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#137 - sep 20th 2015

Look

Examples of UI/UX, graphic performance, web design and flashy things.
Signes du quotidien design
Graphic design workshop website (in french).

Use

Web applications, resources and tools, available for making our life easier or funnier.
Railshurts rb
Help developers to stop suffering while they are working with Ruby on Rails.
Notion tool
Expressive and collaborative document editor.
Crab tool
Crab adds SQL to your command line.
Opsdash ops
Self-hosted server and service monitoring.
Reactive Programming with JavaScript js
(book) learn more about react.
React Podcats js
5 episodes already out. A twice-monthly podcast on all things React.

Install

A selection of gems or applications updated during past week.
Jobless rb
jobless - A ruby DSL for generating CVs.
Pastel rb
Terminal output styling with intuitive and clean API, with no monkey patch on String class.
Slackiq rb
Slackiq integrates reporting Sidekiq jobs to Slack.
Pronto rb
Quick automated code review.
OpenSeadragon js
An open-source, web-based viewer for high-resolution zoomable images.
Juiced css3
A Flexbox CSS Framework.
React Native for android mobile
It existed for iOS, now for android.
Detox tool
A chrome extension to make facebook feed positively distracting.
GHraylog 1.2 ops
Over 30 new features and bug fixes.

Read

From the blogosphere or news feeds ...
Tell Don't Ask vs the Web rb
Some opinions about service object design verses Tell Don't Ask principle
N-gram Analysis for Fun and Profit rb
Extract some meaning out of a big collection of text.
Ruby Virtual Machine Internals and Investigating Variable Scope rb
How scopes work under the hood.
Go Testing + Docker go
Avoid dependecies hell by using a container.
3 Steps to Fix Encoding Problems in Ruby rb
What encoding does to a string, and how to fix any issue about it.
Build your own slackbot in go go
What encoding does to a string, and how to fix any issue about it.
How to debug Ruby memory issues rb
Some good tips for debugging and fixing ruby memory issues.
How I Live-Coded My Most-Hearted Pen css3
The step by step adventures of Ana using maths and code to make art.
Deploy Your Rails to OpenShift rb
OpenShift is Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This howto is for putting a rails app on that.
Validating Input in Sass Mixins and Functions css3
Sass has a number of functions that help us validate the input that developers put in to the Sass we write.
What you need to know about Node.js 4.0.0 web
Node 4 was officially released on september 8. Odd numbering, and what are the new features.
We are bad at interviewing developers web
(podcast + transcript) interview with Kerri Miller from LivingSocial.
flexmock 2.0 released rb
flexmock reaches 2.0 back to live again after some hard work.
Build a Face Detection App Using Node.js and OpenCV js
Human beings have an innate ability to detect, process and recognize faces — we’re born with it.
SQL vs NoSQL: The Differences tool
Various aspect for comparison between those 2 data storage solutions.
Links curated by mose (publisher), xenor, tysliu (editors) .

Rant

The random rant of the week by mose.

Join us on Slack

Since we revived our slack channel, there is a small group of people lurking there everyday. Mostly in Taiwan timezone, but we get some guests from the americas as well. The result is that more people suggest links along the way. Thanks Ash and ilake, which brought some links to the present newsletter edition.

So, if you want to join the fun, send a mail to news at greenruby,org to get an invite. It's open, english speaking, friendly and quite geeky.

Looking for puppeteers

Some time ago I wrote a tool that we needed at Gandi for analyzing our hiera params. We have a lot of nodes and farms and datacenters and cascading params. It's sometimes hard to see what overrides what. So recently I released it in a Gem named Hieracles. For now that gem works just fine for us, but I would be curious to see if there is anyone out there with a similar setup that could use it. I would love to make this tool more generic, but there are so many ways do to puppet ... So if you wanna give it a try and need some guidance with it, feel free to poke me.

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.