• Ruby turned 25 last Saturday. Wow, that’s a long time. And a lots of inspiring stories of people who picked Ruby at some point. I don’t want to bore you with mine, so have one from Dave Thomas, for example. Or find a lot more under Twitter hashtag #ruby25th (seriously, many nice stories).
• As a part of celebration, preview of Ruby 2.6 has been released. There’s a lot of cool thing going on there, mostly concentrating on massive performance improvements with new experimental JIT and some more tweaks. Looking forward to stable version!
• Hmmm… Do you want a brand new functional-style processor for hashes (for example obtained from some API)? Well, there is one. Take a look at hm.
• Also from author of Hm, there is awesome project for less experienced Ruby developers. It’s called Let’s Make Something Awesome (LMSA) and the author provides possibility to be mentored by him while creating real life projects. Sound like a great opportunity so be sure to let your friends and colleagues know.
• GraphQL was supposed to dethrone REST for APIs. Well, it did not so far. One of reasons is that it turns out it is quite difficult to write GraphQL servers. But it you want to, there is a tutorial on how to do it using Sinatra.
  • If you just want to start consuming some existing GraphQL APIs, note that I wrote a post about it some time ago.