After maintaining the memcache-client gem for over two years, Mike Perham wrote Dalli. Dalli is a high performance drop-in replacement for memcache-client, and has been the client of choice for the last two years.

As of Rails 4, ActiveResource has been extracted to a gem named activeresource. Since the extraction, development for ActiveResource has been reinvigorated. A small team, lead by Jeremy Kemper, is now adding new features to ActiveResource.

We at Remarkable Labs really hope you've enjoyed the series, and to finish it off, I wanted to announce that we will be writing an ebook, titled "The Rails 4 Upgrading Guide".

MailCatcher is a ruby gem that runs a local SMTP server on your machine. Any email message sent to this SMTP server will be captured and not sent out. Also, all messages will be viewable in a web interface available at http://localhost:1080.

If you're a Rails developer, you're familiar with with the standard way of sharing data from the controller layer to the view layer. By convention, Rails copies all instance variables defined in the execution of a controller action to the view context. This standard usage will result in strong coupling between your controllers and views, as they are sharing state via instance variables. To solve this problem, Stephen Caudill created the decent_exposure gem ...