The document provides information about upcoming ATLRUG community events in April 2016, including civic hack nights, pair programming events, and nerd club meetings. It also provides announcements about new Ruby and Rails releases, the GitHub Pages decision to standardize markup engines, and Bash coming to Windows 10. The author shares their open source contribution statistics and involvement in political campaigns.

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