Ruby Facets
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 7 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsShort and sweet news about the Ruby and Rails community.
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Eight.new
July 07, 2017 16:23 - 5 minutes - 5.56 MBrescue from blocks in Ruby 2.5 Did you know that you don't need to use the begin/rescue/end pattern within a Ruby method definition body? If you do, you might have tried like me to apply an inline rescue statement with no begin or end inside of a normal Ruby block, say a block passed to Array#each for example. But... it doesn't work. Although it works fine inside method bodies, this is invalid syntax in Ruby 2.4 and prior, which is kind of infuriating because putting a rescue statement at ...
Seven.new
March 23, 2017 00:20 - 6 minutes - 5.6 MBWhat makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017? Back in January, David Heinemeier Hansson answered the question What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017? on the Q&A website Quora. After a few years when JavaScript frameworks have been monopolizing the limelight, it seems like there's enough new framework fatigue for Rails to become an exciting proposition once again. And it's interesting to see that DHH answers this question by saying that the same thing that made Rails exc...
Six.new
January 24, 2017 13:30 - 8 minutes - 5.96 MBRuby 2.4.0 Since Ruby Facets took a Winter break, we missed the joyful release of Ruby 2.4 on December 25th. Aside from the release blog post which listed the marquee features and improvements of this release, I highly recommend Jonan Scheffler's post on the Heroku blog which goes a LOT more in-depth about some of the changes. One of the most exciting for me is the introduction of the binding.irb command. It's a copycat of the binding.pry command from the Pry gem which allows you to open ...
Five.new
November 23, 2016 17:00 - 7 minutes - 4.96 MBGuilds at RubyConf 2016 Koichi Sasada recently presented a brand new talk at RubyConf a few more details about Guilds, his proposal for concurrent AND parallel programming in Ruby 3. He repeated the motivations behind Guilds, which are that Threaded programming is very difficult in Ruby, that there should be an easier way to make correct concurrent programs, and even more interestingly that it should possible to run these concurrent programs in parallel which is currently impossible with Ru...
Four.new
October 24, 2016 10:00 - 6 minutes - 4.32 MBRubyGems.org cuts response time in half In the first episode of Ruby Facets, I talked about Ruby Together; a membership-based trade association that supports the ongoing development and maintenance of essential Ruby infrastructure. Recently, the long-term support of Ruby Together yielded a clear benefit for Rubyists around the world: the RubyGems.org response times around the world was cut in half thanks to the deployment of CDN mirrors. There are a lot more plans to improve RubyGems.org ...
Three.new
October 10, 2016 13:00 - 5 minutes - 4.07 MBIntro Welcome to Ruby Facets. I'm Olivier Lacan and every week on this show I'll talk to you about a few interesting things going on in the Ruby community. Bundler 1.13 Just a month ago you might have missed the release of Bundler 1.13. I know I did, and I feel bad so let's talk about. If you're a fan of the brew doctor command from Homebrew which allows you to detect any issues with your installed packages or even your environment, you'll be happy to know that Bundler now has its own do...
Two.new
October 01, 2016 06:50 - 6 minutes - 4.55 MBIntro Welcome to Ruby Facets. I'm Olivier Lacan and every week on this show I'll talk to you about a few interesting things going on in the Ruby community. Concurrency in Ruby 3 with Guilds Earlier this month Koichi Sasada presented his proposal for a new concurrency model in Ruby 3 called Guilds. His goals are to retain compatibility with Ruby 2, allow for parallelism, reconsider global locks that prevent parallel execution, try to allow fast object sharing, and provide special structur...
One.new
September 21, 2016 12:50 - 5 minutes - 4.74 MBIntro Welcome to Ruby Facets. I'm Olivier Lacan and every week on this show I'll talk to you about a few interesting things going on in the Ruby community. I might talk about new releases from Ruby, Rails, or popular RubyGems; discuss insightful or controversial opinion pieces; or even reflect on trends in the community. You should expect a healthy serving of news with a light sprinkle of opinion on top. And with that, let's begin. Ruby 2.4.0 Preview 2 On September 8th, the Ruby core t...