#344: The State of Ruby on Google Cloud Platform

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In brief

• Rails 5.1 Deprecations news
  The list is extensive so you’ll want to get testing first. 
  Dave Kimura
• Ruby 2.4 Added Additional Parameters for Logger#new news
  You can now specify logger level and more right in the constructor. 
  Chirag Shah
• Founders/CTOs: We upgrade Rails so that your team doesn't have to 
  Let our expert UpgradeRails team keep your apps up to date so that you can focus on features, not maintenance. 
  UpgradeRails  Sponsored
• Configuring Rails Projects With .railsrc and Templates tutorial
  Did you know Rails will use a .railsrc file? 
  Samuel Mullen
• Following the Path: How Ruby Finds Files You Require tutorial 
  Joël Quenneville
• Using Webpack 2 with Middleman 4 tutorial
  Middleman is a popular static site generator. 
  Chase Gillam
• An Action Cable ‘Hello World’ with Rails 5.1 tutorial
  A small, easy to replicate Hello World example. 
  Stefan Wintermeyer
• Ruby Under The Hood: Fiddling With Objects Using Fiddle::Pointer tutorial
  Fun to play, but not a great idea in production ;-) 
  Jesus Castello
• Drag and Drop in Your Rails App with Interact.js video 
  Drifting Ruby
• Using Webpack in Rails with the Webpacker Gem video 
  GoRails Screencasts
• Ruby, HTTP/2 and You video 
  Hiro Asari
• Catch Errors Before Your Users Do 💻 tools
  Rollbar detects and alerts you via Slack, HipChat when code breaks. Get stack trace and user data to help you defeat annoying Ruby errors. 
  Rollbar  Sponsored
• DockRails: CLI to Generate and Run a Rails Environment with Docker tools 
  Guillaume Montard
• Yardcheck: Validate YARD Docs by Running Your Test Suite tools 
  John Backus
• Zhong: A Reliable, Distributed Cron, Backed by Redis code 
  Nick Elser
• Google's Cloud Client for Ruby Goes 1.0 code
  An idiomatic way to use Cloud Datastore and Cloud Storage. 
  Google
• Textbringer: An Emacs-Like Text Editor Written in Ruby code 
  Shugo Maeda
• GoRuby: An Attempt At Implementing Ruby in Go code
  Very early days but fun to see the attempt. 
  GoRuby
• Fiddley: An In-Progress Ruby-FFI Compatible API Layer for Fiddle code 
  Usaku Nakamura
• Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo   
  linode  Sponsored