Ruby News Rundown, July 2016

ruby_news_2016-07.md

News

Rails 5.0 released

• Annoucement
• RoR Guide updated for 5.0
• Tutorial updated for 5.0

Deets:

• ActionCable - websockets in rails!
• API mode - strip out all the unneeded parts of rails when you just want an API
• TurboLinks 5 - nice buzz about this, check out Turbolinks 5: I can't believe it's not native

Rspec 3.5 released

• Announcement
• Rails 5 support
• Controller testing deprecation and fix
• Some nice updates for metadata/test filtering.

Ruby 2.4 preview released

• Announcement

Deets:

• Unicode upcase/downcase/swapcase/capitalize support!
  • pass the :ascii argument to use old behavior.
• Time#to_time preserves timezone
• Bignum and Fixnum are replaced with Integer
  • possible breaking change
  • Preview 1 turns off Bignum & Fixnum so that you can test, but 2.4 will be backwards compatible
• Regexp.match? doesn't create global variable, it just matches and returns a boolean :)
• Optparse makes it easier to get a hash of options now
• Blogpost with nice rundown

Keep Ruby Weird: Friday Oct. 28

• Conference Page