• Jekyll, a blog-aware static site generator, is approaching version 4.0.0. Alpha release is available now and it addresses one of the most painful part of Jekyll: slow render times with many pages. Ruby Tuesday webpage is powered by Jekyll, by the way. Jekyll 4.0.0.pre.alpha1 since today.
• It’s still several months left unitl the release of Ruby 2.7, but we already have one cool feature merged: shorthand syntax for accessing parameters in block a.k.a. numbered parameters This feels to be taken straight from Elixir but it works well there and I think it should work well in ruby too, unless people abuse it. So, goodbye array.map { |elem| my_transformation(elem) }, hello array.map { my_transformation(@1) }!
• Before Amazon started supporting Ruby in its Lambda serverless framework we already had a solution for Ruby: faastRuby. It has not been formotten and is still in active development. Recently, it introduced local environment to test you functions, which should facilitate development a lot.
• If you are an “old” Ruby developer, you might remember Why The Lucky Stiff - “a Ruby artist” as some called him and author of the book “Why’s (poignant) Guide to Ruby”. He went off the grid after someone revealed his identity in 2009. Ten years later, a documentary about his legacy has been published.