Ruby5 #530

https://ruby5.codeschool.com/episodes/568-episode-530-february-24th-2015

• Ruby 1.9.3 is dead
• The life of an HTTP Request in Rails
  • ominiref.com
• Melt
  • allows you to call a #melt method on any frozen object with C Ruby and JRuby
• Traveler
  • Easily distribute your Ruby apps to any Linux and/or OS X
• Different Methods for Merging Ruby Hashes
  • merge vx merge!
  • dup vs Hash#[]
• Why doesn't my code work outside of Rails?
  • Tips for your own monkey-patching
  • My recommendation is to avoid it unless you have an extremely good reason to do so
• StopLight
  • circuit breaker pattern and allows you to disable a block of code if it starts throwing too many exceptions

♫ Bob Dylan - Gotta Travel On

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