The document summarizes announcements from the Atlanta Ruby Users Group (ATLRUG) for December 2016. Key points include: canceled December meetups and RailsConf 2017 call for papers; Ruby and Rails release announcements including Ruby 2.2.6, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, and Rails 5.0.1 releases; and upcoming scholarship programs including Rails Girls Summer of Code and Google Summer of Code.

1. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
ATLRUG Community Events -
December 2016
● Dec/CANCELED: Nerd Club: See ATLRUG Meetup Site
for details.
● Dec/CANCELED: Ruby Hack: See ATLRUG Meetup site
for details.
● RailsConf 2017 (Apr.25-27; Phoenix, AZ) Call For Papers
open until Jan. 20
– http://cfp.rubyconf.org/events/railsconf2017

2. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
Rails-related SOC programs
● Rails Girls Summer of Code Project Submittals are open
until Jan. 31
– http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2016-12-01-rgsoc-201
● Google Code 2016 and Google Summer of
Code 2017
– https://blog.google/topics/education/announcing-google-
– Orgs:
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/11/announcing

3. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
Upstream Rails
Announcements – December 2016
● Ruby 2.2.6, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.4.0-preview3, 2.4.0-
rc1 released
– https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/11/15/ruby-2-2
– https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/11/15/ruby-2-3
– https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/11/21/ruby-2-3
– https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/11/09/ruby-2-4
– https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/12/12/ruby-2-4

4. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
Upstream Rails
Announcements – December 2016
● Big dependency change (9 gems with
warnings): “Ruby 2.4 unifies Fixnum and
Bignum into Integer”
● Needed to add json 2.0.2 to 5 repos with Ruby
2.4.0-rc1.

5. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
Upstream Rails
Announcements – December 2016
● Rails
– jQuery is no longer a dependency of Rails
– 5.0.1.rc1 and 5.0.1.rc2 released.
– 5.1 pre-announcements
● Add system tests
● Replace alias_method_chain
● Yarn, webpack out of the box
● 64-bit default primary keys (BIGINTs)
● Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines (similar to Travis CI) is now
released.
– Note: Ruby 2.4.0-* not available.

6. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
Upstream Rails
Announcements – December 2016
● Remember to contribute:
– 24 Pull Request program open until Dec.24
● Contribute 24 pull requests to open source projects
between Dec. 1-24, 2016
– https://24pullrequests.com
– Ruby Together: Please sponsor common
Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems,
Rubygems.org at:
https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announcing-ru

7. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
That's It
● Thanks so much

8. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
MC Meeting Checklist
●
Introduce Frank and myself.
● Thank sponsors - Pardot, Mailchimp, Frank,
– Venues (Thoughtworks, Tech Square Labs)
●
Announcements/Special Events?
● Companies looking for people?
● People looking for companies?
●
Al's Announcements
● Introduce each speaker.
● 30 minute talks
●
AFTER
– Mention going to bar afterward.
– Clean up Venue/Food afterwards.

9. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
(Old News)
New tab on ATLRUG.com
● New “Community” tab for a “Community and
Giving Back” page on ATLRUG.com.
– Meetings
– Software (Rails, Ruby)
– Gem Monitoring
– Programs
– Training

10. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
General Code Programs
Google Code 2016 and Google Summer of
Code 2017
– https://blog.google/topics/education/announcing-google-
– Orgs:
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/11/announcing
● Rails Girls Summer of Code - Local Team/Final
Status Blog
– http://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog/2016-11-01-team

11. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
RailsConf-Related News
● RailsConf 2017 will be in Phoenix, AZ from
April 25-27, 2017!
● RailsConf 2016 Videos:
http://confreaks.tv/events/railsconf2016
● Ruby Together: Please sponsor common
Ruby/Rails tools, such as Bundler, Rubygems,
Rubygems.org at:
https://rubytogether.org/news/2015-03-17-announc

12. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
(Proposed) New Meetup Group:
SSEA
● Software Security Engineering Atlanta
– Initially Rails focus.
– Keywords: Web/Rails/Ruby/Javascript stack,
Security, hands-on, tools (railsgoat, brakeman,
dawnscanner), pen testing, assembly, C, C++, gdb

13. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.com
ATLRUG Talk Suggestions
● Blade Demo - Testing JavaScript Libraries
● Adding secure_header gem to your project.
● Add hamburger icon to ATLRUG web site.
● Add Bootstrap 4 to ATLRUG web site.
● Using Rails with Window's Bash.
● Rails at a Hackathon – Pros and Cons
● Status on Rails dropping JQuery

14. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.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 season..
● 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

15. By Al Snow -- al@PatchWorkLabs.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 summer 2016. 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