooks to Send Delivery Notifications in Rails tutorial
  Lob is a service to send and track physical mail. 
  Shrav Mehta
• From Ruby to Crystal: A Quick Look opinion
  Porting an A* pathfinding algorithm from Ruby to Crystal. 
  Shawn Anderson
• Like the sound of fixed price Ops specifically for Rails apps? tools
  OpsCare offers 24/7 support for less than $1/hour. Our custom tools help ensure your app is online and doing what you expect. 
  Reinteractive   Sponsored
• Geared Pagination: Variable Speed Pagination for Active Record code
  Code extracted from Basecamp by DHH. 
  Basecamp
• Elixirize: Bringing Elixir's Piping Method to Ruby code 
  Daniel P. Clark
• Mobility: A Pluggable Ruby Translation Framework code
  Store and retrieve translations as attributes on a class based on the current locale. 
  Chris Salzberg
• LittleBoxes: A Simple Dependency Injection Library code
  Includes automatic configuration and lazy loading. 
  Manuel Morales
• DeepPluck: Pluck Attributes From Nested Associations code 
  Rumble Huang
• Firecord: An Object Data Mapper for Firebase code 
  Tomas Koutsky