This week's Ruby news, issue 292

Jobs

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In brief

• RubyConf Brasil 2016 Call for Proposals Open news 
  RubyConf Brasil
• Practice Makes Regexp: A Live Q+A on Regular Expressions news
  Got regex questions? It’s next Monday at 3pm Eastern. 
  Reuven M Lerner
• Twilio presents SIGNAL: The Developer Conference for Communications news
  Over 2,000 developers join us at SIGNAL for Real-Time Comms, IoT, and a conference party unlike any other - $Bash. 
  Twilio   Sponsored
• Deploying a Webpack + Rails App to Heroku, Easily tutorial 
  Codemancers
• Whitelisting with The Lesser-Known #presence_in Method tutorial
  A little used ActiveSupport method that provides a convenient way to do whitelisting in just one line. 
  Damir Svrtan
• Ruby Interview Questions: Problem Walkthroughs tutorial
  Brief walkthroughs of three sample code-related problems you might face when interviewing. 
  Dhaivat Pandya
• Regular Expressions: Replace the Last Occurrence of a Pattern tutorial 
  Joel Wietelmann
• How to Get Your Conference Proposal Accepted tutorial
  From a veteran of the Ruby events world. 
  Richard Schneeman
• Ecto for Rails Developers — The Basics tutorial
  Ecto is the de facto way to talk to databases from Elixir. 
  Rendered Text
• Learn to Use The Twitter API with Ruby tutorial
  A simple intro to interacting with the Twitter API from Ruby. 
  Jesus Castello
• How to Deal with Timezones the Active Support Way tutorial
  Writing software that needs to be aware of different time-zones? Jake shares some code for accommodating this. 
  Jake Yesbeck
• A Tale of Security Gone Wrong story 
  Gavin Miller
• Some Facts About The Ruby Hero Awards opinion
  Gregory isn’t sure about the selections process. 
  Gregory Brown
• Never Schedule Future Jobs opinion
  Look back at what to do now, rather than push jobs into the future, says Lance. 
  Lance Olsen
• 9 Critical Decisions for Running Docker with Ruby in Production opinion 
  James Higginbotham
• Making Exception Alerts Fit in Your Ops Workflow tools
  Based on customer feedback, Honeybadger has launched a suite of features that give you incredible control over how error alerts fit into your ops workflow. 
  Honeybadger.io   Sponsored
• zxcvbn-ruby: Ruby Port of a Password Strength Estimator Library code 
  Envato
• activerecord-collection_cache_key: Backporting Rails 5's Cache Keys code
  A library that backports a new Rails 5 feature to Rails 4: cache keys for ActiveRecord collections. 
  Dan Drinkard
• Spree 3.1.0.rc1 Released code
  Spree is a complete open source e-commerce solution on Rails. 
  Spree Commerce
• Notifyor: Get Desktop Notifications If Something Happens in Your Rails App code 
  Erwin Schens