1. thoughtbot Ruby Open Source is Ready for Rails 5

    Upgrade all the things!

    Tute Costa

  2. How To Reduce a Large Heroku Slug Size

    How to fix the “Compiled slug size: 500.6M is too large (max is 500M)” error when trying to deploy your Heroku app.

    Dan Croak

  3. Your Program is a Special and Unique Snowflake

    Simplify and clarify your code by carefully choosing abstractions.

    Joe Ferris

  4. Action Mailer and Active Job sitting in a tree...

    Getting started with Action Mailer and Active Job.

    Elle Meredith

  5. My issues with Let

    let can lead to bloat. Be careful.

    Jason Draper

  6. Paperclip IS vulnerable to ImageTragick

    Paperclip is affected by CVE-2016–3714 if used with ImageMagick 7.0.1-0 or earlier.

    Tute Costa

  7. ImageMagick vulnerability does not affect Paperclip

    There is no need to upgrade Paperclip in light of CVE-2016–3714. You may choose to upgrade ImageMagick regardless.

    Tute Costa

  8. Blocks, Procs, and Enumerable

    A look under the hood at how blocks and procs are used in Ruby.

    Joël Quenneville

  9. Maybe Thinking

    By understanding Maybe, you begin to see code in a new light.

    Josh Clayton

  10. Recover Data from Production Backups with ActiveRecord

    Sometimes things go awry with production data and you need to recover. Here’s one way to do it.

    Bernerd Schaefer

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