The document summarizes upcoming May 2016 events for the ATLRUG community, including Rails conferences, civic hack nights, and meetups. It also provides updates on the Ruby and Rails stacks, including new versions released and upgrades to GitHub Pages, as well as past ATLRUG announcements on conferences and Google Summer of Code projects.

1. By Al Snow -- Upstream Rails Developer – al@RailsUpToDate.com
ATLRUG Community Events -
May 2016
● May4-6: Rails Conference in Kansas City: http://www.railsconf.com
● May.9@6:30pm: Civic Hack Night at (new location) Garage Under Tech Square/ Midtown:
See Code-for-America/Atlanta Meetup site for details.
● May.11@6:30pm: ATLRUG Meetup: See ATLRUG Meetup site for details.
● May.18@6:30pm: AIR/Pair Programming: See ATLRUG Meetup site for details.
● May21@7pm: Nerd Club: See ATLRUG Meetup site for details.
● May.24@7pm: Civic Hack Night at ATV: See Code-for-America/Atlanta Meetup Site.
● Jun.4-6: National Day of Civic Hacking 2016 – General Assembly

2. By Al Snow -- Upstream Rails Developer – al@RailsUpToDate.com
Rails Stack General
Announcements – May 2016
● Ruby: New 2.2.5 and 2.3.1p112 versions
– https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/04/26/ruby-2-2
– https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/04/26/ruby-2-3
● Brand new Rails 5.0.0.rc1 & 5.0.0.racecar1
versions:
– Still at Rails 5.0.0.rc1/.racecar1, 4.2.6, 4.1.15,
3.2.22.2
● Note that 4.0.13 was last released in 2014 !!!

3. By Al Snow -- Upstream Rails Developer – al@RailsUpToDate.com
ATLRUG Upgraded
● Now our ATLRUG web site is running Rails
5.0.0.rc1.
– ATLRUG web site was tracking Rails edge, but on
5/10/2016, Rails moved to 5.1.0.alpha so I
downgraded ATLRUG web site to 5.0.0.rc1.

4. By Al Snow -- Upstream Rails Developer – al@RailsUpToDate.com
Rails Stack Upgrade News (1)
● 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
– https://github.com/blog/2151-github-pages-drops-suppo
● Github Pages's Jekyll upgraded to 3.1.4:
– https://github.com/blog/2165-github-pages-to-upgrade-to

5. By Al Snow -- Upstream Rails Developer – al@RailsUpToDate.com
Rails Stack Upgrade News (2)
● Apple fixes Git on Mac X:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3066547/apple-patc
● RubyGem.org bug if you have a gem with “-” in
the name:
– http://blog.rubygems.org/2016/04/06/gem-replacement-
● Security Update for IntelliJ-based IDEs
(RubyMine):
https://dzone.com/articles/security-update-for-intelli

6. By Al Snow -- Upstream Rails Developer – al@RailsUpToDate.com
STOPHERE
● Thanks so much

7. By Al Snow -- Upstream Rails Developer – al@RailsUpToDate.com
ATLRUG Previous
Announcements (1)
●
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

8. By Al Snow -- Upstream Rails Developer – al@RailsUpToDate.com
ATLRUG Previous
Announcements (2)
● 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-langua
● Bash coming to Windows 10 this summer. Microsoft release it
in Fast Ring today (4/6/2016).
● 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

9. By Al Snow -- Upstream Rails Developer – al@RailsUpToDate.com
My Status – April 2016
●
My “Upstream Rails Development Technology” Stats:
– Contributed to two https://coders.forsanders.com projects the last 6 months:
http://www.berniebnb.com and https://connect.berniesanders.com
– Regularly practicing TLC on 85 GitHub/Bitbucket projects (including 15 Rails 5
projects) covering 363 different gems.
– 472 merged pull requests across 47 projects (since my 1st
PR on 12/25/2011)
– Helped 4 (rails, capybara, rspec-rails, 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

10. By Al Snow -- Upstream Rails Developer – al@RailsUpToDate.com
Previous Meeting: 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