Issue 479 - Some more of what's new in Ruby 2.7 (27)

Strings::Inflection: Convert Between Singular and Plural Forms of English Nouns — It can also inflect many nouns to verbs.

ImageProcessing: High-Level Image Processing Wrapper for Libvips and ImageMagick — “The goal of this project is to have a single gem that contains all the helper methods needed to resize and process images.”

Statesman: A State Machine Library — Takes a different approach to most other state machine libraries by having you define state behavior in separate classes that are then instantiated from within your other classes.

Grape: An Opinionated Framework for Creating REST-like APIs — It’s been around for years but continues to get frequent updates (v1.2.5 came out just this week).

Ruby 2.7 Adds Shorthand Syntax for Argument Forwarding — In short, you can use the syntax ... in parameter or argument lists to basically ‘pass through’ (or forward) arguments from one method to another. “It acts similar to calling super without any arguments.”

What’s New in Ruby 2.7? — There’s a lot coming in 2.7 (due on Christmas Day), including controversial features like pattern matching, numbered parameters, and keyword argument changes. Also, this will be the last point release before 3.0 a year from now.

▶  JRuby: From Zero to Scale — Two of the creators of the JRuby project (the JVM-based Ruby implementation that’s now 18 years old) talk about its history, how it compares to CRuby/MRI, how to scale it, and more.

Main Takeaways From Matz's RubyConf 2019 Keynote — We linked to the keynote video last week, but appreciate not everyone enjoys watching videos.. here’s some written impressions instead.

Ruby Conferences ‘n’ Camps in 2020 - What’s Upcoming? — A list of 14 events (so far) coming up in 2020 for Rubyists.

Software Engineer (San Francisco) — Help us fix technical hiring. We're growing our team and are looking for full-stack, frontend, ML and dev-ops engineers.

Using Rubyfmt with Atom — Rubyfmt is inspired by Go’s gofmt formatting tool and enforces styling choices, such as indentation, etc.

Ruby Literals You May Not Know — Be rational and read this (not really) complex post to improve your character by a endless percent.

From ActiveRecord Callbacks to Publish/Subscribe Pattern and Event-driven Design — Move away from callbacks with the Wisper gem as the first step in your journey to better distributed application design.

How to Build Realtime Presence Function in Ruby — Tutorial demonstrating the Ruby realtime library in action, shows how to build presence function with EventMachine.

▶  From jQuery to ES6 — Yes, this screencast covers JavaScript but it’s aimed at Rubyists or very casual JavaScript developers who might be intrigued how things have changed since the jQuery era.

Overpacking.. A Common Webpacker Mistake — If you’re using Webpacker and your asset compilation is taking a long time, maybe you’re an overpacker?

A Brief Interview with Eileen Uchitelle — We included this in the newsletter several weeks ago, but if you missed it, here’s a few questions with Eileen Uchitelle, a Rails core member.

RubyMine 2019.3 Released — RubyMine is a commercial product but if you want a full-scale, traditional IDE, it’s a reasonable option and only continues to get more features.

Senior Rails Engineer (Remote) — Ruby on Rails (5.2), Stimulus, Postgres & Heroku — We strive to keep our frameworks/libraries up to date. Perks: Remote team, competitive pay, meaningful company equity.

Powerful CI/CD Pipelines. Pay Only For What You Use — Built for developer productivity, Semaphore 2.0 allows you to model any CI/CD workflow with fully customizable, powerful pipelines. With the new pricing model you pay only for what you use. Sign up free with GitHub and give it a run-through.

excon: A Fast, Simple HTTP 1.1 Client for Ruby — Has just had its first update in a year.

Find A Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in dev roles and is completely free for job seekers.

eBook: Best Practices for Optimizing Postgres Query Performance — Learn how to get a 3x performance improvement on your Postgres database and 500x reduced data loaded from disk in this free pganalyze eBook.