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Ruby 2.5 Released
Ruby Weekly Issue 381 — January 11, 2018 ruby-lang.orgRuby 2.5 Released: A Faster Step ForwardIt’s 5-10% faster than 2.4, rescue/else/ensure can now be used directly on blocks, hashes get new...
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#382: Upgrading a Rails App Incrementally
Ruby Weekly Issue 382 — January 18, 2018 Jesus CastelloTracking Object Allocation in RubyA few gems to use to track allocations along with their impact on common programming scenarios. When are objects...
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#383: Reducing Memory Usage in Ruby
Ruby Weekly Issue 383 — January 25, 2018 Aaron PattersonReducing Memory Usage in RubyAaron Patterson is working on a compacting garbage collector for Ruby and in this post he explains the challenges...
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#384: Rails 5.2 RC1, Passenger 5.2, and yield_self goodies
Ruby Weekly Issue 384 — February 1, 2018 David Heinemeier HanssonRails 5.2 Release Candidate 1 ReleasedThe beta period is over and we’re headed for final release with Rails 5.2 introducing Active...
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#385: How Fast is Ruby 2.5?
Ruby Weekly Issue 385 — February 8, 2018 Noah GibbsHow Fast is Ruby 2.5?A new benchmark on the heels of an important performance patch applied after Ruby 2.5.0preview1 shows a nice gain over previous...
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#386: Speeding Up Ruby with Shared Strings
Ruby Weekly Issue 386 — February 15, 2018 Aaron 'tenderlove' Patterson Speeding Up Ruby with Shared StringsAn in-depth explanation of a patch to Ruby that both reduces memory and speeds up performance...
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#387: Ruby turns 25
Ruby Weekly Issue 387 — February 22, 2018 Dave Thomas Happy 25th Birthday, RubyRubyists have been leaving messages for Ruby 25th anniversary, being celebrated at an event in Japan this weekend. There’s...
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Ruby 2.6 Preview Released
Ruby Weekly Issue 388 — March 1, 2018 Yui Naruse Ruby 2.6 Preview 1 ReleasedAlways exciting to see a preview release of a new version of Ruby, especially since 2.6 introduces an initial implementation...
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#389: A Huge Collection of Ruby One Liners
Ruby Weekly Issue 389 — March 8, 2018 Eliav Lavi Timeasure: A New Transparent In-Production ProfilerUsing Ruby’s various Module lifecycle hooks, Timeasure ends up with a nice, clean interface for...
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An overview of Ruby GUI development in 2018
Ruby Weekly Issue 390 — March 15, 2018 Olivier Lacan Why Won't Bundle Update?If you’ve ever seen a notice like “Bundler attempted to update nokogiri but its version stayed the same” and struggled to...
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Rails 5.2 RC2, and benchmarking Ruby 2.6 Preview 1
Ruby Weekly Issue 391 — March 22, 2018 David Heinemeier Hansson Rails 5.2.0 RC2: The (Hopefully) Last RC Before RailsConfRails 5.2 has an impressive feature list, including Active Storage, credentials,...
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Ruby 2.5.1, Ruby 3x3 internals, and a new GUI for Passenger
Ruby Weekly Issue 392 — March 29, 2018 Yui Naruse Ruby 2.5.1 (and others) ReleasedAs well as 2.4.4, 2.3.7 and 2.2.10 (likely the last ever 2.2 release, by the way). Why? Several security...
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10 points on the development of Ruby from a recent interview with Matz
Ruby Weekly Issue 393 — April 5, 2018 Benoit Larroque An In-Depth Look at a Ruby VulnerabilitySpecifically CVE-2018-8778, a buffer under-read vulnerability in String#unpack. This post goes deep on what...
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Rails 5.2, Hanami 1.2, and migrating from Heroku to Dokku
#394 — April 12, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRails 5.2 Released— The somewhat impressive list of features includes Active Storage, Redis Cache Store, HTTP/2 Early Hints, CSP, and Credentials. It...
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How Ruby 2.6's MJIT came to be
#395 — April 19, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyMJIT: A Method-Based Just-In-Time Compiler for Ruby— A brief history of how MJIT (currently under trial in Ruby 2.6 previews) came to be, followed by an...
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Can Pattern Matching Become Native to Ruby?
#396 — April 26, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyTop 10 Errors From 1000+ Rails Projects (and How to Avoid Them)— Analysis of the ten most common errors from over 1000 Rails projects monitored by...
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Ruby on WebAssembly, and an update on Ruby 3 concurrency
#397 — May 3, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby on WebAssembly— Until recently, we’ve had to compile other languages to JavaScript to make them work in the browser, but WebAssembly brings a...
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New Constant Naming Rules Coming to Ruby 2.6+
#398 — May 10, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyNew Constant Naming Rules Coming to Ruby 2.6+— Historically, you’ve needed to use an upper case ASCII capital letter as the first character of constant...
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Ruby’s New Exception Keyword Arguments
#399 — May 17, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby’s New Exception Keyword Arguments— From the forthcoming Ruby 2.6 preview 2 release, some Kernel methods will support exception: false and exception:...
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Actionable tips to improve web performance with Rails
#400 — May 24, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyActionable Tips to Improve Web Performance with Rails— Based on a talk from Wroclove.rb, the tools and tricks listed here will result in better Rails and...
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