What's New in Edge Rails #68

Week of May 13 - May 19, 2013

The master code is, as one would expect, in upheaval again. This week featured a big rewrite of callback internals, though I haven't sussed out whether it changes any features in that area.

• 3073c531 adds Minitest 5 compatibility to Rails 4.

Double Shot #1131

• migrating from iPhoto to Dropbox, from feature rich to future proof - I'm starting to think it's time to get off of OS/X. Walled gardens do not attract me.
• New gem released: Futuroscope! - Run selected operations on background threads with very little change to your code.

Double Shot #1130

• Test::Page - Page-oriented integration testing for ruby.
• Upgrading to Sublime Text 3 - Step by step guide to getting on the beta version.
• Introducing ProMotion, a Full-Featured RobyMotion Application Framework - Abstracting screen and navigation handling in a rubylike way.

Double Shot #1129

• How to make a Rubygem - Setting up the basic structure.
• Patching Ruby for Faster Rails Startup, Revisited - Made easier with rvm.
• Curly - Template language that separates logic and structure completely.
• Capybara::Select2 - Helpers to test selects that have been spiffed up with select2.

Double Shot #1128

• nginx, PageSpeed, and Amazon CloudFront - How to speed up static asset serving.
• Gem Activation and You: Part I - Start of a series on how RubyGems works.
• Ruby 1.9.2-p429 is released and Ruby 2.0.0-p195 is released - With a security patch.