Atlanta Ruby Users Group Announcements and Fun Facts for April 2016

1. Fun Fact
Example command: rake 2>&1 |tee o_logfile.txt
● On Linux or Unix systems
● 2: stderr
● 1: stdout
● “2>&1” merges stderr and stdout.
● “tee” command copies stdin to stdout and
makes a copy to output file

2. ATLRUG Community Events -
Apr. 2016
● Apr.11@6:30pm: Civic Hack Night at (new location) Garage Under Tech
Square/ Midtown: See Code-for-America/Atlanta Meetup site
● (NOT ON WEB SITE) Apr.20@6:30pm: AIR/Pair Programming: See ATLRUG
Meetup site
● Apr.21@7pm: Nerd Club: See ATLRUG Meetup site.
● Apr.26@7pm: Civic Hack Night at ATV: See Code-for-America/Atlanta
Meetup Site.
●
May4-6: Rails Conference in Kansas City early bird registration closed on
April 3rd
: http://www.railsconf.com
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Software Technologist

3. ATLRUG General Announcements –
Apr. 2016 (1 of 2)
● Ruby: New 2.1.9 and 2.1.10 versions
– https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/03/30/ruby-2-1-9-released
– https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/04/01/ruby-2-1-10-released
● No change in Rails version:
– Still at Rails 5.0.0.beta3, 4.2.6, 4.1.15, 3.2.22.2
● Note that 4.0.x was last released in 2014.
– Rails 5/RC1 – Not Yet – Rails 5/Final expect to be released
“unknown”.
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Software Technologist

4. ATLRUG General Announcements –
Apr. 2016 (2 of 2)
● GSOC Students announced on 4/22/2016:
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-su
● Rails' GSOC Wiki page:
https://github.com/railsgsoc/ideas/wiki/2016-Ideas
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Software Technologist

5. Rails Stack Upgrade News
● “GitHub Pages is dropping support for the RDiscount, Redcarpet, and
RedCloth (Textile) markup engines on May 1st”
:
https://github.com/blog/2136-a-look-behind-our-decision-to-standardize-on-a-single
● Catch silent API changes: http://inkdroid.org/2016/04/02/follow
● Bash coming to Windows 10 this summer.
– Microsoft release it in Fast Ring today (4/6/2016).
● Solved the problem with running ATLRUG web site code on TravisCI.
– LESSON: Watch for regressions for things that are removed during upgrades.
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Software Technologist

6. My Status – April 2016
● My Rails-related “Software Technology” Stats:
– Contributed to two https://coders.forsanders.com projects the last several
months: http://www.berniebnb.com and https://connect.berniesanders.com
– Regularly practicing TLC on 89 GitHub/Bitbucket projects (including 15 Rails 5
projects) covering 374 different gems.
– 453 merged pull requests across 47 projects (since my 1st
PR on 12/25/2011)
– Helped rails, capybara, rspec-rails, and devise projects with Rails 5 port.
Submitted PR to dawnscanner project for first time.
– Details/Updates:
https://sites.google.com/site/agilerailsexperience/open-source-stats
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Software Technologist

7. ATLRUG Previous
Announcements
● Other Ruby-based conferences: http://planetruby.github.io/calendar
●
Our Emerald City Rails Study Group is not active for 2015-2016.
●
RailsConf 2015 Videos: http://confreaks.tv/events/railsconf2015
– Kylie's talk second most popular at 1357 as of May 11, 2015.
– http://rubylogs.com/railsconf-2015-talks-that-you-should-watch
● RailsConf 2016: Kansas City, MO (May 4-6, 2016) (~12 hour drive from ATL)
●
Rails Girls 2015 SOC: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/5/2/welcome-to-gsoc-15
– 9 ROR/Ruby Google SOC Projects - Search Term: [Rr]uby | [Rr]ails at:
●
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2015
– 16 2015 Rails Girl team pairs selected: http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2015-06-04-2015-teams
●
Results of Rails-related 2015 GSOC: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2015/9/25/gsoc-2015-wrapping-up/
● Interesting Blog: http://readwrite.com/2015/12/11/tech-refugees-aid-organizations
●
Google Hispanic Coding Initiative: http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/21/google-code-as-a-second-language
●
Ruby Together: Please sponsor common Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems, Rubygems.org at:
https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announcing-ruby-together
By Al Snow - al@RailsUpToDate.com - Software Technologist