Improving Ruby Performance with Rust

In brief

• Rubyhack Conference (Salt Lake City, May 3-4, 2018) news
  CFP is currently open and they are very keen for talk proposals. 
  
• Ruby 2.5's Dir.children and Dir.each_child tutorial
  They get around the issue of Dir.entries& Dir.foreach including the . and .. directory entries. 
  Mohit Natoo
• Using ActiveStorage Today (Prior to the Rails 5.2 Release) tutorial 
  Jason Kim
• Better Rails Performance with JSON Patch tutorial
  If you have to post large JSON docs to a Rails app, JSON Patch can reduce the amount of data that goes over the wire. 
  FormAPI Blog
• How to Receive & Respond to Text Messages with Hanami & Twilio tutorial 
  Phil Nash
• Migrating 'has_and_belongs_to_many' Associations to Rails 4+ tutorial 
  Robert Pankowecki
• Docker + Rails + System Tests with Headless Chrome tutorial
  The fulfilled promise of running Rails tests in a container quickly to feed your CI needs. 
  Doug Stull
• google_translate_diff: Using Google's Translate API More Efficiently tutorial
  One for heavy users of Google’s translation API only, but it could save you a lot of requests (and, therefore, money). 
  Viktor Sokolov
• Some Thoughts and Feelings on RubyConf 2017 story
  Focusing on personal reflections, rather than coding per se. 
  Avdi Grimm
• $20 Free On A New Linode Account tools
  Linux cloud hosting starting at 1GB of RAM for $5/mo. Get $20 credit on a new account. 
  Linode Cloud Hosting  Sponsored
• dbmgr: CLI Tool to Back Up, Restore, and Provision Dev Databases tools
  For MySQL and Postgres only so far. 
  
• ModelProbe: Schema Introspection for ActiveModel code 
  Nathan Hopkins