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#093 - nov 16th 2014

Edito

This newsletter is sent from Marseille, gonna catch a train back to Paris now.

Look

Examples of UI/UX, graphic performance, web design and flashy things.
Teye design
Graphical presentation of a communication device.
Nerisson design
Very graphical freelance website.

Use

Web applications, resources and tools, available for making our life easier or funnier.
Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord Model Visualizer rb
Draws an image with relationships between rails models.
Crypton js
So the server doesn't know the contents it's storing on behalf of users.
Ocean design
Community of designers sharing feedback..

Install

A selection of gems or applications updated during past week.
Ruby 2.1.5 rb
This is a security release (CVE-2014-8090). Upgrades are also available on 1.9.3 and 2.0.0 branches.
Pakyow rb
Open-source platform for the modern web, like an alternative to rails.
Ru rb
Brings Ruby's expressiveness, cleanliness, and readability to the command line.
Scribble rb
Client facing template language similar to Liquid build in Ruby.
Maxitest rb
Minitest + all the features you always wanted.
ThemesOnRails rb
Adds multi themes support to your Rails 3/4 application.
SlimerJS js
Interact with a web page through an external JS script (for testing, too).
Material ui css3
CSS Framework and a Set of React Components that Implement Google's Material Design.
Rancher ops
Portable AWS-style infrastructure service for Docker.
Bosun ops
An advanced, open-source monitoring and alerting system by Stack Exchange.
Dockership ops
Tool for easily deploying Docker containers to one or multiple Docker servers.
Raigad ops
Process/tool that runs alongside Elasticsearch to automate various things.

Read

From the blogosphere or news feeds ...
Rubinius 3.0 - Part 1: The Rubinius Team nov 10 rb
First article in a serie of 5, published this week, all about rubinius 3.
Fun With the 'method' Method nov 10 rb
Methods as easy as lambdas.
Natural Language Parsing with Ruby nov 11 rb
Using treetop gem.
Making Ruby Faster nov 12 rb
Some of the optimizations going on deep inside the guts of Ruby interpreter.
Prevent MySQL deadlocks in your Rails application nov 13 rb
Some good advices and explanations about deadlocks and how to avoid them.
Clojure Loops in Ruby nov 13 rb
Someone decided to port this new Clojure loop into Ruby, and explains how.
20 Free Data Visualization Tools nov 13 rb
Quite a good list.
AWS EC2 Container Service nov 13 ops
A lot of new things this week at AWS, this is only one of them.
Speed Up JavaScript Capybara Specs nov 14 js
... by Blacklisting URLs.
7 Unique Ways To Practice Your Coding Skills nov 14 tool
Some innovative websites you may already know, or not.
Shorter, simpler code with Forwardable nov 15 rb
And use of the delegate method.

Watch

Screencasts and conferences videos, or other video feeds ...
Web Components - Custom Elements (8m) nov 11 html5
How to work with Custom Elements.
Gorails 32 (17m) nov 14 rb
Markdown and Emoji with the html-pipeline gem.

Listen

What could be heard last week ..
Giant Robots 122 (50m) nov 10 rb
Ruby, the Weird Way (Britt Ballard, Caleb Thompson, Richard Schneeman, Terence Lee)
Ruby5 509 (5m) nov 11 rb
CLI gems, autoload paths, Ruby and Rails releases, static analysis.
TheChangelog 130 (1h05) nov 11 rb
Sidekiq, Inspeqtor and OSS Products With Mike Perham.
RubyRogues 180 (1h15) nov 12 rb
RubyInstaller with Luis Lavena.
Javascript Jabber 133 (53m) nov 12 js
Remote Work with Mike Hostetler.
Arrested Devops 24 (1h06) nov 12 ops
Git 101.
Adventure in angular #16 (54m) nov 13 js
NG 1.3 and 2.0 with Brad Green, Igor Minar, and Miško Hevery.
The Cloudcast #171 (22m) nov 13 ops
Evolving API Economy & Hackathons .
Ruby5 510 (5m) nov 14 rb
Tail call optimizations, keeping migrations healthy, how raptor is faster, psychology of SAAS products,Ru.
Ruby on Rails Podcast 176 (58m) nov 14 rb
Rails Rumble 2014 Solo Winner - Flora Saramago .
NodeUp 76 (1h18) nov 14 js
A structuring applications show.
Links curated by mose (editor).

Green Ruby News was a feed of fresh links of the week about ruby, javascript, webdev, devops, collected by mose, xenor and tysliu every sunday.