Ruby5 #507

Ruby5 - Episode #507 - November 4th, 2014

• Rubinius 2.3.0
  • MRI 2.1 with keyword arguments and other syntax changes that came with Ruby 2.1
• Zopfli-ffi
  • Zlib compatible compression algorithm released by Google last year
  • It can compress things about 10% smaller than normal gzip
  • but it’s 150 times slower to actually compress things
• Benchmarking Middleware
  • determines whether to serve static assets in production for a Rails application
• Enums & Queries in Rails 4.1
  • define enums in our ActiveRecord models
  • It’s nice to have a default way to set simple boolean flags
• Ruby Garbage Collector
  • explain what garbage collection is and how it works
• Hunting for Leaks in Ruby
  • ObjectSpace object. Since Ruby 2.1 this object allows you to make a Heap Dump

♫ Mr.Hanky The Christmas Poo

by SoundHound