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Ruby 3.2.0 Preview 1 Released — Sure, 3.2 isn’t due till Christmas, but Christmas has come early in the shape of the first preview release. What’s new? A timeout feature for regular expressions, WebAssembly support (as long as your code isn’t relying on threads..), and third party sources will no longer be bundled (bye Yui Naruse |
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Why Ruby Has Symbols — We love articles like this where someone who clearly loves Ruby digs into a well-known and essential part of the language and exposes all the technical details of how it’s done. (Very long-time Rubyists may even remember a pre-symbol era of Ruby..) Dmitry Tsepelev |
Long Term Support for Ruby on Rails 2.3, 3.2, 4.2, and 5.2 — Rails LTS provides extended support for old versions of Ruby on Rails. Drop-in gem replacements are available for Rails 5.2, Rails 4.2, Rails 3.2 and Rails 2.3. You can even run your old Rails app with modern Ruby versions. Rails LTS |
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🇺🇦 Devs For Ukraine: An Online Dev Event to Support Ukraine — Well known names from both the front end and back end development worlds have come together in this noble effort. Any Rubyists? You bet: Sandi Metz and Aaron Patterson for starters. The event itself takes place online on April 25-26. Слава Україні! Remote |
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▶ Working with a Label Maker from Ruby — Learn how to turn your tweets into physical printouts with a label maker via the Cups/PPD API. Certainly not your typical Ruby tutorial 🙂 David Kimura |
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Moneta 1.5.0: A Unified Interface to Key/Value Stores — Supports a variety of systems (about 20 in all – including Redis, Memcached, a simple in memory store, PStore, and even Active Record) and aims to offer consistent behavior across them with full configuration of the serialization process and atomic ops. Mendler, Katz, and Pharo |
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Martian Mono: An Open-Source Monospace Type Family — Consisting of a variable font and 28 styles focused on basic Latin, figures, punctuation, and essential symbols for now. Not Ruby specific but Evil Martians have put out a lot of great Ruby blog posts over the years, so it’s neat to see a font from them. Evil Martians |
