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The first preview release of Ruby 3.0 is here
#521 — October 1, 2020Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby 3.0.0 Preview 1 Released— Fingers crossed for a final Ruby 3.0 release this Christmas, but in the meantime we have the first preview release to play...
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The one with all the Rails stuff (and Ruby 2.7.2)
#522 — October 8, 2020Read on the Web👍 Thanks for all of the feedback you gave last week – we're listening to it all. An occasional complaint was that we don't have enough pure Ruby (read: not Rails)...
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Typing opinions, better Ruby docs, and the world beyond Rails
#523 — October 15, 2020Read on the Web💎 Many of you picked up on my lamentations over Ruby vs Rails content last week and I now have a pile of submissions to consider for future issues – thanks! You'll...
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RuboCop goes 1.0
#524 — October 22, 2020Read on the Web💬 If you enjoy the interviews we do from time to time, this issue concludes with a rather perky one with Nick Sutterer of Trailblazer fame!Ruby WeeklyRuboCop 1.0:...
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How software transactional memory (STM) could improve Ruby concurrency
#525 — October 29, 2020Read on the WebRuby WeeklyExamining a Proposal to Add Software Transactional Memory (STM) to Ruby— Chris Seaton was the founder of TruffleRuby (so he knows his stuff) and here he...
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Turning VS Code into a Ruby IDE
#526 — November 5, 2020Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRails 6.1 RC1 Now Available— The list of features and fixes coming to 6.1 is impressive, to say the least: horizontal DB sharding, per-database...
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A Ruby quine that cycles through 128 languages
#527 — November 12, 2020Read on the WebRuby WeeklyListen: 'Listens' to File Modifications and Notifies You About The Changes— OS-optimized on each of macOS, Linux, BSD and Windows, and can detect file...
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Benchmarking two high performance JSON parsers
#528 — November 19, 2020Read on the WebSuch a busy week that we've had to bump a few items to next week! Nonetheless, thanks for all of your submissions – the Ruby ecosystem shows no sign of slowing...
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How fast are Ruby 3.0's Ractors
#529 — November 26, 2020Read on the WebRuby WeeklyStatic Typing for Ruby and Adopting Sorbet at Scale— A walkthrough of the process Shopify followed to support developers and measure their progress...
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3 is the magic number
#530 — December 3, 2020Read on the WebRuby WeeklyThe 2020 Ruby Advent Calendar 2020— An article per day about a Ruby gem. So far, local_time, elastic-enterprise-search and Blazer have been covered.Best...
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Rails 6.1 and Ruby 3.0.0 preview 2
#531 — December 10, 2020Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRails 6.1 Released— The newest Rails train has just pulled into the station! If your app needs the flexibility of per-database connection switching or...
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A bumper roundup of 2020
#532 — December 17, 2020Read on the Web🙂 For every other newsletters I write, this is the final week of the year, but with Ruby 3.0 being released this week, Ruby is a special exception! Watch out for...
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The Ruby 3.0 special edition
#533 — December 29, 2020Read on the Web🙂 I hope you enjoyed your Christmas break! I'm still on mine, but because Ruby has such an interesting release schedule, I felt I had to come back for this...
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What Turbolinks Did Next
#534 — January 7, 2021Read on the Web👋 We're back! I'm looking forward to another strong year for Ruby and things are continuing to look up with both the release of Ruby 3.0 and ongoing Rails...
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Google Cloud Functions now supports Ruby
#535 — January 14, 2021Read on the WebRuby WeeklyButtons above are from React Social Login Buttons by Michal SzorádOmniAuth 2.0 Released— OmniAuth is an extremely popular Rack-based authentication...
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How fast is Ruby 3 on Rails?
#536 — January 21, 2021Read on the Web💡 One of the most popular recurring features we've added to our sister Postgres Weekly newsletter has been a 'tip of the week.' We've been looking to begin this in...
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Let's learn about RBS
#537 — January 28, 2021Read on the Web💡 The Tip of the Week is back! If you missed last week's, feel free to step back in time, but otherwise this week's is at the end of the issue, as before. You...
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Sonic Pi 3.3 released
#538 — February 4, 2021Read on the Web💡 We're taking a one week break from the new Tip of the Week section to take the opportunity to interview Sam Aaron of the Sonic Pi project which has just had a...
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Why wasn't Ruby 3 even faster?
#539 — February 11, 2021Read on the Web💡Some issues lean towards being more Ruby than Rails, some more Rails than Ruby, and this is probably one of the latter :-) I'm keen to keep the balance right...
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Bundler tightens its security
#540 — February 18, 2021Read on the Web💡 The Tip of the Week is back – see the end of the issue for that. It covers a Ruby 2.7 feature that makes a reasonably common task a single call and I'm very...
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