Ruby Weekly
Issue 365 — September 7, 2017
Practical AI
If you’re into AI, this is a fun exercise in writing a game player class in Ruby that can ‘learn’.


Universe Engineering
A follow up to a very popular article, this time looking at more advanced concurrency models such as Actors, CSP, STM and guilds.


John Cupitt
libvips is a fast, horizontally threaded image processing library that has over 300 operations. More info here.


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Sequel
Changes include frozen datasets by default, no longer allowing literal strings as SQL, and support for Ruby 1.8.7 is removed. GitHub repo.


Petar Ćurković
A Rails-oriented look at the options for importing large CSV files, how slow it is via an ORM, and how the COPY command can help.


Jobs

In brief