A selection of current and useful materials on Ruby # 1: articles, reports, podcasts, gems

Hello! I work at AT Consulting and represent the development team for the Beeline.kz portal, which we write in Ruby on Rails. Since the information in our field is rapidly becoming outdated, we have to constantly follow the news and learn new technologies. As I accumulate news and useful material related to Ruby, I will publish a Ruby Digest.
Most of the materials that I collected in the digest are written in English, but I hope that this is not a problem, because the first step to Ruby is learning the language.

Read

• Generational GC in Python and Ruby - by Ruby Under a Microscope compares Ruby and Python garbage collection
• Cutting Corners or Why Rails May Kill Ruby - a sensational article criticizing the Rails way and the reasons for diminishing the community
• Avdi Grimm - Ruby is defined by terrible tools - a depressive article by Avdi Grimm about the state of the toolkit in the Ruby community
• Implementing Lazy Enumerables in Ruby - deep material on Enumerable before the release of the book "The Ruby Closures Book"
• Bringing the best of bash scripting to ruby
• Rails Test Types and the Testing Pyramid - an adaptation of the Martin Fowler test pyramid to Rails terminology
• Advanced Ruby Hash Techniques
• Replace CoffeeScript with ES6 - a comparison of ES6 and Coffee from thoughtbot
• React + Flux Backed by Rails API - description of the experience of implementing React + Flux with API on rails. The second part of the article is here , and the third is here.
• How Bundler Works: A History of Ruby Dependency Management - an interesting post about the Bundler story, you can also watch Aaron Patterson's speeches (one of the main contributors) on this topic

Watch and listen

• GORUCO 2015: Nate Berkopec: Rails 5, Turbolinks 3, and The Future of View-Over-the-Wire (14:21)
• GORUCO 2015: Eileen Uchitelle: How to Performance (25:43) - Eileen Uchitelle from Basecamp’s presentation on how she tracked and optimized Rails performance using the example of controller tests and integration tests
• Rails 5's ActionCable and Websockets Introduction (18:48) - a full-fledged introduction to Rails web socketstays in a GoRails screencast
• RailsConf 2015 - Internet of Things: Connecting Rails with the Real World (31:24) - an interesting report from RailsConf about how to make a coffee maker today, without leaving the chair and the usual working environment. Future for IoT
• Ruby Tapas - Immutable Iterators with Tom Stuart - Avdi Grimm's free screencast edition of working with immutable collections using Enumerator
• RWpod 25th edition 03 season - Rails vs. Lotus, Rack: Writing middleware, Gkv, ES6 Feature Performance, Spectacle, etc.
• RWpod 26 release 03 season - Action Cable, JRuby - Just Ruby, The Evolution of Go, jQuery 3.0 Alpha, Incremental DOM, Pure UI, etc.
• Ruby5 Episode # 569 - high performance caching with Readthis, colorized SQL logging backport for ActiveRecord, RMagick, Gemfiles, and Ruby operators.
• The Bike Shed 24: A Lab Coat (Richard Schneeman) - a discussion of memory usage in Ruby, horizontal scaling and open source

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Learning materials

• Speed ​​Up Your Rails App by 66% - The Complete Guide to Rails Caching - Post Nate Berkopec with lots of practical advice on how to make your Rails application responsible for 50-100ms
• Unix sockets in ruby
• Getting started with Rails 5's ActionCable and websockets - a great introduction to ActionCable for beginners.
• Running a Rails Development Environment in Docker
• The Rubyist's Guide to Environment Variables - Honeybadger developers' story about environment variables, and in the continuation of this article they pay attention to security.
• 4 Easy Ways to Speed ​​Up Your Rails App
• Writing Smart Migrations: References, Reversible, and Indexes
• What is a Gemfile - detailed article about Gemfile

Releases, updates, innovations

• Action Cable alpha - DHH has published an alpha version and examples of using the new API for WebSockets in Rails 5
• Evil Martians - Render views outside of actions - the story of Evil Martians about the development of a new API to call the render method outside the controller. Innovation will be available in Rails 5 by default, but for now you can use it as a heme.
• Remove `Rack :: Lock` from Rails

Must-read

• The Ruby Style Guide and Translation - is it possible to write well in Ruby without reading it?
• Robert the Martin by Robert Martin - Ruby Midwest 2011 (1:06:38) - Robert Martin's epic speech criticizing the Rails Way, a short history of OOP and interesting own proposals on the architecture of applications
• RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz (38:46) - another brilliant speech by Sandi Metz about the benefits of a head in OO development
• Advanced Caching in Rails - a series of articles by Adam Hawkins, which will teach you everything related to caching in Rails applications
• Ruby in Production: Lessons Learned - everything you need to know about Rails Deploy applications + template on github
• 7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models - without this, your applications will soon begin to cause you pain and suffering. Also available video

Meetings and Conferences

• July 23 RailsClub Ruby meetup №2 in the office of Rambler & Co
• September 26th RailsClub Moscow 2015