New Constant Naming Rules Coming to Ruby 2.6+

#398 — May 10, 2018

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New 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 names (including classes and modules). In Ruby 2.6, you get 1000+ options thanks to this patch.(Note: It’s not supported in Ruby 2.6 preview 1, but should appear in the next preview.)

Shannon Skipper

Caching in Rails 5.2— A preview chapter from the author’s new book that runs through the various ways to cache in Rails, including a reach back to page caching.

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First Steps with Sinatra as a Rails Developer— A two part guide (part 2 here) on how to work with the Sinatra library and add extra features.

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To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Rails Ruby Bench and Sleepy GC— A more accessible writeup of an issue we linked last week about dealing with improving garbage collection during idle cycles instead of waiting for one big GC.

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▶  How to Migrate from Paperclip to Rails ActiveStorage— The Paperclip gem has been deprecated and ActiveStorage is the newest approach. Here’s how to get from the old to the new. Prefer a writeup? Try this.

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Passenger 5.3.0 Released— The popular app server now uses Nginx 1.14, has Ubuntu 18.04 packages, and an improved error page.

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git-vanity-sha: Find 'Vanity' Hex Prefixes for Your Git Commit SHAs— This is just a bit of fun but a neat use for a quick Ruby script.

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Rails Frontend Testing with JavaScript Insights— This post mentions the new system tests in Rails 5 and covers some approaches to avoiding time-killing gotchas with Turbolinks and Spring.

Daniel P. Clark

Serverless Ruby with Docker and Apache OpenWhisk— The example uses a Dockerized Sinatra application deployed to IBM Cloud’s OpenWhisk-backed Cloud Functions to execute Docker actions.

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How to Increase Reliability of Background Job Processing with Sidekiq Pro's 'super_fetch'

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Rails 5.2 Sets Ruby Version in Gemfile & Adds .ruby-version File by Default

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