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Ruby 2.5.3 Released
#421 — October 18, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby 2.5.3, 2.4.5, and 2.3.8 Released— The reason? Two vulnerabilities have been disclosed and fixed: a tainted flag bug with Array#pack and...
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Yabeda: A Modular Framework for Instrumenting Ruby Apps
#422 — October 25, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyYabeda: A Modular Framework for Instrumenting Ruby Apps— “Adopt metrics-driven development with an extendable framework that supports Rails, Sidekiq,...
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New Bundler and Rubocop releases, plus using R and ggplot from Ruby
#423 — November 1, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyBuilding a Ruby C Extension From Scratch— While there are easier, gem-assisted ways to wrap C code from Ruby, knowing how to do this from the ground up...
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Ruby 2.6.0 Preview 3 Released
#424 — November 8, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby 2.6.0 Preview 3 Released— The next step along the road to the (hopefully) eventual Xmas release of 2.6. The big news here is, as we’ve covered...
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What’s New in Ruby 2.6?
#425 — November 15, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyWhat’s New in Ruby 2.6?— Ruby 2.6 preview 3 is out, the final release is just over a month away, but here’s a look at what’s in it for you as a Ruby...
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Writing GraphQL Queries in Native Ruby
#426 — November 22, 2018Read on the WebRuby Weekly🦃 Hey - we're keeping things short this week in respect of Thanksgiving. If you celebrate, we hope you have a good one. Back to full service next...
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What the inclusion of Bundler in Ruby means
#427 — November 29, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyModulation: Explicit Dependency Management for Ruby— An interesting experiment that feels a bit like JavaScript’s import syntax. Intended for managing...
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Ruby now a first-class language on AWS Lambda
#428 — December 6, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyAWS Lambda Gets Official Support for Ruby— After much community demand, AWS’s popular Lambda serverless platform now supports Ruby as a first class...
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Ruby 2.6.0 Release Candidate 1 Released
#429 — December 13, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby 2.6.0 Release Candidate 1 Released— Things are looking good for Ruby 2.6’s eventual final release on Christmas Day. We’ve linked a lot of great...
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A look at back at Ruby in 2018
#430 — December 19, 2018Read on the WebRuby WeeklyThis week we're taking a break from the usual roundup to look back over the top Ruby news and links of 2018 (in which Ruby turned 25 years old!)We'll...
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Ruby 2.6 and Bundler 2.0 Released
#431 — January 3, 2019Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby 2.6 Released— As is traditional, the latest major release of Ruby came out on Christmas Day. The much awaited 2.6 includes an initial implementation...
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Ruby 2.6.0p0 has a sneaky HTTP related bug
#432 — January 10, 2019Read on the WebRuby WeeklyExploring a Critical Net::Protocol Issue in Ruby 2.6.0p0— It seems Ruby 2.6.0p0 introduced a serious bug if you do any HTTP communication from Ruby...
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Three ActiveRecord mistakes that slow down Rails apps
#433 — January 17, 2019Read on the WebRuby Weekly3 ActiveRecord Mistakes That Slow Down Rails Apps— The culprits are count, where, and present?, and here’s advice that you will, no doubt, use from...
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The first beta of Rails 6.0 is here
#434 — January 24, 2019Read on the WebRuby WeeklyThe Ruby Toolbox: A Handy Catalog of Ruby Gems— Around for years, then abandoned, and now being actively worked on again, the Ruby Toolbox is a great...
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Ruby 2.6.1 released
#435 — January 31, 2019Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby 2.6.1 Released— This release is primarily to resolve the critical Net::Protocol issue we mentioned a few weeks ago. If you’re using 2.6 in...
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An experimental wrapper around Ruby's TracePoint
#436 — February 7, 2019Read on the WebRuby WeeklyIntroducing dry-schema: A Data Coercion and Validation Library— A new library from Dry.rb focused on data validation. It was built to improve some of...
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A thorough tutorial on building a Rails and React app
#437 — February 14, 2019Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRuby 2.7 to Add Enumerable#tally— Enumerable#tally is a new function letting you count lists using a function - a long-wanted Ruby feature. Related...
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Some 'Unnoticed' Features of Rails 6
#438 — February 21, 2019Read on the WebRuby WeeklySome 'Unnoticed' Features of Rails 6— There’s a sizable number of changes coming to Rails 6 (which is already in beta) that aren’t getting the...
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Rails 6.0 Beta 2 released
#439 — February 28, 2019Read on the WebRuby WeeklyRails 6.0.0 Beta 2 Released— The gradual march towards a release candidate of Rails 6 continues. The second beta includes 532 commits beyond the first...
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What's new in Rails 6
#440 — March 7, 2019Read on the WebRuby Weekly▶ What's New in Rails 6— Last week’s release of Rails 6 beta 2 has us all interested in Rails 6 again, and here we get to see the new bits in a tight,...
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