Episode #626 - March 22nd, 2016

This week, we discuss mastering concurrency; upgrading to Rails 5; custom type-casting with ActiveRecord, Virtus, and dry-types; and Ruby Heroes 2016.

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Mastering Concurrency

Thijs Cadier writes about mastering concurrency with Ruby.

How to Upgrade to Rails 5

Tair Assimov writes about how to upgrade to Rails 5 and why.

Custom Type-casting With ActiveRecord, Virtus, and dry-types

Rails encourages using validations to correct improper data, but why not use type-casting to achieve it? Robert Pankowecki from Arkency shows how to type-cast attributes with the Virtus and dry-types gems.