Double Shot #1125

• Sidekiq Pro reaches 1.0! - With a giveaway to let someone win a license.
• Reform - Decouple Your Forms From Your Models - Personally, I prefer coupling, but if it bothers you check this out.
• My Assets Are No Longer Minified in Rails 4: HALP! - What to do about it.
• Journo & Literate CoffeeScript - An example for your perusal (and possible use as a blogging engine).

Double Shot #1124

• nginx security advisory - If you're running 1.3.9 or 1.4.0 you need to update sooner rather than later.
• Phusion Passenger 4.0.2 released - A quick update to fix the nginx vulnerability.
• Discover Meteor - Ebook on this real time Javascript web framework.
• Flat UI Pro - $39 set of components for Bootstrap.
• RailsConf 2013 Talks - With links to videos and slides.
• 10 Years - CSS Zen Garden is 10 years old - and refreshing for the modern web era.
• Chrome Developer Tools: What Is Snippets Support? - A new set of tools for Chrome users.
• Order Issuing Sanctions - A judge kicks some copyright trolls repeatedly, with a Star Trek undertheme.
• Gitdown - Use a breathalyzer to prevent making commits when drunk.
• Spark Inspector - Runtime debugger for iOS applications.

Double Shot #1123

• test-queue - Parallel test runner using a centralized queue and optimized for CI environment.
• Upgrading to Rails 4 - The Railscast.
• Phusion Passenger 4.0.1 final release - With support for all sorts of cutting-edge stuff.

What's New in Edge Rails #66

Weeks of April 22 - May 5, 2013

As I expected, Rails 4.0 RC1 was released last week. And so, now the coverage here is of the new master, which is planned to be Rails 4.1.

• 1ec64297 is the actual tag for 4.0 RC1.
• eebb9ddf touches a lot of code to convert ActiveModel to 1.9 hash syntax.

Double Shot #1122

• Asynchronous IO in Rack Middleware - Some ways to tweak Rack apps for more throughput, if you dare to mess around in thread pools.
• Jekyll 1.0 Released - Thanks to some new blood in the project.
• Crafting Rails Applications - Another book updated for Rails 4.
• Xray - Add an overlay to Rails app indicating which piece was rendered by which partial.
• Exploring Elasticsearch - Free online book.
• Stringer - Self-hosted RSS reader without social features.
• Varnish in Five Acts - How to set up and configure this external cache.