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Issue 231 — January 29, 2015
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Aaron Patterson
Aaron ‘tenderlove’ Patterson (he of the Ruby and Rails core teams) shares numerous interesting RSpec vs Minitest insights after using both in earnest. Note, however: ‘Do I care which one you use? No.’
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RubyFlow
I launched RubyFlow in 2008 for Rubyists to share tutorials, libraries, and other Ruby stuff with more context than typical social news sites. 11,500 posts later(!) I finally rebuilt it. I use RubyFlow as a source of Ruby Weekly links so consider submitting your work.
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Phusion
Passenger-docker is a Docker image meant to serve as a good base for Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor app images.
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RailsConf 2015
The CFP ends at noon ET on Feb 6. The event is in Atlanta across Apr 21-23. Tickets are still available.
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ScriptRock
An extensive first hand report of why a team ported a 30K LOC app from JRuby to Go and what the pros and cons were. (I guess this is a good a place as any to note we have a Go newsletter as well now!)
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Chris Mytton
A look at using Mechanize to scrape reviews from Pitchfork, the music review site.
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Steve Richert
Learn a couple of other things the ‘flash’ object in Rails could be used for, other than displaying messages to users.
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Jobs
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Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer at Localytics (Boston, MA)At Localytics, we enable people to create great relationships with their app users. We’re looking for senior-level Ruby on Rails engineers who are driven, engaged, fun and collaborative. If you take your work seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously, you might be a good fit here. Localytics
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Senior Backend Engineer at Drivy (Paris, France)We're building the leading peer-to-peer car rental service (think "Airbnb for cars") in Europe and we're looking for an experienced Ruby developer to help us tackle some exciting challenges. Drivy
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Senior/Junior Ruby Developer at AppLift (Berlin, Germany)If you have passion for writing and managing scalable systems, handling huge amounts of data and using different technologies (Go, Angular, etc.), we would love to have a talk! Email us at veronica@applift.com. AppLift
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